2018 Golf Nuts League Information

Please Note: The league information below is modified yearly and may not be 100% accurate.

ALWAYS check with the league commissioner to get the most up to date league information.

2018 Golf Nuts League Information

Welcome back to all Golf Nuts

We will start on 3-14-2018 and end on 8-22-2018

There are information sheets, contact information sheets (make sure you check your email & phone numbers and make corrections. If you do not see your information please fill out a member sheet.

League Basics

League Fee is $20.00. Official play is Wednesday’s at the Auburn Golf Course.

We begin official play on April 11th , 2018. For March you can play but none of the rounds will count unless you are trying to establish a handicap. This means no KP’S, no hole in one, no low net scores.

We have 4 tee times on both the front and the back (8 Total) every week beginning at 5:00 PM.

Draw cards at 4:50. Palmer & Nicklaus divisions will rotate each week between front and back.

Tee off early (2:00 PM). Early rounds do not count towards your handicap unless you declare it as a league round. We are a nine hole league “USGA Rules” during league play, except for winter rules. Course will post summer rules

League Website

Address is: www.golfnutsclub.com and you access the mobile version using the same web address from your smartphone.

Handicaps

We have a program, which tracks our handicaps for the league. Only rounds played at the Auburn Golf Course will be counted towards your league handicap. USGA GHIN cards are not valid for our league. If you want one need to join Auburn men’s club. We will carry over all handicaps from last year. Minimum of 3 current year rounds of 9 holes to establish a handicap. Then you can play in any of our weekly events or match play or team event. Double par is the maximum you can take on any hole except for team event, match play and other special events.

We will adjust all scores over double par

GHIN Cards

Auburn players card  $60.00. 1 free round plus discounted green fees or in you join the men’s club price is $30.00. Men’s club is $95.00 if paid by credit card or $90.00 if pay by check or cash

If you buy both at the same time the fee is $$120.00 or $125.00 by credit card. Get another free round. Must use before 5-15-2018 or after 9-15-2018. If you sign up for email you will get a free birthday round.

Scorecard Reminder

Write as clearly as possible (for obvious reasons). Use first and last names on the cards not just first names (i.e. we have 4 John’s, 3 Scott’s,) Time and Date your card so I can differentiate between 2 and 5 o’clock rounds. Note whether the card is for a specific event or if simply for handicaps. If you’ve paid your $5 for the yearly KP competition & you get close to the hole, makes sure you clearly mark it on your card so I cannot miss it. If a score is to make up an event (Team Event, Match Play etc..), note the date of the event that the score is being made

up for (i.e. “for 5/16 team event”) MAKE SURE TWO PEOPLE ADD UP AND  SIGN THE CARD. I’m going to be a stickler about this as I’ve found many cards added incorrectly. If you play on a different day you can put your score card into the cigar box in the pro shop in cabinet under the golf gloves If you in the skins game you should have 2 separate cards to turn in.

Skins game, Mike Brooks or Chris Griggs

Optional weekly event. $3.00 Low score on a hole wins part of the pot. 50% of your posted handicap. If your handicap is .01-.05 then round down if .06-.09 then round up. Par three holes are closest to the hole. Please leave a tee where your shot ended up, but you MUST put the distance on your scorecard. Once a card is turned in, that is it. No last second amendments. Please circle it on the card. If you forget to write it on the card, then too bad so sad. No money for you. Please have someone verify the card and have the scorekeeper sign it. Pot is determined by how many holes were won. –IE- if there were only 5 holes won then the pot is divided by 5. There is a front and back skins game.

Restaurant Info

We will be staying at the golf course after the rounds. Please turn in your score card ASAP so we can figure out who won what. Greatly appreciate it. Restaurant has given us discount cards; believe they will ultimately give us plastic ones. They have a new point system where you can get credit for every dollar you spend on food and drinks. They are going to try and have

more specials.

Course Info

Auburn Golf Course greens fees are $38 for 18 holes and $24 for 9. Or with a players card $33 for 18 & $21 for 9 Golf Carts Normally it is $14. $6 per person for 9 holes or $12 for 18 with player’s card Free extra holes (depends on availability)

League Appreciation Night-entire month of March

Please play in March any weekday and tell the course you are with South End Golf Nuts. Green fee will be $20.00 and we will get back $10.00 in gift cards (chip in cards for those who don’t know) this is for the entire month of March. Let me know you played so I can track who is eligible for cards. Only those who play in March are eligible for chip in gift cards.

Arification

The course will be doing 2 arifications this year. Tentatively set for March but because of how much rain may get moved in April and then again in September, no firm dates at this point.

The high school will be going off late August early September but should not interfere with us.

The course will be starting work on hole #10 starting in September

Optional Competitions

SPECIAL NOTE: NONE OF THESE ARE REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE LEAGUE.

Closest to the pin (KP’s) for the year on all of the par threes ($5.00)

• You must pay your entry fee prior to being eligible.
• Please mark all KP’s down on your scorecards so it can’t possibly be missed!!!
• Only one KP per person, but write your name down each time you are close.
• All KP’s will have to be witnessed by another league member to be considered valid.

Low net for the year ($5.00) Two Divisions

• Lowest score of the year (including handicap)
• Two Divisions will be awarded at the end of the year tournament.
• Early rounds (2PM) will not be counted toward the “KP” or “Low Net” unless the round is designated as a “make up” round. Must stipulate as being a “make up” round PRIOR teeing off
• Pay out first thru fourth place for both divisions
• Figured on final handicap of the year

Hole in One ($1 per year)

• The cost is $1 per person per year.
• If no one wins, the pot is carried over to the following year.
• The pot is worth $680 this year.
• You can pay for past years if not currently in on those years. 15 past years
• A hole-in-one MUST occur during league play witnessed by another member of SEGN No exceptions.

Team Event ($30.00 per TEAM, Scott Sutton is running this year)

Bi-weekly competition to establish a win/loss record against other teams. **Scott wanted me to ask if we should keep this point system or change?? He will be getting out the new rules and scoring system soon. Make sure and get him your team names and players.

• Occurs every other week, probably beginning in May.
• You have 12 days to make up missing rounds
• It is up to both teams to determine who won what points. You will be providing Scott with point totals.

Auburn Cup ($10)

• 6 best scores from middle of April middle of August.
• All full score competitions will be used to gather these scores
• Your best 3 front nine scores and 3 back nine score during this time span.
• Lowest net scores win the cash.
• Will be paying the top 5 places

Bi-Weekly Competitions $5.00 per week

It was decided by the league to limit the special events to only 4 or 5 for the year. We will playing more regular rounds (if you can call anything this leagues does a regular)

Examples Low Net, 2 man Scramble, 3 club night, Stymie, 2 man best ball etc.)

Events listed on the website. Both nines used so adjustments made accordingly

Let me know which ones you would like me to include. Will put out a schedule once I have a final number of teams.

Match Play Tim Ditch will be running $10.00

• Minimum of 28 players: Top 30 plus last year’s champion & runner-up (for 32) after the play-in round.
• Less than 28 players: Top 12 plus last year’s champion & runner-up (for 14) after the play-in round are in. Players 13-16 from the play-in round are in the First Four Play In (kind of like the NCAA tournament which we seem to copy) will play in the initial Match Play round.
• Scores of the play in determine the seeding position.
• Will be played opposite weeks of team event.

End of the Year Tournament

It was decided at our league meeting that we are going to shut down the- league at the end of August instead of going into September. So tentatively we are going to shot for 8-25-2018 for the year end tourney. It was also decided that many of the league wanted to travel to a course and spend Friday night out of town. We will also make it within a decent driving distance for those who can’t get away on Friday. We will also set up a skins game on Friday the 24th. It was also decided to play at a better course even though we will have a smaller prize fund or depending on the course we may have to raise the fee from the current $100.00

Suggestions of where you would like to play let me know. I would like to book times before end of April.

Anything else you want to bring up for the good of the league let me know.

Summary of Fees

$20.00 to join the league and establish a handicap. (Only required fee)

$ 5.00 for all of the KP’s (OPTIONAL)

$ 1.00 for a Hole in One (OPTIONAL & you can pay for past years to be eligible for those years, 15)

$ 5.00 for the Low Net for the year (OPTIONAL)

$15.00 per team member for the team event (OPTIONAL)

$10.00 Auburn Cup (OPTIONAL)

Total $56.00

 

 

 

 

 

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You can print, View or Download the 2016 competition schedule here

 Event Schedule 2018 coming soon

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2017 South End Golf Nuts Team Event Rules 

Detach and give to Lonnie no later than 1 week prior to commencement of the team event

TEAM NAME __________________________________

PLAYER #1 __________________________________ PHONE # __________________

PLAYER #2 __________________________________ PHONE # __________________

PLAYER #3 __________________________________ PHONE # __________________

PLAYER #4 __________________________________ PHONE # __________________

Players must have 3 Nine-hole rounds completed prior to April 23rd to establish a handicap for the team event.

Any deviation from the above must be ruled upon by the commissioner. The Team Event Fees MUST BE PAID

by April 9th in order to be eligible to participate in the team event.

 

2015 Skins Game

• 50% of your posted handicap
• We will be rounding your handicap
• .1 to .5 rounds down, .6 to .9 rounds up
• 7.4 will play to a 7 and 8.7 will play to a 9
• We will use the year end 2014 handicap’s until everyone has their 2015 handicap
• $3 per nine per week
• Play is every week or not at all i.e. if you start in skins you are in for the year
• Card is final with no exceptions! Once you turn in your card that is it, no last second amendments
• Card must have names, first and last, date played, time, i.e. 2PM or 5PM and of course front nine or back nine
• Card must be signed by the keeper and attested by a member of your group prior to turning it in
• NO Exceptions!
• KP’S, all KP’S must have the distance in feet written on the card and circled  
• NO Exceptions! 
• If you forget to write down your KP on the card with distance and did not circle it you will be out of luck, we will no longer be arguing back and forth over who had a tee closest
• The card in final this year!
• Questions?

 

MATCH PLAY RULES-2015

View or Download PDF 2015 Match Play Rules1

Match Play Rules

• All players will have to “play” into match play, except for the previous year’s winner and 2^nd place player who receive an automatic exemption. The 30 players at stroke play with the lowest net score will be in.

•Order of play is determined by one player tossing a tee, whoever it points too determines, at his option if he or his opponent will go first. Whoever goes first will continue to tee first until he loses a hole.

•After the tee shot, whoever is farthest from the hole MUST play first no matter the position of the opponent’s ball. -IE- if one player is on the green and the other is off but the player on the green is farthest away from the hole then the player on the green must go first. If you play out of turn then your opponent has two options. 1) He can make you replay the shot from the same location, no penalty stroke or 2) he can let the shot that was played out of turn stand as is.

•Handicaps are determined as follows: if your handicap is a 5 and your opponent is a 10, the low handicap player goes to zero and the high handicap player goes to 5, so he will get strokes on the 5 hardest holes. If after you subtract the two handicaps you have a remainder of between .1 – .5 you round down, if it is between .6 – .9 you will round up to a full number. In other words… if a 7.3 plays a 9.9, 9.9-7.3 = 2.6, rounds to 3 strokes. The 7.3 goes off as scratch and the 9.9 gets a stroke on the three toughest holes

•Your handicap will be whatever it is at the time of the match, so they will vary from week to week.

•Each hole is like a mini match in itself. There are no carry over’s from the previous holes.  -IE- if the first two holes are tied then player A wins the third hole player A is 1 up, not 3 up.

•A player may concede a hole at anytime, anywhere on the hole. Once conceded the hole is over and the player who conceded the hole loses that hole. You may give your opponent a putt, once given that player is deemed to have holed out and he adds one stroke to his score. –IE- if player A is laying 4 and is only a couple of inches from the hole and his opponent states “that’s good or pick it up” then player A’s score for the hole is 5. You can never pick up your own ball no matter how many strokes you have taken unless your opponent states the above or you concede the hole. If you think your heard your opponent say “it’s good” but you have any doubts ask your opponent for clarification.

•If a player is up more holes than are left to play then the match is over, -IE- player B is up 3 with 2 holes to go. The loser must exit the course immediately and wait at the bar! (Well I guess he can finish the round if he really wants to, but why? You loser)

•Dormie, this is when a player is up a certain number with only that many holes left (i.e. player A is up 3 with 3 holes to go, this means player B must win all 3 holes to tie.

•Ties, if after all 9 holes the players are tied then they shall go to the practice green and whoever had the honor on the 9^th tee shall choose whether it will be a chip or putt and to which hole. The other player decides whether to go first or not. This is sudden death. Whoever is closest to the hole after one shot wins.

•This is a single elimination tournament; we have 32 players, 16 in the upper bracket and 16 in the lower. Positions will be determined by the play in; handicaps used will be as of the week of each match. We will play every other week opposite the team event. Each match must play head to head. If you cannot play on the Wednesday of the match then you need to make a time with your opponent and play head to head. We are expecting everyone to try and make time to play your opponent, on a different day, the next Wednesday during league, or with the early group that goes off. If the match cannot be rescheduled then the person who missed the match on the original day will lose the match.

•In match play, if a doubt or dispute arises between the players, a player may make a claim. If no duly authorized representative of the Committee is available within a reasonable time, the players must continue the match without delay. The Committee may consider a claim only if the player making the claim notifies his opponent (i) that he is making a claim, (ii) of the facts of the situation and (iii) that he wants a ruling. The claim must be made before any player in the match plays from the next teeing ground or, in the case of the last hole of the match, before all players in the match leave the putting green.

A later claim may not be considered by the Committee unless it is based on facts previously unknown to the player making the claim and he had been given wrong information (Rules 6-2a and 9) by an opponent.

Once the result of the match has been officially announced, a later claim may not be considered by the

Committee unless it is satisfied that the opponent knew he was giving wrong information.

•The penalty for a breach of a Rule in match play is loss of hole except when otherwise provided.

•Cost will be $5.00 per player and the prize fund will be paid as follows: $85.00 for winner, $45.00 for 2nd

and $35.00 for 3rd. There will be a playoff for 3^rd place money between the 2^nd place person in the upper and the 2^nd place person in the lower bracket.

•The final match between the division winners will be an 18 hole match. This will mean that the match will not be decided on the first night and depending on the schedule it may not be decided the following week.  Make the leader sleep on it; give the player who is down a chance to recover.

•SIDE BETS: Bet on who you think will be the winner of each match, rules as follows: 1) $5.00 2) Pick a winner of each and every match all the way through each bracket until you have one ultimate winner. 3) You will get one point for each correct pick you have. 4) The person with the most overall points wins 60% of the pot, 2^nd place gets 25% and 3^rd gets 15% of the pot. Any ties will split. 5) Yes you can bet on yourself.

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