Handicapping Notice

Although local scores are not valid to your official handicap between December 1 and February 28, you are under obligation per the USGA Handicap System, the OGA and your club to post rounds played in year-round golf associations if you travel throughout the winter. This is crucial to maintaining accurate handicaps and promoting fair play. To do our part, we will provide off-season updates to your Handicap Indexes on January 1 and February 1, 2011.  Click Here to Learn How to Post Scores in Sunbelt States

Thanks for your cooperation, and have a great winter!  The 2010 golf season will commence on Monday, March 1st. 

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Occasional local abnormal conditions that might interfere with fair play and are not widespread may be defined as “ground under repair” (Rules of Golf, Rule 25 - Abnormal Ground Conditions, Embedded Ball and Wrong Putting Green). Please check out www.usga.org under Rules for a detail of GUR.

Remember that as time goes on and the weather worsens, if an individual golfer invokes some sort of Preferred Lie when we are in season he/she still must post their score. We encourage Handicap Committees to make it part of their Handicapping Policy to be specific in describing conditions in which a local rule may be invoked when needed, to help protect the course or to promote fair and pleasant play. (USGA Handicap System Manual 2008-2011, Section 7, Preferred Lies, p.47).

Click Here and Help us spread the word about the correct procedure when finding it absolutely necessary to touch the ball and the correct use of Preferred Lies/Winter Rules - especially as it applies to the USGA Handicap System.

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