2015 SAMS LDS golf tournament rules

                                              2015    SAMS  LDS  golf tournament  rules

    Welcome,  "I don't care what  rules we play by  so long as we all play by the same rules." Ben Franklin
(Or so)

     RULE number one!   play fast,  the last  couple four-sums  will be  pushing darkness.
     a)  Play  "ready golf"  if you are ready  go  ahead and shoot, when you start putting,   putt it out,  as the other  guys are lining up their putts,  line yours up at the same time.
    b)  A couple  practice swings are all  you need, if that.

  As  intruduced last year, we again will play  the wildly popular  "Go for it Golf"  which means  we will play by all the golf scoring  rules except NO PENALTIES,  if your  drive goes in the water,  go to the place it entered the water or out of play,  drop your ball  and shoot  but no penalty.  So if your drive  hits the Channel 11 building, you can go to where it went  out drop your ball and you are shooting 2,  or  you can re-tee  but you are shooting 2 (not 3).  If your   ball is lost,  take a minute to find it than drop another,  no penalty, remember rule one  play fast. 

*since I like doing it and I don't want to break my clubs by driving it into the ground, you can tip  your ball  on the grass if you want.

HOWEVER:    NO Gimmies,  and   no Mulligans.  every shot counts, if you arrogantly  try to back hand that putt from 2  inches and miss  that shot counts! 

Team  competiton:  Nine hole competition  on the front nine.
    We will have teams of 4  using the MGBrown  format
Which means   1-2-3-4,1-2-3-4-4
    Each player  plays his own ball and keeps his individual score,  (that score will also count simultaneously  for the individual competition)  But the team score for the first hole will be  the players score with the best score. (best ball),  the second hole your team score will be the top two scores, third  top 3, forth everyone's score,  than start over,  the 9th  hole  everyone's score counts.

You need to keep two  score cards,  one for the team score that we will collect at the turn,  the other  continues on for the back nine  as the individual competition

(We will calculate the teams scores and post it on this blog sight. so check as you go)
SAMS LDS .blogspot.com  

Individual competition,   Continue on with your scores from the front nine to the back  nine,   We are still using  go for it golf rules for the individual  competition.

Valuable Prizes:  There will be valuable  prizes (all donated)  for:
*   Team  competition winners
*  Individual  champion
*   player with the highest score (worse golfer, highly coveted, it means you have a life)
*   player who loses the most balls (prodigal ball rule)  if it goes out of play and you find it... that is still a "lost ball". so keep track
skills competition:  all on designated  holes  during  your round (all  shots must be on the fairway for Longest drive, or on the green for closest to the pin.)
*2  long drive  contests
* 2  closest to the pin contests
* 2  longest putt contests

*  Finally,   the final one putt one putt only  for  the most valuable prize (seriously valued  at  nearly $50).

* ONE LAST NEW RULE. KNOCK OUT RULE  This will make it possible for even the worse golfers to possibly win.
Any one getting a hole in one (and it has happened  in the church tournament by a Bishops  wife playing her second round ever.)   WINS!
SO when you are done, wait for everyone else to finish, we will calculate winners and hand out prizes than we will have the one final  One putt one putt only contest, with a seriously  valuable prize (valued at nearly $50)

 Good luck,  have fun,   Remember to keep it moving  it gets way dark  at  8:15  so  we gotta be done  with the front 9  by 6:10  or so.


 
However,