Coastal Carolina Amateur Golf Club
2011 Local Rules

 

 

Event Registration

• Event payments are due 7 days in advance of Event
• Tournament Awards on Account can be used to fund event fee’s
• Players paid prior to event are guaranteed spot in field.
• Late entries available based upon availability and must be paid via PayPal at time of entry.

 

Day of Event

·       All Players must check-in 15 minutes prior to 1^st Tee Time

·       Cash only for Players Paying for Event on Day of Event

·       Checks accepted for future Events made payable to Pat Jones - CCAGC

·       Cash for CTP and Net Skins if not Prepaid.

·       Credit or Debit cards NOT accepted on day of event.

 

Pace of Play

• Play Ready Golf in All Groups regardless of format.
• Each Foursome will have be assigned as Captain and usually will be the CCAGC member with the most seniority (years as CCAGC Member)
• Foursome Captain will be responsible for monitoring pace of play for group and let players know if they are playing slow and need to pick up the pace.
• Foursome Captain will be responsible for notating actual time foursome tee’s off (1^st player to Tee off) and actual time last member of group holes out on last hole.
• Foursome Captain to ensure all scorecards are complete, totaled, signed and attested with net birdies or better circled and Turned in to CCAGC Director.
• Pace of Play Penalty (To entire Foursome) will only be applied if
• Foursome turns in all 4 scorecards more than 20 minutes from group ahead of them AND …
• Foursome plays 18 holes in more than 4 hours and 45 minutes.
• Each Player will receive 1 warning without penalty, thereafter Penalty is 1 stroke (2^nd Offense), 2 strokes (3^rd offense) and DQ (4^th Offense)

 

Senior / Forward Tee Usage / Eligibility

 

For the 2011 season, the eligibility of players able to play the forward or senior tee’s will change.

The criteria for 2011 will be based upon Age and Player Index (used for CCAGC Events).

The formula to determine eligibility is:

Event Index + (age - 50, but not less than zero) > or = 18 will be eligible to play the forward tees (though not required).

 

 

Local Rules

 

Currently the following local rules are applicable for CCAGC events

• Double Net Par Max per Hole
• Embedded Ball (in own pitch mark) through the green
• Use Drop Area’s where provided
• Free Relief (1 Club Length, from Nearest Point of Relief, No Closer to Hole)

§  Landscaped Flower Beds

§  Tree’s that are Staked with Ropes

§  Newly Laid Grass SOD (doormat, burnt out or green)

§  Ground Under Repair (Not Marked)

o   Tire Tracks (fairway & Immediate Rough before Tree Line)

o   Area where man made holes or digging has occurred

o   Hard Pan, bare surfaces are not considered GUR

 

• Sand Traps or Waste Bunkers (NEW wording for 2011)

o   If your ball lay in a Footprint or an area in the sand trap where rain has washed out the side area and left gapping ruts, you can take relief (nearest point within the Hazard) no Closer to Hole. If No Closer to hole is not available, then by Consensus of Foursome a drop closer to the hole will be allowed. If you take a drop outside the bunker, it is to be played as an unplayable lie.

o   Relief is taken by Lift, Rake and Roll and not a DROP or Placement of the ball.

o   Water Filled Sand Traps is the exception to the above. In cases where rain has completely filled the sand trap and no relief within the Sand trap is available, even closer to the hole, then a free drop 2 club lengths from entry point, no closer to the hole.

 

New Additions to our Local Rules for 2011

• Free relief when ball within a divot whether the divot has been replaced or not, filled with sand or not, within your own fairway
• Free relief when tree root presents a danger to the golfers physical well being due to root effecting the normal swing path for the shot and when the root is within the “TREE Line” of the fairway. A majority of the group must agree to this before relief can be taken,

 

General Rule for Lift Clean & Place vs Playing the ball DOWN

 

When it’s CART PATH only the event will play LIFT, CLEAN & PLACE within 1 club length, no closer to hole within your own FAIRWAY. Otherwise the ball will be played DOWN. The club does not have a “MUD” rule. The only relief is if we are playing lift clean and place or your in casual water.

On RARE occasions will we play Lift Clean and Place “THROUGH THE GREEN” Those will be announced at event check-in should that occur.

 

Handicaps

 

• All Members Must Maintain Index with USGA Approved Handicap Service
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• All Members with a Minimum of 5 tournament scores with the CCAGC will have a CCAGC Club Index.
• Each Past Member will use scores from 2010 CCAGC events and current year events to calculate their CCAGC Index.
• Members whose Club index is lower than their USGA index will use the Club Index for CCAGC Events.
• Guests or Members not having played a minimum of 5 rounds with the CCAGC will play to 90% of their USGA index
• CCAGC will track Posted scores per the ESC guidelines set forth by the USGA

 

 

CCAGC Club Index will Follow USGA Guidelines for Calc Index

Table below determines how many rounds to use in calc when less than 20 scores are available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Handicap Monitoring

o   Players Not Positing scores in last 30 days will be assessed at 10% Reduction

o   Players Not Posting Scores in Last 60 Days will be assessed a 20% Reduction

o   Players Not Posting Scores in Last 90 Days will be assessed a 50% Reduction

o   Players not posting all played (through Hdcp Date) CCAGC Tournament scores will be assessed a 10% reduction