- Tournament info is presented six weeks before the tournament date
- Signups close 12 days before tournament date. This varies as away courses may require an earlier closing date
- Tee times are posted a minimum of one week before tournament date
Individual
- Player receives 100% of course handicap (not index)
Spring Match Play Championship
If we have more or less than 64 players…
A qualifier round will be played with the low net 32 moving to the first round.
- The low net 32 scores from the qualifier will be broken into 4 flights.
- There will be two brackets – usually named Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus
- Players are seeded by their index – not by their net score from the qualifying round.
- The #1 seed (lowest index) will play the #8 seed (highest index) in their flight, 4 vs 5, 2 vs 7 and 3 vs 6.
If we have exactly 64 players…
- Round of 32 – First round with all 64 players flighted into 4 flights (32 players left at day's end)
- Round of 16 – Second round with 32 players (16 players left at day's end)
- Round of 8 – Third Round with 16 players (8 players left at day's end)
- Round of 4 – Fourth Round with 8 players (4 players left)
- Semifinals – with 4 players
- Finals – with the final two players
2-Man Scramble
- 8-stroke differential (max.) a 10 and a 20 handicap may play as a team but the 20 must play as an 18 handicap
- 25% of total combined handicaps (not index) to be used for tournament
- 4 drives and 4 second shots each player per 9
- Drives and second shots count on a par 3, 4, or 5
- 2-stroke penalty for each shot required and not hit
4-Man Scramble
- 25% of total combined handicaps (not index) to be used for tournament
- 4 drives and *4 second shots each player, drives and second shots count on a par 3, 4 or 5
- 2-stroke penalty for each shot required and not hit
USGA guidelines:
4-player teams, add three high handicaps together and then divide by 12. Add this total to ½ of the low handicap. This format really evens the field.
EXAMPLE: Player A is a 2 handicap, B is a 10, C is an 18 and D is a 25. 10 + 18 + 25 = 53, divided by 12 = 4.4, ½ of 2 = 1, 4.4 + 1 = 5.4 = a team handicap of 5
OR:
20% of low + 15% of 2nd + 10% of 3rd + 5% of high. This equals 4.9 of a 5, 10, 18 & 25
OR:
50% of lowest handicap is the team handicap
2-Man Best 1-Ball
- 90% of each player’s handicap (not index) to be used for tournament
- 8-stroke differential (max.) a 10 and a 20 handicap may play as a team but the 20 must play as an 18 handicap
2-Man 2-Ball
- Partners stroke play
- Each player plays his own ball, and the combined total of their scores for the round is the score for the side
- 100% of combined course handicap. (page 44)
NCGA Qualifiers
Teams (or an individual) may win their flight and money but handicaps will be reduced to 90% of 18.4 (19 hdcp. at Poplar = 18 hdcp) if necessary and score adjusted accordingly.
The 18.4 Rule
- Play will be 90% of the course handicap using a maximum index of 18.4 for calculation.
- All players with indexes of 18.5 and above are eligible but must play to a maximum index of 18.4.
- Only one team advances.
- Teams with players with an index of 18.5 and above may win their flight and money but handicaps will be reduced to 90% of 18.4 (19 hdcp at Poplar = 18 hdcp) and score adjusted accordingly. If adjusted score is still the winning score the team may advance to the Sectional Qualifying, if not, the next low scoring team meeting the 18.4 qualifications will advance.
“Wrong” Star
- The “Wrong” Star must tee off first
- The “Wrong” star then plays the hole from tee to green and the remaining golfers play a scramble from tee to green
- At the completion of the hole you combine the score of the “Wrong” star with the score of the scramble playersExample:Woods (“Star”) scores a 4
Nicklaus, Palmer and Trevino score a 3
total of the two is 7 on this hole - Each player in your group must be the “Wrong” star a minimum of four (4) holes with a team total of 18 holes
- 25% of team handicap rounded up was used to determine tournament handicap
- The “Wrong” star plays his own ball and the scramble player’s play from one of the drives they hit and have selected
- You cannot play from the “Wrong” star drive. You must have 18 “Wrong” star holes
- Scramble players only: pick, clean and place in the same cut of grass. You may bump in a bunker
- Post “Wrong” stars score by the appropriate name & hole and the scramble scores on bottom-line where indicated
In the event of a question as to how to proceed a player may play 2 balls per USGA Rule #3-3 but he must use the following procedure.
- Announce to a competitor the intention to play a second ball
- Announce which ball he wants to score with if the rules permit
- Report all facts to the Committee unless both balls are the same score
Ties will be broken using the recommended USGA card matching procedures.
Point Par (Stableford)
- Individual
- 100% of course handicap (not index)
Use net score to determine points per hole
| Score (net) | Points |
| double bogey or more | -2 |
| bogey | -1 |
| par | 0 |
| birdie | +1 |
| eagle | +3 |
| double eagle | +5 |
Note: the points may change at tournament time
Razzle Dazzle
- 8-stroke differential (max.) a 10 and 20 handicap may play as a team but the 20 must play as an 18 handicap
- 20% of total combined handicaps (not index) to be used for tournament
- 1st thru 6th hole, scramble, *2 tee shots, *2 seconds shots per player
- 7th thru 12th hole, alternate shot. Par 3’s, 4’s and 5’s, each player hits tee ball, then his partner’s ball, and then select ball to play out the hole
- 13th thru 18th hole, best ball
- 2-stroke penalty for each shot required and not hit
Santa Ball
- Both an individual and a team event
- Teams are broken down into A, B, C and D players (by handicap)
- Each team will have designated ball known as the "Santa Ball"
- Players are assigned holes to play with the Santa Ball. For example, Player A may have to play hole #2 with the Santa Ball.
- The Santa Ball score counts towards both the individual and team scores.
- The Santa Ball must be returned back to the Committee at the end of the round. If the Santa Ball is lost at any point during the round, the team is disqualified from the team event; however, the team members are still in the individual event.