2023 Men’s League Shootout Preliminaries
Group A -- Arrival by 8:35am — Briefing at 8:45am -- Tee Time 9:00am
Group B -- Arrival by 9:00am — Briefing at 9:10am -- Tee Time 9:25am
Group C -- Arrival by 9:25am — Briefing at 9:35am -- Tee Time 9:50am
Group D -- Arrival by 9:50am — Briefing at 10:00am -- Tee Time 10:15am
Group E -- Arrival by 10:15am — Briefing at 10:25am -- Tee Time 10:40am
Shootout Golf Event Information, Format & Rules
Shootout is a golf game where one golfer per hole is eliminated. Each group in the Prelims will play until only 2 golfers are remaining who will then play in the Finals the next day (Saturday, Feb 26th, 2022).
In the case of a tie, those golfers have a chip-off and the farthest from the hole is eliminated.
This will be a handicapped event so net scores will be used on each hole. "Net score" refers to a golfer's score after handicap strokes have been deducted. Put more technically, the net score is a player's gross score (the actual number of strokes played) minus the strokes his or her course handicap allows to be deducted during the course of the round.
The USGA rules of golf will apply during this event, including the local rules of play. Here are a few to remember:
+ Play the ball down or where it lies, no improving the lie.
+ Have an identifying mark on your ball. If you cannot identify a ball as yours it is considered a lost ball. There will be a lot of balls-in-play on the early holes so this is very important.
+ Generally, you will hole out with the same ball you started play from the teeing area. You can always use a new ball when starting a hole. You can also substitute a different ball any time you are taking relief, including both free and penalty relief. On the putting green however, when you mark and lift your ball, you must replace that same ball to finish out the hole.
+ White stakes are Lateral Hazzard boundaries. Drop your ball within 2 club lengths inside the white stakes at the point where the ball crossed the hazzard line (not where it ended up) but no closer to the green with a 1-stroke penalty.
+ On any shot, if a ball's line-of-flight is on the hazzard side of a corner pole and travels beyond the corner pole, the shot must be replayed from its original position, with a 1-stroke penalty. This applies to holes 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 16, 17 & 18.
+ Lost ball inside the hazzard, drop another ball within 2 club lengths where the ball was deemed to have crossed the hazard line, but no closer to the green with a 1-stroke penalty.
+ A golf club full swing relief is permitted from homeowner foliage, fences and other man-made obstructions as long as your ball does not rest in the hazard.
+ A golf ball lying on any cart path may be dropped at the nearest point of total relief per USGA rules.
+ Ground Under Repair areas include: Retention area on hole #3 (includes Pampas grass); Ant hills; Any beauty spots (special flower/landscaped beds maintained by Club Members); and, Any area on the course specially marked with white paint.
+ You may carry no more than 14 clubs in your bag, including your putter
+ Plugged Lies - If the ball becomes embedded into a general area of the golf course that has soft, muddy turf you are entitled to move the ball without receiving a penalty. Just pick the ball up, clean it off, and place it down as close as possible to the original area where it landed. General Areas include all areas of the course except the tee of the hole you are playing, bunkers, and penalty areas.
+ You are not allowed to give advice nor are you allowed to accept advice. "Advice" is any counsel or suggestion which could influence a player in determining his/her play, the choice of a club or the method of playing a stroke. The penalty for breach of the rule is two strokes in stroke play and loss of hole in match play.
Anything considered public information and is available to all competitors, is not considered advice, examples below:
Information as to the length of a hole is not advice within the meaning of the term in the rules.
Distance from fixed objects is normally available to all players through scorecards, yardage books, tee signs, and yardage markers.
Information on the rules of golf or on matters of public information, such as the position of hazards or the position of the flagstick on the putting green is not advice either.
You can ask a fellow competitor where the flag is located, where the lake is on the hole, or how far it is to the corner of a dogleg or a fairway bunker from the Tee.
However, a player may not ask the distance from a non-permanent object such as their ball (once in play) to the putting green or the corner of a dogleg, etc.