Locust Grove High - PowerPoint Presentation

Slide1

Locust Grove High SchoolGolf Team

Rules & Etiquette of GolfSlide2

The golf team was created to provide a competitive environment for golfers to learn good sportsmanship and the enjoyment of playing with their fellow golfers from other High Schools. PurposeSlide3

Player Responsibilities - EtiquetteBe considerate of other players!! Don’t talk, move or stand near a player about to make a stroke.Leave the course and the facility in better condition than you find it!Replace divots

Repair ball marks

Rake sand bunkers

Don’t drag your feet on the greens

Be careful with the flag stick

Always act like ladies and gentlemenSlide4

Player Responsibilities – Course ConductNo club throwingNo swearingNo cheating

Disciplinary action may include disqualification, suspension and/or expulsion from the team

without warning

!

Players should point out rule infractions upon other players. Slide5

Player Responsibilities – Pace of Play9 holes should be completed in 2 hours.Walk to your golf ball and be ready to play when it is your turn.

If someone has a lost ball, play your shot first, then help them search for the lost ball.

If you can not see the group ahead of you, you are playing too slow.Slide6

Player Responsibilities – Tee TimesPlayers should arrive 30 minutes before their scheduled tee time.Players arriving 5 minutes after the last golfer, in their group has teed off will be disqualified.Players are required to give 48 hours notice (or as soon as possible) when withdrawing from an match.

This must be done directly to the coach!

Failure to give notice will result in suspension from the next event in which the player is scheduled to participate.Slide7

Player Responsibilities – ScorecardPlayers are required to keep score for another player in their group, not your fellow team mate.Each player is responsible for his/her score for each hole. The scorer is not held responsible for the addition of your total score, you are accountable.Slide8

Player Responsibilities - ScorecardUpon completion of the round, scorecards should be returned to the scorer’s table and players must wait for their cards to be checked.

If a player withdraws during a round, they must check in at the scorer’s table

and the coach

before leaving the facility. Slide9

Spectator InformationGolf carts are not provided to parents, spectators or volunteers.If you are interested in renting a spectator cart, please check in advance with the host facility.Slide10

Spectator InformationDo’s and Don’ts Do help players look up rules in the rule book

Don’t

make any rulings for the group in question

Do

help players search for lost golf balls

Don’t

give players advice – (club selection, type of shot etc.)

Do

carry water bottles, clothes, or rain suits for players

Don’t

carry the players clubs or bag

Don’t

talk on your cell phone while on the course

Do

help keep the golf course clean and neat

Don’t

let any player get away with damaging the course Slide11

Player Responsibilities - RulesIt is the obligation of every player to know and follow the USGA Rules of Golf. Georgia High School Exceptions:Players may use push carts in regular and post season matches.Players may NOT use electronic devices that compute playing distances.

Players

should not

seek rules advice from spectators.

Players

should

discuss rules questions with fellow competitors, the coach, and consult the rules book. Slide12

Player Responsibilities - RulesDoubt as to Procedure

In stroke play only, if a competitor is doubtful of how to proceed (uncertain of a rule) he/she may, without penalty, play a second ball

.

Providing that:

The player announces their intention to a fellow competitor and the player announces which ball they wish to count if the rules permitSlide13

Player Responsibilities - RulesPlaying a Wrong BallThe penalty for playing a wrong ball is 2 strokes and the player must

correct the error.Slide14

Player Responsibilities - RulesLoose ImpedimentsNatural objects (such as stones and leaves) not fixed or growing, not solidly embedded and not adhering to the ball.

May be moved unless the impediment and your ball lie in or touch the same hazard. If you accidently move your ball while moving impediments it is a stroke penalty.Slide15

Player Responsibilities - RulesObstructions

Obstructions are artificial (i.e., man-made) objects.

There are two types of obstructions:

--MOVABLE

--IMMOVABLESlide16

Obstructions - RulesObjects defining out of bounds such as fence posts or stakes and immovable artificial objects out of bounds are not obstructions

(T

herefore: No relief without penalty!!!!

). Slide17

Obstructions – Movable - RulesMovable Obstructions anywhere may be moved. If your ball moves, replace it without penalty.Slide18

Obstructions – Immovable - Rules Interference exist when an immovable obstruction or abnormal ground condition interferes with a players lie, stance or areas of intended swing.On the putting green, interference also occurs if the condition on the putting green intervenes on the line of putt.Slide19

Obstructions – Immovable - RulesThrough the Green:

The player shall lift the ball and drop it within one club

length of the

nearest point of relief

on a part of the course

that

is not nearer the hole,

avoids interference,

c. is not in a hazard or on a putting green.Slide20

Obstructions - ImmovableNearest Point of Relief The point on the course

nearest to where the ball lies which

(a) is not nearer the

hole

,

(b) avoids interference (lie, stance, area of swing) and

(c) is not in a

hazard

or on a

putting green

.

--It is the spot where the club is grounded in a simulated address position.Slide21

Player Responsibilities - RulesWater Hazard Defined by yellow stakes or lines

Player has 3 options

Play the ball as it lies – no penalty

Play the ball at the spot from which the original was last played – 1 stroke penalty

Drop behind the hazard keeping the point which the ball last crossed the margin of the hazard between the hole and the spot on which the ball is dropped – 1 stroke penalty

1

2

3Slide22

Player Responsibilities - RulesRule 26 Lateral Water Hazard Defined by Red stakes or lines

2 additional options

Drop 2 club-lengths from the point of entry into the hazard

Drop 2 club-lengths from point on the opposite margin, equidistant from the hole

3

2

1

4

5Slide23

Player Responsibilities - RulesBall Lost or Out Of Bounds

If your ball may be

lost

outside a

water hazard

or

out of bounds

, you may play a

provisional ball

before you go forward to look for the original, provided you announce your intention to do so.

“That one might

be out, I’d better

hit a provisional ball”Slide24

Lost Ball - RulesWhen is a ball lost? 1 of 3 actions must occur Cannot find or identify the ball within five minutes after you have begun to search for it

The player has made a stroke at a substituted ball

Player has played provisional ball from where the original is likely to be or from a point nearer the hole than that option

Slide25

Lost Ball or Out of Bounds - Rules If your ball is lost outside a water hazard or is out of bounds, add one penalty stroke

and play the

provisional ball

or, if you did not play a provisional ball, replay the shot.

The penalty is a stoke plus distanced.Slide26

Out of Bounds - RulesThe ball is OB when the entire ball is at rest OB.The OB line is determined by the inside edge of the stakes or fence posts

O.B.

1Slide27

Questions?