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COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE
An additional section concerning a Complaints Procedure has been added to the Constitution, please could everyone read through and note the content, at John's request as the Society Secretary.
This has been introduced to avoid any potential unintended miscommunications through the WhatsApp Group.
EVENT GUESTS
The Website doesn't have the facility to accommodate the addition of Event Guests, so, if you do have a Guest accompanying you to any Event, please could you advise via the WhatsApp Group so that Doyley can monitor final numbers to advise the Club and Benno can check off additional payments made on line.
SHAW HILL, MARCH 24TH 2019
Bit of a tough start to the 2019 Season at Shaw Hill what with coping with fairway mats and a cold biting breeze, but a lovely course all the same.
Official winner on the day was Paul Mellor with 30 points, just shading Andy Miller on the same score thanks to a superior back 9 countback.
One of our new Members, Martin Booth, did score an excellent 31 points to card the highest score of the day, which will count towards his first 3 cards-in for Handicap assessment, the Committee are watching closely Martin!!
Hitting the bar on 27 points and getting off to a good 2019 start were, jointly, Mark McNally, Darren White and Josh Watmough (a very warm welcome back to Josh from everyone!)
Darren also went home a bit richer after taking the cash on two of the NTPs, with Mark getting the third
The first 2019 Winner of our wonderful goose, plus a bonus prize of '501 Excuses For A Bad Golf Shot', with 15 points was a very proud Danny Parr.
For the full album of Shaw Hill photos click here
Rule Changes for 2019
As everyone will probably know by now the USGA and The R&A have introduced significant changes effective from 1st January 2019.
• The number of Rules have reduced from 34 to 24.
• The rules are written in modern and plain style and language
• A key driver of the changes is to increase pace of play.
For your information, here is a summary:
Search time - Reduced from five minutes to three minutes.
Ball moved during search - Replace with no penalty.
Embedded ball - Free relief anywhere through the green.
Measuring a drop - Use longest club (except putter).
Dropping - Drop from knee height rather than from shoulder height.
Taking stance on the wrong green is no longer allowed.
Ball unintentionally hits player or equipment - No penalty.
Double hit - No penalty; now counts as only one shot.
Touching sand in bunker other than immediately in front or behind the ball or on the back swing is now permitted.
Loose impediments can be removed anywhere including hazards.
Dropping a ball outside of a bunker - two penalty strokes.
Water hazards - Now called “Penalty Areas.”
Touching ground in penalty area - No penalty.
Ball moves on green after being marked - Replace without penalty.
Ball accidentally moved on putting green - Replace without penalty.
All damage to green can now be repaired.
Positioning a club for alignment is not permitted.
Caddie assisting with alignment is now not permitted.
Putting with flag stick in the hole is now permitted.
Ball wedged between the flag stick and the side of the hole is deemed as holed.
There is also a new OPTIONAL LOCAL rule for dropping a ball for Lost Ball or Out of Bounds, our Society will be using this.
I believe there are new Players Editions of the Rules of Golf with increased use of diagrams to explain the rules available in a lot of Clubs which might be worth getting hold of if you can, but in any case, please have a good read through in readiness for our first knock at Shaw Hill.
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