Diamante WGA-9
2024 Play Day Information
- Tuesday mornings (with an occasional Wednesday)
March 12 – October 29 (unless a holiday/special event / course closure)
- Sign up on the website (dcc-dwga93.golfgenius.com) by 2:00 P.M. on the Sunday before Tuesday’s play. (If you miss the deadline, please email the Golf Shop prior to 7:00 am on Tuesday to be added to the list.) (golf@diamantecc.com)
- Meet outside the Golf Shop at 8:15 A.M. for announcements
- Shotgun at 8:30 A.M. for 9 holes on either the front 9 or the back 9 (varies during the season)
- Following play, join your fellow golfers for lunch in the grill (or on the patio if weather permits).
- Some days are simply “Play Your Own Ball” while other weeks will specify games for fun formats.
- For most play days, in order to facilitate pace of play, we limit strokes on each hole to “net double bogey”. The Golf Shop marks our scorecards with our “strokes” so that each player knows her “net double bogey” per hole.
Net Double Bogey: The maximum score for each hole played is limited to a net double bogey - which is equal to Par of the hole + 2 strokes (double bogey) + any handicap strokes the player is entitled to receive on that hole based on their Course Handicap. (The scorecard provided by the Golf Shop will have asterisk(s) for number of "handicap strokes" per hole.)
- We play “ready golf” as long as it doesn’t interfere with another player’s position.
- We celebrate triumph by entering our achievements in the “Milestone” book following play each week. If you have an eagle, birdie, par, or chip-in you will list it as an achievement. If you have a “personal record low round” (break 60, 55, 50, or 45 for the first time during league play) you will notate that achievement in the book. (Take a photo of your scorecard before turning it in to the Golf Shop so that you can have it to enter your accomplishments.)
New for 2024:
- Ringer Board /Dream Round(Optional)
- Low Putt Pot (Optional)
- Practice Partners (Optional)
Ringer Board / Dream Round:
The “Milestone” book will include an individual Ringer Board/Dream Round sheet for each member to modify as the season progresses.
For the first play day that you participate, you will complete the entire scorecard (for whichever 9). You will repeat this for “the other 9” when it is first played. On future play days only improved scores on individual holes should be entered on your Ringer Board / Dream Round sheet. You may or may not need to make any changes on a play day. You will only enter a score on any hole if your score for that hole on that day is lower than any previous day for that same hole.
Low Putt Pot:
For the weeks that the format fits, we will have an (optional) Low Putt Pot. If you wish to participate in this “side game”, you will list your name in the Putts book and put your money ($1) in the red mailbox before we head out on the course. While playing, you will record the number of putts on each hole on your scorecard. Then during lunch, we will confirm how many putts each player had during the round. If you pick up on any hole (due to double net bogey) then you will count 3 putts for that hole. The paying participant that had the least amount of total putts for the 9-hole round will win that day’s pot.
Practice Partners:
Get together with other members on Thursday morning around 10:00 am for a 45 minute practice session. It might be at the range, the chipping area, the sand area, or the putting green. The focus of practice will vary week to week. Continue the fellowship while having lunch! If you can’t make the practice session or weather prohibits the session, please join us for lunch at 11:00 a.m.
Nancy Koski, President Connie Vaden, Vice-President
nancykoski5@gmail.com cjvaden@yahoo.com
573-434-9156 501-993-6689
Lee Ann Newcomb, Membership Golf Shop
lanewcomb20@gmail.com golf@diamantecc.com
602-430-7972 501-922-4191