FIVE PACE OF PLAY TIPS
Ø “No snails welcome”! In addition to the rules and etiquette tips above, keeping up the pace of play is critical to the enjoyment of your game and those in groups behind you on the course. Watch the group ahead and keep them in sight and within one shot of your group.
Ø Play ready golf! When you arrive at the tee, get out of the cart, select your club and be ready to hit. On the course, think about your next shot and what club you’ll need. If someone is ready to hit while waiting for you to look for a ball or select a club, let them go ahead and hit if it’s safe to do so.
Ø “Respect the flag”! On the green, help each other out by attending the flag—the one with the putt closest to the hole should attend for those further out. The first one to putt out should pick up the flag and get ready to replace it once the last golfer finishes putting.
Ø “Don’t dawdle”! Leave the green area promptly after putting out while making sure no one has left any clubs on or near the green. Record your scores on the next tee. This is especially critical if the group behind you is waiting to approach the green.
Ø “Drive ‘go’ carts”! Help each other by ensuring that carts keep up with the pace of play. On “cart path only holes” work with others in the group to keep things moving. If you’re unsure of your yardage, take at least 3 clubs with you—the club you think you’ll need plus one more and one less.
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MountainView and The Preserve Women’s Golf Association Revised July 1, 2008 MEMBERSHIP HANDICAP REQUIREMENTS: 1. Prospective members shall have an established USGA Handicap Index. If a prospective member does not have a current USGA Index, she must establish a handicap by submitting five 18-hole score cards from a rated course, properly attested and dated within the previous twelve months, to the Handicap Chair. If the player already has a USGA handicap from another course it may be transferred into the MountainView system. The USGA system issues official handicaps on the first and the fifteenth of every month.
2.
Handicap services will not be provided for a woman who is not a
SaddleBrooke property owner or who has not executed a contract (House
Contract) to purchase a lot and house from SaddleBrooke Development
Company (SDC). TOURNAMENT PLAY: 1. USGA procedures will govern rules of play and handicaps. 2. A player must be a paid member of MPWGA in good standing with an established AWGA 18-hole handicap, to be eligible for competition on official play days. Maximum course handicap for weekly play days is 40. Maximum course handicap for a major tournament is 36. 3. All players must check in at the Pro Shop at least 20 minutes prior to tee times. 4. Weekly Sign-up: a. Sign-up is available fourteen (14) days in advance of Tuesday play day. The sign-up deadline is five (5) days in advance (Thursday, 12 noon). b. A minimum of twelve (12) players must complete play in order to constitute a field in which sweeps will be paid on a scheduled Tuesday play day. The field of play may be divided into flights according to handicaps. The Tournament Chair and her committee will set the range. c. Pairings will be determined by the Tournament Chair and her committee. d. Scheduled Tuesday play days are for MPWGA members only.
e.
A
member will sign up with the intention of participating in the game of
the day. 5. Cancellation of any tournament is at the discretion of the Tournament Chair and/or the Pro Shop. 6. One score card per group must be completed and attested by all players in that group and turned in to the Tournament Chair unless otherwise indicated. 7. Each player is responsible for the correct usage of her handicap, attesting her own score, adjusting her own score, and posting her adjusted score in the computer within forty-eight (48) hours of the event. If a player does not post her score by 2 PM on the Thursday following Tuesday play day, winnings will not be awarded to that player. 8. Slow Play: Rule 6-7 of the “Rules of Golf” states: “The player shall play without undue delay.” The Rules Committee does not wish to assess penalties for undue delay. However, in consideration of all concerned, the pace of play must be reasonable. A group will be considered out of position when it falls behind more than one hole greater than its starting interval and/or averages more than thirteen (13) minutes per hole. 9. Penalties: a. A penalty score may be assessed if you fail to post your play day score within forty-eight (48) hours. b. It is each player’s responsibility to post her scores. Penalties will be assessed for chronic violators who post incorrect scores and/or those who fail to adjust their scores.
c. Attested scorecards may be requested by the Handicap Committee for
anyone incurring a penalty.
10.
Use
of “distance only” measuring devices will be allowed on Tuesday Play
Days. MAJOR TOURNAMENTS: 1. Club Championship: A two-day gross score tournament. Participants must play both days. Scores must be posted with a “T”. 2. President’s Cup: A two-day low net score tournament. Participants must play both days. Scores must be posted with a “T”. To be eligible to play in a major tournament a member must have played and posted eight (8) previous MPWGA play day events within the previous twelve months to the entry date of the tournament. If a play day event is canceled, a player will receive credit toward this play day requirement. If a player withdraws or is disqualified during the first day of a two-day tournament, she will not be eligible to play the second day.
OTHER TOURNAMENTS: 1. Ace of the Month/Year: A monthly event to determine low gross and low net winners. Monthly Ace winners are limited to one win in low gross and one win in low net events from April thru March. A playoff among the monthly winners will determine the yearly winners. 2. AWGA State Medallion: State medallion winners (low gross/low net) will have the opportunity to play in the AWGA statewide tournament. To be eligible, two out of four qualifying rounds must be played. Gross supersedes net. The fees for playing in the AWGA State Medallion will be paid by the Association.
OUTSIDE EVENTS/TOURNAMENTS: In the interests of ensuring equitable opportunities for our active members wishing to participate in the Catalina and Ironwood Cup Leagues, Kachina, and the Robson Challenge, the following new policy, approved by the MPWGA Board, will be applied beginning with the 2008-9 season: 1. League/Event Captains will release the event schedules, when available, for all four leagues/events. These schedules will be posted on our website and in the posting room at MountainView. Any specific requirements such as handicap limitations will also be posted along with the schedule. 2. The new eligibility criteria for selection requires that members must play in a minimum of eight (8) Tuesday play days in the 12 months prior to the specific match/event they are signing up for. The Handicap committee will record and track completed playdays for all members during the year. a. Members are encouraged to compare event/league schedules with their calendars to determine their availability and qualification for each match prior to signing up. b. Note: If a member is also a member of another AWGA golf club, she must designate which club she will represent for league play. E.g. she can’t play for two different clubs in two separate matches. c. For Catalina and Ironwood Cup leagues, members should be comfortable and familiar with match play rules and strategies or obtain that information prior to signing up for any matches. 2. The Captains will compare the signup list for each individual event with the playday participant records for the previous twelve months and remove any member from the list not meeting the playday requirement. a. Note: If a member realizes that she will not be able to meet either the playday or handicap requirements for a specific event, she should take responsibility to remove herself from that signup list. b. The Captains will divide the remaining names into handicap groupings dictated by the respective events, if appropriate. She will then do a random draw within each handicap grouping to select the two-person A, B, and C teams Captains will also randomly select an alternate for each handicap range, when applicable, to use as a substitute in the event of a cancellation. c. For Kachina events, all signups must include a check for the event entry fee. The Captain will draw enough eligible names to meet our allotment for each particular event using the 36-handicap limit as a cut-off point. All names and checks are sent to the host club which uses however many players they need to fill the field. The names and checks of signups not chosen will be sent in as alternates. Anyone not selected for the event will have her check destroyed on the Kachina play day. 3. The Captains will notify the selected team members via email and confirm their availability as soon as the selections are made. If a selected team member is unavailable, she will contact an alternate. 4. The Captains will maintain a record of event participants. She will also reserve the right to modify her selections based on a member’s history of participation. The Captain will also reserve the right to recruit players, as needed, to meet the needs of the particular match or event.
AWARDS: 1. Breaking 100, 90, 80, 70 or Eagles: Members will be recognized for breaking 100, 90, 80 or 70 on a Tuesday stroke play day or in a sanctioned tournament, for the first time. They will be given a “Break Pin”. Eagles will be recognized with an “Eagle Pin”. Members are responsible for notifying the Tournament Chair. (You must putt out, no pick-ups allowed, you must post.) 2. Most Improved Player: The method for determining MountainView/The Preserve Women’s Golf Association (MPWGA) Most Improved Player shall be the Most Improved Player (MIP) computations submitted by Arizona Handicap Network (AZHN) at the end of the year beginning January 1 through December 31. To be eligible a Player must be a paid member of MPWGA for the entire year January 1 through December 31 and she must have played and posted 12 MPWGA Play Day Events on MountainView Golf Course and/or The Preserve Golf Course within the year. She also must have played a total of 48 or more attested rounds on MountainView Golf Course and/or The Preserve Golf Course (including the 12 MPWGA Play Day Events) during the year. 3. Ringer: Members will be recognized for The Preserve and MountainView courses at the end of the year for improving their gross score on each hole over a given period of time. 4. Chip-Ins and Birdies: Members will be recognized for their accumulated per-hole Birdies and Chip-ins on our regular play day or in a sanctioned tournament. These games must be posted. 5. Hole-in-One: A member making a Hole-in-One from regulation tees on a play day or in a major tournament will receive a check for $75.00. 6. Awards Clarification: If disqualified for some infraction of USGA Rules of Golf, no award will be given for Chip-ins, Birdies, Eagles, Hole-in-Ones or Break-pins, during a sanctioned event. However, if a player withdraws from the game of the day, the above awards will be recognized if the score for that event is posted. Any exception must be pre-approved by the Board and communicated to the participants.
COMMUNICATIONS BASICS: 1. The major means of communicating with the members is by the MPWGA Website: http://www.mountainviewwga.com. Regular emails to the members are used to communicate important information regarding tournaments, deadlines, President’s Message, and any other information needing immediate attention. 2. The primary method for posting scores is using the computer in the Scoring Room at MountainView or at The Preserve. Scores may be posted via the website from your personal computer. 3. The Scoring Room at MountainView has a bulletin board and a notebook for all MPWGA events for those members who cannot access the Internet. HANDICAP BASICS: 1. Know your USGA handicap index. You will get an update index on the 1st and 15th of each month. To figure the number of strokes you receive from your handicap, you start with your USGA index. Your index helps you determine the number of strokes you will receive, no matter where you play or which set of tees you use. USGA handicap indexes travel well and make the handicaps fair. 2. Check the Course Handicap Table for the appropriate Slope Rating to determine the number of strokes you receive. 3. Determine how many strokes you receive for the game you are playing. Apply the handicap allowance for the type of game you are playing. Check your scorecard to find where you receive your strokes. Each hole has a handicap allocation number. In match play, if your opponent is a fifteen (15) handicap and you are a twenty-five (25) handicap, you will receive ten (10) strokes on the lowest number holes, i.e. the holes with the handicap numbers 1 through 10.
4. Adjust your score properly for handicap and posting purposes. POST THESE SCORES: 1. Post all scores whenever you play. 2. Post an eighteen hole score when you play at least 13 holes. For the holes you did not play, record par plus your handicap strokes. 3. Post a nine hole score if you play at least seven holes. For the holes you did not play, record par plus your handicap strokes. A nine hole score posted will automatically be combined with another nine hole score posted to create an eighteen hole score. The combining of nine hole scores may be any combination of nines, i.e., a front nine tee score combined with a back nine middle tee score. A nine hole score will be retained within a player’s scoring record until it is older than the oldest 18 hole score in the record. Nine hole scores cannot be treated as “T” scores. 4. Uncompleted Holes: If you pick up on a hole, record the score you most likely would have made. That score, however, must not exceed your Equitable Stroke Limit. 5. When a hole is not played, your score for the hole is par, plus any handicap strokes to which you are entitled, based on your full Course Handicap. This also applies to any hole that you do not play using the Rules of Golf. 6. If “mulligans” are allowed, for posting purposes your score for the hole is par, plus any handicap strokes to which you are entitled, based on your full Course Handicap.
7. Conceded Strokes: “conceded strokes/putts” -- Post the score you
most likely would have made on that hole, not to exceed your ESC
(Equitable Stroke Control). “Unfinished/pick-up holes” -- Post the
score you most likely would have made on that hole, not to exceed your
ESC. “Unplayed holes” -- Post par plus any handicap strokes you would
have received for that hole. DO NOT POST THESE SCORES: 1. When you play in a competition limiting the number or types of clubs used, such as a three-club tournament, do not post. 2. When a majority of the holes are not played under the Rules of Golf, such as a Scramble or Scotch, do not post.
EQUITABLE STROKE CONTROL (ESC) keeps an exceptionally bad hole from changing your handicap. For handicap purposes, you are required to adjust your holes score (actual or probable) when they are higher than the maximum number you can post. There is no limit to the number of holes on which you can adjust your score. ESC sets a maximum number that a player can post on any hole depending on the player’s course handicap as shown below:
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OUT OF BOUNDS: Homeowners’ property lines, walls, fences, streets and parking lots shall define out-of bounds when white stakes are not present. GROUND UNDER REPAIR: All newly sodded areas, landscaped areas, areas outlined by white lines, staked trees and embedded stones in the turf area are ground-under-repair from which play is prohibited. If a player’s ball lies within the area or if it interferes with the player’s stance or his intended swing, the player must take relief under rule 25-1. EMBEDDED BALL: Through the green, a ball that is embedded in its own pitch mark in the ground, other than sand, may be lifted without penalty, cleaned and dropped as near as possible to where it lay but not nearer the hole. “Through the green” is the whole area of the course except a) the teeing ground and putting green of the hole being played; and b) all hazards on the course. STONES IN BUNKERS are moveable obstructions. Rule 24-1 applies. If the ball moves while removing the stones, it must be replaced, without penalty, providing the movement is directly attributed to the removal of the stones. FRENCH DRAINS are obstructions. Rule 24-2 applies. The player may lift the ball and drop it, without penalty, within one club-length of and not nearer the hole than the nearest point of relief. PROVISIONAL BALL ON HOLES WITH LATERAL HAZARD: If there is doubt whether a ball is in or is lost in the lateral water hazard on holes # 2, 6, 9, 12, 16 and 17 a player may play another ball provisionally. If the original ball is found in the hazard, the player may either play the original ball as it lies OR continue with the provisional ball, but he may not proceed under Rule 26-1 with regards to the original ball. GREENSIDE IRRIGATION HEADS are immovable obstructions. If a ball lies off the putting green and the irrigation head is within two club-lengths of the putting green and is within two club-lengths of the ball and intervenes on the line of play to the hole, the player may take relief as follows: The ball may be lifted and dropped at the nearest point to where the ball lay that a) is not nearer the hole and b) avoids intervention and c) is not in a hazard or on the putting green. The ball may be cleaned when lifted. Rules of golf pages 110-111. AERATION HOLES: Relief for a ball that comes to rest on or in an aeration hole or “slice” is permitted. The ball may be lifted, without penalty, cleaned and dropped as near as possible to the spot where it lay but not nearer the hole. BALL DROP
AREAS may be used on hole
# 3, 8, 13 and 15 if a player’s ball comes to rest within the
lateral water hazard. A player may NOT use the ball drop areas for
balls lost in the desert or out of bounds. A penalty of one stroke
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OUT OF BOUNDS: Homeowners’ property lines, walls, fences, streets and parking lots shall define out-of-bounds when white stakes are not present. GROUND UNDER REPAIR: All newly sodded areas, landscaped areas, areas outlined by white lines, staked trees and embedded stones in the turf area are ground-under-repair from which play is prohibited. If a player’s ball lies within the area or if it interferes with the player’s stance or his intended swing, the player must take relief under rule 25-1. EMBEDDED BALL: Through the green, a ball that is embedded in its own pitch mark in the ground, other than sand, may be lifted without penalty, cleaned and dropped as near as possible to where it lay but not nearer the hole. “Through the green” is the whole area of the course except a) the teeing ground and putting green of the hole being played; and b) all hazards on the course. STONES IN BUNKERS are moveable obstructions. Rule 24-1 applies. If the ball moves while removing the stones, it must be replaced, without penalty, providing the movement is directly attributed to the removal of the stones. FRENCH DRAINS are obstructions. Rule 24-2 applies. The player may lift ball and drop it, without penalty, within one club-length of and not nearer the hole than the nearest point of relief. SILT FENCES are erosion control features and considered temporary immovable obstructions. Relief may be taken, without penalty, provided the silt fence is not in a hazard, within one club-length of and not nearer the hole than the nearest point of relief. If the obstruction lies in a hazard, relief may be taken per rule 26-1, under penalty of one stroke. PROVISIONAL BALL ON HOLES WITH LATERAL HAZARDS: If there is doubt whether a ball is in or is lost in the lateral water hazard on holes # 5, 6, 8, 10 and 15 a player may play another ball provisionally. If the original ball is found in the hazard, the player may either play the original ball as it lies OR continue with the provisional ball, but he may not proceed under Rule 26-1 with regards to the original ball. GREENSIDE IRRIGATION HEADS are immovable obstructions. If a ball lies off the putting green and the obstruction is within two club-lengths of the putting green and is within two club-lengths of the ball and intervenes on the line of play to the hole, the player may take relief as follows: The ball may be lifted and dropped at the nearest point to where the ball lay that a) is not nearer the hole and b) avoids intervention and c) is not in a hazard or on the putting green. The ball may be cleaned when lifted. Rules of golf pages 110-111. AERATION HOLES: Relief for a ball that comes to rest on or in an aeration hole or “slice” is permitted. The ball may be lifted, without penalty, cleaned and dropped as near as possible to the spot where it lay but not nearer the hole. Rules of golf page 109. BALL DROP AREAS: No ball drop areas are allowed at The Preserve course for the 18 hole men’s or ladies clubs. Drop areas on holes #5, 6, 7, and 15 are used by the ladies and men’s nine hole clubs only. Rev. 4-08
CONSTITUTION and BY-LAWS Index:
Article 1.
Name
The
Secretary shall keep the minutes of all meetings of the
Association and Board. She shall perform such other duties as may be
prescribed. All officers,
upon retiring from office, shall deliver all funds, accounts,
records, papers, and properties of the Association to their
successor and shall submit recommendations, if any, at that time. Section II:
Business meetings of the Association will be scheduled quarterly
during the year. The date, time, and location of each meeting will
be posted on the website and in the MountainView posting room.
Special meetings may be called by the Board with sufficient time to
notify the membership.
Article 9:
Nominations and Elections
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