Friday, September 1, 2017

Linwood Rules and Course Information

Please read all information carefully, and print a copy for your use at the tournament. Since this is a shotgun, there will be no opportunity to explain all of the rules prior to play. If you have any questions, e-mail or call me now.

Important Information
10:00 AM Shotgun. PLAN TO ARRIVE BY 9:00. Put your name on your bag. Leave bag at bag drop. Register at the JustGolf table as soon as you arrive.
• Be at your cart by 9:45.
• Range: Leave your bag on your cart. Take a selection of clubs and walk to the range. You may not take your cart to the range. Range balls are free.
• Siren: If the siren sounds it is mandatory to leave the course immediately.
• Snack shop and restaurant may not be open. Please bring your own snacks
• Cart rules: Carts may be driven anywhere except near tees and greens. Exit fairways at signs. Do not ride over curbs. Stay on cart path from green to tee.
• Bathrooms located in the snack shop (accessible from holes 10, 11, and 13) and in the clubhouse.
• If you pick up you will be WD from the championship, but will continue to compete in the BB. Record an X plus your most likely score (e.g., X-6).
• You may give advice to your partner.
• Environmentally sensitive areas are marked by signs and red lines on holes #7, 8, and 11. DO NOT ENTER TO RETRIEVE OR HIT YOUR BALL. Drop within two club-lengths of margin no closer to hole and add one penalty stroke to your score.
• If your partner arrives late, he may join you between holes.
• Starter will announce whether to play the ball down or use preferred lies.

Scorecards
• Record GROSS SCORE for each player. If you pick up, record X plus your most likely score (I must have a number so that I can post your score).
• Write GROSS scores on the first two lines only. You may record your own scores on the bottom two lines of the scorecard (between “Par” and “Silver”).
• Record BETTER BALL NET score on the third line (labeled “BB Net”).
• Write in pencil only, and use an eraser to make corrections. I will probably not be able to score at the tournament – your scorecard must be legible.
• Please add your individual scores and your better ball net scores. Record your scores on the scoreboard (in pencil, please).
• Review and sign your card. If there are any errors, I will call you. You will not be DQ’d for an incorrect scorecard – we will correct errors on the phone.
DO NOT POST YOUR SCORE. I WILL POST THE SCORES.

Local Rules
Out of bounds: Parking lot area; fence along holes 4, 9, and 11; driving range; curbing around staging area of carts and around 10th green. You must return to where you hit your previous shot and add one penalty stroke to your score.
OB fences: No free relief from OB fence (If unplayable, add a one-stroke penalty and drop within two club-lengths or return to previous spot and hit again.)
Waste bunkers: Defined by green stakes. You may ground your club.
Stones in bunkers: Loose impediments; you may remove any near your ball.
Hazards: defined by outer edge of rocks (the rocks are in the hazard), yellow lines (water hazard), and red lines (lateral water hazard).
All meadows are environmentally sensitive lateral hazards. No play permitted. One-stroke penalty and drop within two club-lengths or replay from original spot.
Please rake bunkers, repair ball marks, and fill divots with sand.

Course Information
Tees: White tees for men; Silver tees for seniors; Green tees for women
Yardage markers: Red, white, and blue raised disks in the middle of the fairway; many sprinkler heads. All yardage measured to center of green.
Hole location: Flags – Red (front), White (middle), Yellow (back).

Hole 2: Dogleg left.
Holes 7, 8, and 11: Red-lined areas are environmentally sensitive. Do not enter. Drop within two club-lengths of the hazard margin, no closer to the hole, and add one penalty stroke to your score.
Hole 7: A ball may not be played from an environmentally sensitive area, but you may stand in the area to play a ball outside the area.
Distance to water: 335 (White); 210 (Green). After your tee shot, markers have two numbers: distance to water and distance to center of green.
After #7: Men turn right onto dirt path; women turn left onto paved cart path.
Hole 9: Range is out of bounds; no free relief from fence (if unplayable, one-stroke penalty and drop within 2 club-lengths no closer to hole or replay from original spot).
Hole 11: 150 yards to carry hazard from White tees. Drop area for men is near women’s tee box. Green slopes left to right.
Hole 12: Water crosses the fairway. After tee shot, markers have two numbers: distance to water and distance to center of green
Hole 13: Dogleg right. 170 from Green tee to second bunker on left.
Hole 18: Dogleg right. Distance to right bunker: 165 (White); 140 (Green).