Northern California Golf Association

NCGA Senior Championship Qualifying

Player Information Sheet

Baylands Golf Links

August 20, 2020

 

Club Information:

Baylands GL

1875 Embarcadero Rd

Palo Alto, CA 94303

Phone: 650-856-0881

Website: www.baylandsgolflinks.com

 

PLEASE REVIEW: COVID-19 TOURNAMENT SAFETY POLICIES

Note: Masks are required around the clubhouse area.

 

Note: There will be no spectators or caddies allowed on the course or around the clubhouse. We will not be allowing any congregating or loitering around the clubhouse or practice areas and you will be asked to go to your car if seen.

 

IMPORTANT: All participants will be required to sign a waiver in order to play at Baylands Golf Links. You may sign, scan, and email the waiver to hwhitbeck@ncga.org or Ewiniecki@baylandsgolflinks.com or you may sign and bring to the course on the day of and give to the starter at the first tee. You may NOT play unless you have turned in a signed waiver. CLICK HERE for waiver.

 

Format:

18 holes stroke play.  Contestants will play from the Black (“Tournament”) tees. Qualifiers will advance to the Championship proper at Poppy Hills on September 23 -25, 2020. The number of spots available at each qualifying site will be determined based on the total number of entrants and the final field at each site. Final number of spots will be available from the Committee on the day of qualifying.

 

Competition Schedule:

7:57 AM off tee 1. Players should be at their assigned tee immediately following the group in front of them. Please do not congregate near the first tee. Pairings will be posted Thursday, August 13th.

 

Practice Round Information:

Practice rounds must be booked online in advance. Please contact the course for the most up to date rate information.

 

Local Rules / Hole Locations / Scorecards:

All paperwork will be available for players ONLINE linked below on or before August 19th:

No paper materials will be provided or available on site.

 

Food and Beverage Availability:

The Restaurant is open for To-Go orders with CREDIT CARD ONLY . Food may be purchased at the entry and tables are set up outside in the patio area for consumption. Water coolers will not be available on property, please be prepared to provide for your own water and food needs by supplying your own or purchasing from the restaurant.


 

Practice Facilities:

The driving range is open and spaced for safe distancing. One small bucket of range balls is included for tournament participants, check in at a table located near the range. Players are only allowed to show up to practice 30 minutes before their starting time. Please do not use the practice greens prior to 20 minutes before your starting time.

 

Player Cart Information:

Golf carts are optional at the player’s expense. Golf carts are limited to one rider per cart, meaning there are a limited amount of carts and purchase will be based on availability. Spectator carts are prohibited. 

 

Caddie Information:

Caddies are NOT permitted at this time.

 

Additional Information: 

Prior to the first day of the event, you must make yourself familiar with the Player Handbook, Hard Card and 

Pace of Play Policy.  You, the player, are responsible for knowing this information.

 

Scoring: Players are expected to download the USGA TM app (or Golf Genius). This GGID will be texted to each player and available with the starter.

  • Within the group, players should enter scores for one other player. If someone does not have a phone available, players must ensure at least one player in the group is entering scores.

  • At the end of the round, all players in the group must confirm hole-by-hole scores posted online are correct. This can be done using the Leaderboard in the app or online in this event portal.

  • Any issues with scores after leaving your group must be communicated to staff via text, call or email no later than one hour after the final group has entered the 18th hole scores. After that time, the scorecard is treated as officially returned and certified. Staff contact information is available in the Notice to Players linked above.

  • For guidance using the Mobile Scoring App, please see this training video.

 

Code of Conduct – Flagstick: The flagstick must not be moved or deliberately touched by hand during the round, including with a gloved hand or a towel wrapped around the flagstick. Any player who deliberately ignores this code of conduct policy will be considered guilty of Serious Misconduct (see Rule 1.2b), the penalty for which is Disqualification.

 

Holing Out: Baylands Golf Links has installed a liner insert which allows the ball to fall into the hole part way, while making the ball easily retrievable to minimize shared contact points. The device is treated as part of the flagstick, and if any part of the ball is below the surface of the putting green and is resting on that device or leaning against the flagstick, the ball is treated as holed. However, a ball that hits the device and does not come to rest with any part of the ball within the hole below the surface of the putting green is not holed.

 

Preferred Lies in Bunker: When a player’s ball lies in a bunker, the player may take free relief once by placing the original ball or another ball in and playing it from this relief area:

  • Reference Point: Spot of the original ball

  • Size of Relief Area Measured from Reference Point: One club-length from the reference point, but with these limits:

  • Limits on Location of Relief Area:

    • Must not be nearer the hole than the reference point, and

    • Must be in the same bunker.

In proceeding under this Local Rule, the player must choose a spot to place the ball and use the procedures for replacing a ball under Rule 14.2b(2) and 14.2e.
 

 

Deciding Ties: All ties for the final qualifying spots and/or position of alternates will be broken by the USGA recommended method of matching scorecards (Committee Procedures, Section 5A(6)).