Submitting Scores for Handicap over the Winter months.

Submitting Scores for Handicap Purposes over the Winter months.

For a score to be valid for handicapping purposes the course requires to be set up so that:

·         Tee markers are within 10 yards of their measured points.

·         The course remains within one hundred yards of its officially measured distance.

·         No more than 2 temporary greens are in play.

·         Any bunkers that are out of play are clearly marked GUR. 

Daily the greenkeepers will advise the starters whether the course is set up to enable scores to be submitted and what tees can be used for that purpose.  Members who intend to submit a general play score on any given day are requested to check in with the starters before commencing their round to ascertain: 

1.       Whether the course has been set up to enable a score to be submitted.

2.       What tees can be used for that purpose.

3.       Whether compulsory mats or preferred lies are required. 

Scottish Golf have confirmed that scores can be returned when the compulsory use of fairway mats is required to protect the natural surface of the course and in such circumstances the following local rule will apply. 

‘When a player’s ball lies in a part of the general area cut to fairway height or less and a putter is not being used for the stroke the ball must be lifted, placed on, and played from an Astroturf or similar type of mat.  The mat must be placed as near as possible to where the ball originally lay, and the ball must be placed on the mat.  The ball may be cleaned when lifted.  If a ball when placed rolls off the mat the player must try to place it a second time.  If the ball again does not stay on the mat, the mat must be moved to the nearest spot, not nearer the hole, where the ball will come to rest on the mat when placed.   If the player accidentally causes the ball on the mat to move before a stroke is made there is no penalty, and the ball must be placed again on the mat.  If a tee is used to secure the mat into the ground the ball must not be placed on the tee.’ 

Preferred lies may only be used on closely mown areas (i.e. fairways) when compulsory use of mats is not required.