The Rules of the Club

As set down by the Rules Committee (one person), who may amend them at any time, usually after losing.

1. Membership

1. Membership is exclusive. To anyone who asks.
2. Mary Lin families, Candler Park neighbors, and friends of members are all welcome.
3. Membership is free. If the club ever charges for anything, every dollar goes to the Mary Lin PTO.
4. Members play at their own risk. The club is a group of friends, not an organization.

2. Posting a Round

1. Declare before you play. Tap Tee It Up on the site before your tee time and list your playing partner(s). Rounds declared after the tee time don't count.
2. Never alone. You must play with at least one other person for the round to count. They don't have to be a member.
3. Your partner attests. After the round, post your score. Your partner taps one link to confirm it. Unattested scores expire after 7 days.
4. 9 or 18. Post 9-hole rounds as 9. If you go around twice, post 18.
5. Pick up at triple bogey. For handicap purposes, no hole counts for more than triple bogey. Picking up is pace-of-play heroism.

3. Handicaps

1. GHIN players: enter your Handicap Index from the GHIN app. Keep it current, updated at least monthly.
2. Everyone else: the club calculates a league handicap from your posted rounds (best 3 of your last 5). You'll have one after three rounds.
3. Each round locks in the handicap used that day. Later changes never rewrite past results.
4. Sandbagging is beneath a member of this club. The Rules Committee is watching. The Rules Committee is also a 24.

4. The Seasons

The club plays two seasons a year:

June and July are the offseason. Play all you want; nothing counts.

Each season has three boards:

• Gross: your actual score. Bragging rights.
• Net: your score minus your handicap.
• Season Points: points for every round you post and bonus points for beating your handicap. Majors count double. This board sets the Championship seeds.

5. Qualifying

1. Six rounds. Post at least 6 qualifying rounds between the season's first and last day to qualify for its Championship.
2. A qualifying round is declared before you play and attested by your partner (Section 2). A 9-hole round and an 18-hole round each count as one.
3. Club events count, including Majors and Family Scrambles.
4. Rounds never carry over from one season to the next.

6. The Championship

1. Singles match play. Qualifiers are seeded by Season Points and paired one-on-one: #1 vs #2, #3 vs #4, #5 vs #6, and so on down the list.
2. #1 vs #2 plays for the title. Every other match decides the places below it: the winner of #3 vs #4 finishes third, and so on.
3. Net. The higher handicap gets the difference in course handicaps, one stroke per hole starting from the hardest holes.
4. All square after 9? Keep playing from hole 1 until someone wins a hole.
5. Must be there to win. A qualifier who can't make Championship Day gives up their seed, and everyone below moves up one.
6. Odd number of players? The last seed plays the course: net par is their opponent.
7. The Spring Championship is the Founders' Cup. The Fall Champion gets the Jacket. Both names go on the Honors Board forever.

7. Conduct

1. Keep up. If the group behind you is waiting on every shot, wave them through.
2. Repair your divots and ball marks. Candler Park is our clubhouse; treat it that way.
3. Kids are always welcome. So is patience.
4. Mulligans are permitted on the first tee only, and only if you announce it with sufficient drama.
5. What happens on the 19th hole is discussed at length in the group chat.

8. Dress Code

Shoes required. Collars optional. Spirit mandatory.