Notice to Players

 

Note: This information supplements the information contained in the USGA Rules of Golf and NCAA Hard Card

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

FORMAT OF PLAY: Stroke play, 36 holes.

1. Team: Lowest four (4) scores out of five (5).
2. Individual Medalist: Lowest individual 36-hole score total.

 

TEES:

All play is from the BLUE tee markers.

 

 

1. OUT OF BOUNDS defined by:
   1. The inside points, at ground level, of white stakes.
   2. Boundaries can be found on holes #8, 9, 10, 13, and 18.

 

2. GROUND UNDER REPAIR defined by:
   1. Enclosed white lines
   2. French drains
   3. Vehicle wheel ruts
   4. Animal diggings (crows, skunks, etc.)
   5. Newly seeded area on the right side of hole #6

 

3. NO PLAY ZONES -FLOWERBEDS:
   1. Flowerbeds are no play zones, to be treated as abnormal course conditions.  Free relief must be taken under Rule 16.1f.
   2. Exception, hole #6: the mulched area on the right side of hole #6 is not considered to be a flowerbed; the ball must be played as it lies.

 

4. IMMOVABLE OBSTRUCTIONS:
   1. All paths and roads, whether artificially surfaced or not, are immovable obstructions.  Vehicle damage and wear adjacent to the paths are considered to be part of the same immovable obstruction.
   2. Stone walls are immovable obstructions.

 

5. BALL DEFLECTED BY POWER LINE:
   1. If it is known or virtually certain that a player’s ball hit a power line (or tower or a wire or pole supporting a power line), the player must replay the stroke by playing the original ball or another ball from the spot that stroke was made.
      1. If the player replays the stroke but does so from a wrong place they get the general penalty under Rule 14.7a.
      2. If the player does not replay the stroke, they get the general penalty and the stroke counts, but the player has not played from a wrong place.

                                                                                                                                                                                  

SCORING AREA:

The scoring area is located on deck outside of golf shop and is defined by table and chairs  A player has left the

scoring area when he has stepped outside the defined area with both feet.

 

CART RULES:

Carts are prohibited for players, coaches, and spectators.

 

 

Tournament Committee/Officials

 

             Coach Jay Durfee, PGA, (Bowdoin) 781-738-9499

George Pendergast (Tufts), Brian Bickford, PGA (USM)