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Tee 2 Green Golf Club

Membership Handbook

Club Officers

President - Jim Bonwell

Vice President - Tim Cooper

Treasurer - Jim Bonwell

Handicap Chair - Kevin Locklin

The Tee2Green Golf Club is an Associate Club of the

Northern California Golf Association.

Club #63-472-1 Men

Membership Benefits

NCGA Membership
Establish and Maintain an Official Handicap
Monthly Computerized Index Update
NCGA Magazine (Quarterly)
Organized Tournaments
Special “Membership Rates” at Poppy Hills and Poppy Ridge Golf Courses

General Membership Meetings

Held every October, consult club officers for date and time.

Tee 2 Green events are referred to as “tournaments” in this

Brochure. However, these events are not posted as tournaments nor do we conduct tournament qualifiers for NCGA tournaments.

Tournament Schedule

Tournament schedules are produced annually.

Please contact the Tournament Director for current schedule.

Tournament Registration Fees

Tournament registration fees are due 30 days prior to the scheduled tournament unless indicated otherwise on the Tournament Schedule. Available tournament slots are filled on a first paid basis.

Guests are welcome, however members have first priority until final fee due date. On the posted due date on the Tournament Schedule, guests fees are considered equally to member fees.

Guests must pay an additional $5.00 entry fee.

Send registration fees to:

Gary Malinski

4147 Stanley Blvd.

Pleasanton, CA. 94566

925-484-4813

Tournament Flight Assignments

Each outing will have a maximum of four flights:

Flight 1 - Lower handicap players

Flight 2 - Medium handicap players

Flight 3 - High handicap players

Flight 4 - No handicap players

Guests are welcome.

Men and women will compete in the same flight based on their handicap. Each tournament player will be assigned a handicap based on their index and the course rating. Members with established handicaps will then be divided equally in Flights 1-3 (often odd number players will create unequal flights, we start each year with the flight #1 having the first least player advantage and rotate through flights 2 and 3, then repeat pattern).

No members will be allowed more than two tournaments where they can compete in flight 4. At the third tournament, they will need to have a handicap established in order to earn points. If they have not yet established a handicap, they will receive one point for attendance for each tournament until a handicap is established. We encourage all new members to establish a handicap as quickly as possible.

Guests do not earn points, nor are eligible for closet-to-pin or longest drive prizes.

Cash Point System

The Tee2Green Golf Club makes use of a point system for determining cash award winners.

At the end of each season, the members whose total points are the top ten highest point totals will split the cash prize pot. Points are earned throughout the season as follows:

1 points - Attending any scheduled tournament.

Points are awarded for each flight as follows:

3 points - First place (low net)

2 points - Second place (low net)

1 point - Third place (low net)

3 points - First Place (low gross)

1 point - Low putts

Scoring of the non-handicap group:

3 points - First place (low gross)

2 points - Second place (low gross)

1 point - Third place (low gross)

1 point - Low putts

You cannot win points for both low net and low gross places. If you qualify for both, you will be awarded the highest point value of one of the places and the remaining place will go to the next player in line to qualify. For example: You place third in low net and first in low gross, you will be awarded 3 points for first in low gross.

Ties – Both players will be awarded points for the tied position.

Cash Prize Fund

Tournament registration fees include a $7.00 prize fund fee. This fee is accumulated throughout the year and is then split among the players whose year end point total is among the top ten. The more players we have in each tournament, the larger the prize total will become. The prize fund is divided by the total number of points earned by all the winners to establish a cash value per point. The total points earned for each player is then multiplied by the point cash value to determine the total cash prize for the specific winner. The prize fund is equal to the total of prize fund fees or $1,000, whichever is less.

Closest-to-the-Pin

We will have two closest-to-the-pin holes at each tournament. Men and women will compete together on each designated hole. The tee shot must settle on the green to be eligible for the closest-to-the-pin. Cash awards or gift certificates will be presented to the winners at the end of each tournament.

Longest Drive

The hole will be announced or indicated on the score card at the beginning of each tournament. Men and women will compete separately. The ball must be in the short cut area of the fairway to be marked for the longest drive. Cash awards or gift certificates will be presented to the winners at the end of each tournament.

Tournament Play

Foursomes will be named by the Tournament Director. Foursomes will not be grouped by handicap. Every effort will be made to accommodate foursome requests but cannot be guaranteed. Please make specific pairing requests with the Tournament Director when payment is made.

Women will play from the forward tees; men will play from the middle tees unless you are advised otherwise at the start of play. Summer rules apply unless you are advised by the Tournament Director at the start of play.

Speed of Play – During a Tee2Green Tournament, specific pace of play rules applies. In order to maintain pace of play, no player can take more than double par on the fairway. They must then pick up and drop their ball on the front edge of the green and putt out. The score for the hole will be double par plus total putts.

Type of Play – All Tee2Green tournaments will be played using “summer rules”. In other words, your ball cannot be moved, nudged or cleaned anywhere off the green (unless allowed by USGA Rules.) If determined by the Tournament Director at the start of the tournament that “winter rules” apply, picking your ball is allowed only when your ball lies in the fairway. If the ball lies of the fairway, you must play the ball as it lies.

Attire – Club tournaments are normally played at facilities that do not allow tank tops, tee shirts, blue jeans, cut offs or short shorts. A collared golf shirt and Bermuda shorts or slacks will insure appropriate attire at any golf course. If in doubt, contact the scheduled course for specific guidelines.

Guests – Guests are welcome at all tournaments. When tee times are limited, members paid before the entry fee due date will have priority. After the due date, guests and members will be accepted on a first paid basis. There is a $5.00 additional fee for all guests and they will not compete in the team member flights. Guest will not compete in the closest-to-the-pin or the longest drive contests.

Posting Scores – Members are responsible to post scores for all non-tournament rounds played. If you need assistance posting, contact the Handicap Chairman. Posting of scores should be done immediately following your round of at the course being played or by going online at www.ncga.org . All Tee2Green tournaments scores will be posted for you by the Handicap Chairman.

Rebates for Multiple Members – A rebate form appears in the July issue of the NCGA Magazine each year. Those members with multiple memberships are entitled to a partial rebate. It is the individual’s responsibility to apply for the rebate within the time period set by the NCGA.

Tournament Registration Fees – Fees are due as specified in the tournament schedule). Players will be registered on the first paid basis.

NCGA Membership Card – As a member of the Tee2Green Golf Club, you will become a member of the NCGA and provided a membership card. Whenever the club holds a tournament on one of the NCGA home courses (Poppy Hills, or Poppy Ridge), it is the responsibility of each player to have their card with them on the date of play.

Scoring and Putting

Handicap and Membership Card – All members of associate clubs to the NCGA are handicapped through the USGA Golf Handicap and Information Network (GHIN). New NCGA membership cards are distributed in January and February each year. The NCGA is going to a paperless system and will no longer provide stickers showing your monthly index update. If you need to verify your index, log onto www.ncga.org or register for monthly email updates. If you do not have access to a computer, your Handicap Chairperson will provide an NCGA/GHIN update for you.

What is the maximum score I can post? – USGA rules govern the maximum number of strokes you can post on any given hole. All scores for handicap purposes are subject to the application of Equitable Stroke Control (ESC). This mandatory procedure reduces high hold scores for handicap purposes in order to make handicaps more representative of a player’s potential ability. A handicap is determined from scores to which ESC has not been applied may not be termed a Handicap Index. ESC maximum strokes per are as follows:

Establish your “Course Handicap” by applying your Handicap Index to the unique course ratings.This can be done at the course using the charts posted in the clubhouse or online gathering information from the NCGA website.

HANDICAP MAX SCORE ON ANY HOLE

9 or less…………Double Bogey

10 through 19……….7

20 through 29…….....8

30 through 39……….9

40 and above………..10

Be sure to adjust your score every time you post!

Golf and Etiquette

Golf is a game of tradition based on the values of common courtesy and actions that help maintain pace and play.

Leave the green as soon as your foursome is finished and wait until you get to the next tee to record your score.
Do not move or talk while a golfer is playing a shot.
Know your distance and play safe.Do not hit into those in front of you.If you accidentally hit a ball that may endanger or even come close to any person, yell “FORE” to warn of the danger.
Be ready for your next shot.Prepare yourself discreetly while other golfers are playing their shot.
When men and women are playing in the same foursome, have the women’s cart be in front men’s cart when arriving at the tee.This saves time.The ladies can move forward and take their shot while the men are loading up after they tee off.
Limit yourself to two practice swings before taking your shot.The time to practice and groove your game is on the practice range.
Replace all divots and, when sand bottles are provided on the cart, fill the divots with the sand and seed mix in the sand bottle.
Repair ball marks on the green.A ball mark repaired immediately begins to heal in 24 hours.Ball marks unchecked take 24 days to begin the healing process.
Be aware of those around you and avoid walking on the line of their putt, disturbing others with your shadow or standing in their line of sight.
Riding in a cart does not mean you do not have to walk.Speed up play.Both players assume driving responsibilities.Drop one player at his/her ball and the second player drives to his or her ball.The back player walks up to the cart.Keep play moving forward.
Clean up after yourself, rake the sand trap.
Sand rakes are to be left the sand trap, not lying alongside.
Keep all carts thirty feet from the greens.Be observant and obey the cart direction signs.Signs are there to protect the course and maintain safety for all the players.
Pace of play is determined by you keeping up with the group in front of you.Do not gauge your pace by looking behind of you.If the course Marshall asks you to pick up you ball because of slow play; pick up the ball, score double par and move to the next hole.

General Rules

Play it as it lies – The ball must be played as it lies. No bumping, moving or touching the ball.
Winter Rules – Only allowed when it is posted the day of the tournament by the tournament director. Player may improve the lies by up to six inches when the ball lies in the fairway, using hand only (not a club).
Bare Ground – You may improve your lie by six inches only.
Tee Box – You must tee your ball not more than two club lengths behind the tee markers. If your tee shot was played in front of the tee markers or beyond the two club lengths behind the markers, the shot must be replayed and the player must incur a two stoke penalty.

Hazards

Lateral Water Hazards are marked by red stakes or lines. You have five options:

Play the ball where it lies – Without penalty
Replay the ball – One Stroke penalty – return the ball to the closest point where the ball was last played.
Line of Sight – One Stroke Penalty – visualize a line between the place where you originally struck the ball and the place where the ball last crossed the margin of the hazard and, drop your ball anywhere behind (no limit) the extension of that line from where that ball last crossed the margin of the hazard.
Take a drop –

One Stroke Penalty, drop the ball out of the hazard with two clubs-lengths from the point where the ball last crossed the margin of the hazard.

One Stroke Penalty, drop the ball out of the hazard within two club-lengths from a point equidistant from the hole on the opposite margin if the hazard.
Water Hazard is marked with a yellow stakes or line.

Normally the water hazard will be between you and the green and will be staked yellow and not red. Choices 1, 2, or 3 as outlined above in Lateral Hazard can be used when your ball lands in a yellow staked area.

Hazard Infringements – If your ball is in either a red or yellow staked hazard, you may NOT:

Lift your ball for identification = One stroke penalty.

Testing the condition of the hazard or a similar hazard by touching the ground or water in the hazard with a club or any other way = two stroke penalty.

Touch, move or remove loose impediments when the ball and the loose impediments both lie in or touch the hazard, except when the impediment might be moved in the backward movement of your swing while hitting the ball.

Lost Ball or Out Of Bounds

If the ball is lost in casual waters, ground under repair or certain damages to the ground, see “Abnormal Conditions”.
If the ball is lost in a water hazard, see “Lateral or Water Hazard”.
If the ball is lost in an immovable obstruction, see “Obstructions”

If the ball is lost somewhere else or out-of-bounds, the player must return as close as possible to where the ball was originally played with a one stroke penalty.

A ball is lost if it has been found or identified within three minutes if the beginning of the search.
Out of bounds is the ground where it is forbidden to play.
The out of bounds lines (white) are determined by the nearest inside points of the stakes or a fence at ground level.
When the out of bounds is defined by a line on the ground, that line itself is out of bounds.
A ball is out of bounds when it lies completely out of bounds.
A player can stand out of bounds to hit a ball lying in bounds.

Abnormal Playing Conditions

Casual water, ground under repair, damages to the course, or interference.

Interference can be casual water or ground under repair, a hole, cast or runway made by a burrowing animal, reptile or bird.
There is interference when one of these conditions occurs:
- The ball lies in or touches the interference.
- On the course – if the condition interferes with a players stance or swing.
- One the green – if the condition is in the line of the putt.
If there is interference, you can:
- Play where it lies unless local rules do not allow.
- Take relief as follows:
Relief – the ball can be cleaned when lifted.
- One the green – lift and place a ball without a penalty, as close as possible to where it lied, avoiding the interference and no closer to the hole or in a hazard.
- One the course – determine the closest point where the ball lies which avoids the interference, is not closer to the hole, which is not in a hazard or on a green.Drop the ball without a penalty within one club length of that point.
- In a hazard – you have two options.
  - Without a penalty, lift and drop the ball in the hazard as close as possible to where it lies while avoiding the interference and getting no closer to the hole.
  - One stroke penalty, lift and drop the ball out of the hazard while keeping it between you and the hole.
Ball lost in interference must be obvious that the ball is lost. If not obvious see “Lost Ball or Out of Bounds”
- Determine the closest point where the ball crossed the margin of the area concerned, which avoids the interference, no closer to the hole and not in a hazard or on a green.
- Drop the ball without a penalty within one club length of that point.
Ball embedded in own pitch mark (i.e. “plugged’) – Only in the zone where the grass is cut to length of fairway or shorter, the ball can be lifted, cleaned and dropped without a penalty as close as possible to the spot and not closer to the hole.

Putting Green

Once you are on the green and begin putting, you are committed to putting. If the ball rolls off the green, your shot back onto the green is a PUTT.

Two stroke penalty for any of the following:
- Touching or marking the putting green with hand, person or object to indicate line of putt.
- Putting another person’s ball.
- Testing the surface by rolling another ball.
- Play a stroke with stance astride the putting line in front of or behind the ball.
- Hit a stroke while another ball is rolling.
- Touching the line of the putt except:
  - To move sand, loose soil or other loose impediments with your hand or club.
  - In addressing the ball.
  - In measuring
  - In pressing a ball mark
  - In lifting the ball
  - In repairing ball marks
- Having unattended flagstick lifted while ball is moving.
- Ball hits flagstick or person attending flag.
- Removing frost or dew in line of putt.
- Repairing anything except divots in line of putt.
You only have ten seconds after the ball reaches the hole to wait for the ball to go into the hole.Waiting longer than ten seconds is a one stroke penalty.

Improving The Lie, Position or Swing

You may touch or bend long grass, bushes, or plants to find your ball as long as you do not improve the lie of the ball, area of swing or line of play.
You may move, bend or break anything that grows or is fixed to the ground in taking your stance or backward swing while playing your stroke.If you do so on a practice swing, you have improved your lie therefore this is a .
It is a two stroke penalty if you:
- Improve your lie while searching for your ball or improve the extension of the line on your shot and you do not correct the situation before you hit your ball.
- Move objects to improve the lie of the ball or area of the swing.
- Build a stance.
- Accept physical help or protection against the elements while playing a stroke.
- Remove sand or other loose soil anywhere on the course except on the green.
- Remove a loose impediment while the ball is moving.

Unplayable Ball

An unplayable lie is where the player can declare the ball unplayable anywhere on the course except in a water hazard. You have three options, all incurring a one stroke penalty.

1. Return to the spot where the shot was last taken,
- On the tee box, place on a tee.
- On green, place.
- Anywhere else drop.

**NCGA RULES UPDATE**

GOLF MODERNIZED RULES FOR 2019

Dropping Procedure: When taking relief, you drop the ball from knee height rather than shoulder height.

Double Hit: No penalty.

Lost Ball or Out of Bounds: Rather than return to the original place you hit the ball and a two stroke penalty, you now can take the option to drop the ball in the vicinity of where the ball is lost or went out of bounds and hit from there under a two-stroke penalty.

Putting Green: The flagstick does not need to be removed when putting.

Bunkers: You can touch the sand with your club without penalty.

Pace of Play: You can only spend three minutes looking for a lost ball.

Ready Golf: Players should adhere to “ready golf” and take no more than 40 seconds to play a stroke.

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