Please read and print for reference
on the course.
Local Rules
• Preferred lies on closely-mown areas:
mark, clean, place within 12 inches.
• Please repair ball marks, replace
divots (use divot mix if divot not intact), and rake bunkers.
• Out of Bounds is marked by fences,
white lines, or stakes.
• Blue Octagon caps are immovable
obstructions (free drop within one club-length of the nearest point of relief,
no closer to the hole).
• Drive carts on fairways and first
cut of rough only. Do not drive on deep rough or on mounds. On Hole #7 you may
drive through the sandy waste area.
• If your ball strikes a telephone
pole, play it as it lies.
• If your ball strikes a telephone line
(wire), you must replay the shot.
• Hole location: green (front), white
(middle), orange (back).
General Information
• This is a team net and gross
tournament. Men will
play the standard White tees (69.2/123) or the forward Gold tees (65.1/114).
Women will play the Red tees (68.9/117).
• Return
scorecard with two signatures in person to the official scorer. All four players must submit the two scorecards to the scorer at
the same time and wait until the cards have been reviewed.
• Arrive
at the first tee ten minutes before your tee time. Practice putting green
is located near first tee.
• Maintain a good pace of play. Keep up
with the players in front.
• $2 of your tournament fee will be used
to tip the bag handlers.
• Applications for the
Championship/Better Ball at Linwood (Thursday, September 7) will be available
at the registrar’s table.
Format
• Scramble, holes #1-6. Both players tee off. Select the shot
you want to play, and both players hit from that spot. Continue in this manner
until the ball is holed. Once the ball is holed your score is official, so be
sure to mark your ball on the green if your partner has not yet putted.
After you
decide which shot you will play, mark the spot with a tee or ball marker. Each
player must place the ball within 12” of that tee no closer to the hole and
play his next shot. YOU MAY NOT USE THE 12” TO IMPROVE YOUR CONDITION (stay in
the rough, in a bunker, behind a tree, OB, etc.).
• Better ball, holes #7-12. Each competitor plays his own ball.
Record both gross scores unless you pick up because you are out of a
hole (strongly recommended). Record X if you pick up.
Preferred
lies in closely-mown areas – mark, clean, place within 12 inches, no closer to
hole.
• Selected drive–alternate shot,
holes #13-18. Both
partners tee off. Select which drive you will play, and alternate hitting that
ball to the hole. If you select A’s drive, then B will hit the next shot, A
will hit the third shot, etc. Note: You MAY NOT switch balls to play
your own preferred brand, including for putting. Preferred lies in closely-mown
areas – mark, clean, place within 12 inches, no closer to hole.
• Disqualification: If you play the wrong format on any
hole the team will be disqualified. The format for each six holes is noted on
your scorecard. Signs on the seventh and thirteenth holes will remind you of
the format.
• Time of starting: If your partner is late, you must
start without him at your assigned tee time. Your partner may join you as late
as the start of Hole #13. If you have begun play of a hole, your partner will
begin play at the start of the next hole.
Course Information
• Bathrooms (portables) located on
holes 6, 8, and 14.
• All barber poles mark center line
of fairway – good aim point.
#3:
Yellow-staked hazard on right has a path running through it. If your ball
enters from the back, it is in a water hazard; if it enters from the side, it
is in a lateral water hazard.
#4: Fence
around white shed and silo is an out-of-bounds fence. No free relief. Drop
within two club-lengths, no closer to hole, add a one-stroke penalty.
#6: Note the
sign to the left of the White tee box indicating 231 yards to water hazard.
From the Red tee box, 185 yards to water. There is no water in the part of the
hazard at the end of the fairway, and the area is mowed. If you hit your ball
into the section of hazard to the right of the fairway, the grasses are high
and you will more than likely need to take relief (one-stroke penalty, Rule
26-1).
There is a red-staked hazard
(lateral) behind the green.
#7: From Red
tee, the hole is a dogleg left.
From White tee, two choices: aim at
either of the two 150-yard posts. You may drive your cart through the sandy
waste area.
#11: Aim right of the tower. The pole is 100 yards from green. Suggestion:
One person tees off and drives immediately to fairway to spot everyone else’s
tee shot.
The hazard behind the green is marked
with yellow stakes; they should be red. Treat it as a lateral hazard.
#13: You may not use the drop area next to the
green. Drop within two club-lengths of where your ball last crossed the margin of the hazard – one-stroke penalty.
The fence behind the hole is an OB
fence. No free relief. Drop within two club-lengths, no closer to hole;
one-stroke penalty.
#15: Sharp
dogleg right. If your tee shot lands anywhere on the fairway between the
100-yard marker and the end of the fairway, you will have a clear shot to the
green.
