2021 LMGA Club Championship Rules and Information

 

All players (except Super Sr) are eligible for the 2021 Club Champion. Players that are 55+ are eligible for the Sr Club Champion. If a Sr has the best gross score for the 2 days they will be crowned the 2021 Club Champion. After registration closes, players 55+ must select either Club Champion division or Seroir Champion division. 

For the IGA Tournament of Champions if a Sr wins the overall club championship and decides to play in the Sr division for the IGA event, we will select the lowest gross under 55 to represent Lakeview in the Men’s division of the IGA Tournament of Champions. If a Sr wins the overall club championship and chooses to play in the Men’s division for the IGA event we will then select the next lowest Sr gross score to represent Lakeview in the IGA Sr division of the Tournament of Champions.  

All players will play from the Club Champion tees. 5 days prior to the club championship we will roughly mark the Club Champion tee boxes.  

Super Sr Division will play from the forward red tees 

Calcutta Rules for Club Championship

Auction applies to Sunday Round Only

Players sold by flight w/10% of pot going to Seated Swing Open benefiting Andrew Richard

Bidders must register for a Bid number prior to auction

Buyers MUST pay Saturday and only at the end of auction. CASH or CARD accepted

Whoever buys a player is responsible for payment

Payouts will be by flights: 35% for Low Gross and Low Net; 15% for 2nd Low Gross and Low Net. Sunday’s rounds only. Payouts may be modified for smaller flights.

Players do NOT automatically have a right to buy ½ of team. Strictly up to the buyer to decide.

Disbursement of money will be done the following Tuesday.

 

RULES

Fairways have been marked for free relief. If it is not marked, play it as it lies. Marked as GUR or Cones or little sprinkler flags.

No Root Rule - Play it as it lies.

 

Hazards

Hazards have been marked: Red Stakes and Yellow Stakes 

No Drop zone on #4 play as a lateral hazard!

See below for how to play Water Hazards. 

 

Out of Bounds: Defined by white stakes: Stroke and Distance

If your ball is definitely out of bounds, you must play another ball from where you last played under penalty of stroke and distance (Rule 14.6), whether from the tee or fairway. So if it was your tee-shot that had gone OOB, you would now be playing three off the tee.

A ball is in bounds when any part of the ball: 

  • Lies on or touches the ground or anything else (such as any natural or artificial object) inside the boundary edge, or

  • Is above the boundary edge or any other part of the course.

Where out of bounds is defined by white stakes or a fence, the out of bounds line is the nearest inside points at ground level of the stakes or fence posts.

When a line on the ground is used, the line itself is out of bounds. However, a ball is deemed in bounds still even if only a small part of it lies on the course side of the boundary line.

If white stakes are used at intervals, the out of bounds line is the direct line from one stake to the next.

 

Clarifications on Out of Bounds:

If a ball crosses the OB but ends up resting back in the field of play it is not OB. For Instance, if a ball on 18 hits the maintenance shed and comes back into play it is not out of bounds. Another situation: Your ball on 17 flies OB long, bounces off the road and it is on the 18 tee box. That is OB and you must re-tee. 

 

 

Water Hazards Marked with Yellow Stakes

The first thing to do after you’ve hit your ball into the water (assuming you aren’t going to try and play it), is to take a one-shot penalty. After you’ve done that, you have three options:

Option 1:

Play your next shot by dropping a ball nearest to the point where your last stroke was played. If you’re on the tee box, you have the option to re-tee.

Option 2:

Identify the spot where your ball last crossed the water hazard and drop as far back as you want in between that spot and the pin. (Remember it’s not where your shot ended up in the hazard, it’s where it last crossed).

Option 3:

Go to the designated drop zone. If the golf course hasn’t set aside an area for this, you must go with Option 1 or Option 2.

Water Hazards Marked with Red Stakes

These are referred to as lateral hazards and the rules for dropping are a bit different. The same one-shot penalty must be added to your score. Same options as Yellow PLUS you have the option to drop within two club lengths of the point where your ball crossed into the hazard.