JHB CUP & SHIELD

(Women’s Club Team Championship)

2023 Competition Rules and Conditions

These Rules and Conditions are additional to the Rules on for Association Competitions

 

Format

  1. The competition is open to teams of three women amateur golfers. Results will be determined on the team aggregate of gross and nett scores over 18 holes stroke play. Team gross scores will take precedence over team nett scores.

 

Entry and Draw

  1. Clubs may enter as many teams as they wish. Duly completed entry forms and fees to be returned as directed. Each club shall provide match contact details for their teams.

 

  1. Entry shall be directly to a national final with a maximum of 20 teams at the final. In the event of the final being oversubscribed a ballot shall take place to reduce the number of teams (in principle each club shall be offered one or two spaces dependent on entries with a ballot for subsequent places).

 

  1. Once entries have closed, finalists will be confirmed by the NAPGC and clubs will be required to pay their green fees due and confirm their players. These must be received before the draw sheet issue date or teams will be excluded.

 

Conditions of Play

  1. The maximum permitted handicap index is 30.0. Players with higher handicap indexes may play but they will be capped at this maximum limit.

 

  1. A player’s playing handicap shall be 95% of their course handicap.

 

  1. Score cards to be returned as directed by the NAPGC competitions committee.

 

  1. No one team can win or be placed in both gross and nett score sections of the competition. At the national final finishing places shall be determined as follows: best gross; best nett; second best gross; second best nett.

 

  1. While player names are required to be submitted in advance of play, they can be substituted if necessary up until 15 minutes before play commences.

 

Trophies and Prizes

  1. At the national final the team with the lowest aggregate gross scores will be awarded the JHB Cup, of the remaining teams the one with the lowest aggregate nett scores will be awarded the JHB Shield. These trophies to be held for one year.

 

  1. Players in the winning teams and the runners up teams will receive individual awards.