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It is clear that a significant number of our members, due to increasing demands in their working and family life, are unable to play 18 hole Qualifying Competitions frequently enough to establish and maintain a handicap representative of their potential ability.
With this in mind, we applied to England Golf for a measured Nine-Hole course for Men played over holes 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14 & 15 and we are pleased to inform you that our application was approved today.
Here’s the Nine-Hole scorecard complete with stroke indexes. I’ve shown the actual hole alongside in brackets.
HOLE: 1 (1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 4 (7) 5 (8) 6 (12) 7 (13) 8 (14) 9 (15) OUT
YARDS 297 173 487 281 408 405 363 519 191 3124
PAR 4 3 5 4 4 4 4 5 3 36
SI 6 9 3 8 2 4 7 1 5
This choice of holes makes for a very balanced card off the white tees with 2 x Par 5, 2 x Par 3 and 5 x Par 4 with a Par of 36.
It also makes for relatively easy walking by starting on the 1st tee and finishing on the 15th, cutting out 4, 5 & 6 with the long walk to 7, the loop around 9, 10 & 11 and 16,17 & 18.
We anticipate that Nine-Hole Qualifying Competitions will prove to be very popular on Summer evenings and during the restricted daylight hours of late Autumn, Winter and early Spring. We would also expect to see more Senior members using these competitions to make returns for handicapping purposes. Our Thursday Comp could possibly become a Nine-Hole Competition allowing our members to enter after work knowing that they will complete their round.
There’s still a fair amount of work to do in setting up the handicapping software, getting scorecards printed etc, but we hope that our members will look forward to enjoying this added benefit of playing a more leisurely 9 holes to maintain a handicap.
CONGU Section 22: NINE-HOLE QUALIFYING COMPETITIONS is to be applied.
You can find full details of Section 22 at http://www.englandgolf.org/e-brochure/index.html and you will note that:-
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All Nine Hole Qualifying Competitions must be in Stableford format.
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Only players in Handicap Categories 2,3,4 and (5) may return Nine-Hole scores for handicap purposes.
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A Cat 1 player may participate and his score should be recorded in his Player Handicap Record. No adjustment in handicap shall be applied i.e. his score must be disregarded for handicap purposes.
N.B.
TGC Ladies have had an approved 9 hole course for a couple of years.
John Drabble
Hon. Secretary
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