General Tournament Policy/Sign Up Rules

The Men’s club has adopted the “Play it Forward” concept promoted by the USGA. We encourage our members to play the tournament from the gold tees when their combined age and handicap give them the opportunity to do so. Keep in mind your handicap will be adjusted accordingly, and the scores need to be posted as played from the gold tees. When you sign up please indicate that you elect to play from the gold tees, so the handicaps on the tournament card can be calculated. All tournaments with the exception of the four major tournaments (2 Man Better Ball (and Met Net), Governor’s Cup (other than the senior division), President’s Cup and Club Championship), qualify. However, if you play in one of the qualifying tournaments for our Rotella or Patriot Hills Interclub matches, your scores from the Gold Tees will NOT qualify to earn points.

Tournament signup sheets are posted 3 to 4 weeks prior to the scheduled date.  If you chose to play in that tournament put your name on the sheet. Online registration is also available through golfgenius.com.  All tournaments for 2018 are open for registration. Pairings will be made 10 days prior to the tournament date in order to be able to utilize the 8 day advance tee time reservation system.

The tournament pairing sheet will have numbered alternate sign up locations in case you forgot or couldn't sign up timely. The tournament directors will monitor the alternate signings and they will make additional teams, providing the alternates enable additional teams to be put together following the same format of the tournament. Priority will be given to the first person signing up. If the tournament pairing require A,B,C,D players the tournament directors will ,follow the order of the alternates and make teams accordingly. Put your phone number next to your name so you could be notified. It will be the team’s responsibility to get a starting time.

Only teams which have the proper pairing can play in that tournament, however, if the tournament is a challenge cup qualifier we will put together additional groups which will only count for challenge cup points.

If the tournament directors need to fill a spot from the posted player due to an emergency withdrawal from the tournament, they will fill the spot from the alternate sheet in sequence.

Only the tournament directors can make the alternate teams and fill spots.

Match Play Tournaments (Governor's Cup, Club Championship): Matches MUST be played on, or played by, the date indicated, as the case may be, as indicated by the Tournament Committee prior to sign up. In the event of a situation forcing cancellation of a particular date (rainout, course becomes unavailable, for example), the Tournament Committee will reschedule and set new dates. If a particular player cannot play on a scheduled "play on" date, his match will be forfeited. If both players can't mutually agree to a date in the case of a "play by" date, the player ready and willing to play on the "play by" date shall be deemed the winner. Of course, the Tournament Committee reserves the right to change dates due to exigent circumstances (which don't include personal inconvenience), but absent those, these are hard and fast dates for matches.

For purposes of the hole-in-one pool, only holes-in-one made during the actual play of an eligible tournament will count. In the case of a match play event, holes-in-one made after a match has ended (by play or concession) do not count.

No show penalties will still apply, and no pay (losing your starting time) penalties will apply, and there will be no other penalties as long as the above rules are followed. The penalties are $40, and must be paid before the next tournament. Additionally, each round of the Club Championship qualifier is considered a separate tournament for penalty purposes. If you sign up and play in Round 1 and don't show for Round 2 (or vice versa), you will be penalized for the round in which you fail to show. If you sign up and don't show for both rounds, you will be penalized $40 for each. The Tournament Committee reserves the right to excuse penalties if a player has informed the Tournament Committee prior to pairings being made that he will be missing one of the rounds (since this is also a Challenge Cup event).

Important Handicap dates:

Challenge and Friendship Cups will be determined based upon the June 1st handicap revision. 

Flights for the Club Championship will be determined based upon the July 1st handicap revision

Governor’s Cup handicaps will be date of play.

Spook Rock Men’s Club

Tournament Schedule

2022

                          *****       10 CHALLENGE CUP EVENTS (Points awarded to top ten participants in each flight)

                         ++++         6 FRIENDSHIP CUP EVENTS (Points awarded to top ten participants in each flight)

                          BOLD             TROPHY TOURNAMENTS

                              HOLE IN 1 - NOW ALL MEN’S CLUB TOURNAMENTS, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED