Competition Rules

CONTENTS


Trophy Competitions


Monthly Medal
Summer / Winter Stableford
Eric Clack Memorial Trophy
Hot Toddy Trophy
Lan-Com Trophy
Reg Mills Memorial Trophy
Steve Putt Trophy
Invotech Trophy
Seniors' Section Championship
Gavin Brown Trophy
Wilf Shirley Memorial Trophy
Ewart Chitty Memorial Trophy
Ryderless Cup
U-Boat Trophy
Summer KO Trophy
Seniors' Section Masters

Team / Pairs Competitions


3s, 4s & 5s
Bowmaker
Eric's Competition
Teasing Stableford / Strokeplay
Texas Scramble
Yellow Peril

Monthly Medal

  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Golf Club, aged 55yrs and over on the day of the competition, who hold an active/competition handicap.
  2. Format – 18 Hole Strokeplay
  3. Tees - White
  4. Handicap - Full

Summer / Winter Stableford

  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Golf Club, aged 55yrs and over on the day of the competition, who hold an active/competition handicap.
  2. Format – 18 Hole Stableford
  3. Tees - White in Summer Yellow in Winter (at committee's discretion)
  4. Handicap - Full
  5. This is essentially a monthly stableford competition. The Summer / Winter Stableford Trophies are awarded to the players with the best 3 aggregate scores from the available rounds played through the Summer and Winter periods.
  6. In the event of a tie the highest stableford score wins, if there is still a tie the highest best 2 scores count and so on until a winner is found

Eric Clack Memorial Trophy

  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Golf Club, aged 55yrs and over on the day of the competition, who hold an active/competition handicap.
  2. Format – 18 Hole Stableford
  3. Tees - Yellow
  4. Handicap - Full
  5. History - His wife, Marion, in memory of Eric, presented this trophy to the Section. He was an original Senior Section member, first vice-captain and particularly liked playing stableford golf. This is normally played in February.

Hot Toddy Trophy

  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Golf Club, aged 55yrs and over on the day of the competition, who hold an active/competition handicap.
  2. Format – 18 Hole Strokeplay
  3. Tees - White
  4. Handicap - Full
  5. History - Denise Todd, who was one-time Functions Manager, particularly enjoyed working with the Seniors Section to whom she presented this cup on leaving Witney Lakes in 2005. This is normally played in March.

Lan–Com Trophy

  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Golf Club, aged 55yrs and over on the day of the competition, who hold an active/competition handicap.
  2. Format – 18 Hole Strokeplay
    On each tee, any TWO clubs can be selected to be used alternately, until you are within the proximity of the green. If you choose to putt off the green, and the ball does not reach the green, you then have to use the next club in rotation. Once on the green, the putter can be used as many times as necessary to hole out.
    An air shot counts as a stroke, therefore the second attempt is made using your next chosen club.
    An out-of-bounds shot is played using the same club as the first attempt, as a stroke is lost this represents a shot using the second club.
    If a ball is in a hazard and a drop is taken, the next shot is also taken using the same club that was used when the ball entered the hazard.
    A provisional ball is also played using the same club as the original, and taking alternate clubs until the original ball is found, and the hole played out as normal.
    Should you inadvertently use the same club consecutively, this incurs a TWO-stroke penalty.
  3. Tees - Yellow
  4. Handicap - Full
  5. History – This game is the brainchild of John Courtney, a Senior Section member. It is normally played in March. John donated the magnificent rose bowl trophy and he also funds all the keepsake trophies and engraving, for this competition.
    All match fees collected, for this game, are donated to the Captain's Charity.

Reg Mills Memorial Trophy

  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Golf Club, aged 55yrs and over on the day of the competition, who hold an active/competition handicap.
  2. Format - Stableford
  3. Tees - Yellow
  4. Handicap - Full
  5. History - His family, in memory of Reg, presented this trophy to the Section in 2012. Reg was a long serving and popular member of the seniors section who particularly enjoyed playing Stableford. In his latter years, Reg admitted to struggling when playing in 'white tee' competitions and for that reason his trophy competition is played off the yellows. This is a Stableford competition, played in April.

Steve Putt Trophy

  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Golf Club, aged 55yrs and over on the day of the competition, who hold an active/competition handicap.
  2. Format – 18 Hole Strokeplay
  3. Tees - White
  4. Handicap - Full
  5. History - Steve, as stand-in green keeper, noticed many seniors enjoying golf in the very early days at Witney Lakes. He managed to call them all together and suggested they played an individual Stroke Play competition amongst themselves. From that the trophy grew, as has Steve Putt in his work for all of us here at Witney Lakes Golf. Steve is now the Course Manager. This competition is played in May.

Invotech Trophy

to be replaced by

The Bill Woodbridge Memorial Trophy
  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Golf Club, aged 55yrs and over on the day of the competition, who hold an active/competition handicap.
  2. Format – 18 Hole Strokeplay
  3. Tees - White
  4. Handicap - Full
  5. History - Invotech Ltd, a local Witney business providing engineering services, presented this trophy to the Section. It is a Stroke Play competition played in June.
  6. More info on Bill Woodbridge to follow

Seniors Section Championships

  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Seniors Section, who have played in at least three Seniors Section (Handicap) Qualifying competitions in the 12 months prior to the championships or who have won a Seniors Section Trophy in that same time period and who hold an active/competition handicap. As stipulated in Seniors Section Rule 4.4.
  2. Format – 36 Hole Strokeplay, played over two days, usually Tuesday & Thursday of the first week in July.
  3. Tees - White
  4. Handicap - Full
  5. History – Three trophies are competed for, they are;
    Lowest Gross - The Claret Jug    . Rae Comley gave this trophy to the Section when he was Seniors Captain in 2005. It goes to the player scoring the lowest overall gross score.
    Lowest Nett - The Bennett Cup. Mark Bennett, who was the original golf professional at Witney Lakes, presented this trophy for the lowest overall nett score.
    Veterans Lowest Nett - The Bill Graves Trophy. Named after Bill Graves, a long time member of the Seniors who has served as both Captain and Committee chairman on more than one ccasion, this trophy is exclusively for our veteran members, those aged 70 and above. It is presented for the lowest overall nett score.

Gavin Brown Trophy

  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Golf Club, aged 55yrs and over on the day of the competition, who hold an active/competition handicap.
  2. Format – 18 Hole Strokeplay
  3. Tees - White
  4. Handicap - Full
  5. History - Gavin is a Director of Witney Lakes Resort and presented the seniors with this trophy. This is a Strokeplay competition played in August.

Wilf Shirley Memorial Trophy

  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Golf Club, aged 55yrs and over on the day of the competition, who hold an active/competition handicap.
  2. Format – 18 Hole Stableford
  3. Tees - White
  4. Handicap - Full
  5. History - Wilf was one of the founder members of the Seniors Section and was a Club Course Ranger. He gave this shield as the first stableford competition trophy. A stableford event played in September.

Ewart Chitty Memorial Trophy

  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Golf Club, aged 70yrs and over on the day of the competition, who hold an active/competition handicap.
  2. Format – 18 Hole Stableford
  3. Tees - Yellow
  4. Handicap - Full
  5. History - Named after Ewart Chittey, a long time member of the Seniors and former committee secretary, this trophy is for veteran members only (those aged 70 or above). This is a stableford competition played in September or October.

Ryderless Cup – Captain vs Vice-Captain

  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Golf Club, aged 55yrs and over on the day of the competition, who hold an active/competition handicap.
  2. Format – Pairs Matchplay, 4-Ball Better Ball
  3. Tees - Yellow
  4. Handicap – Strokes received, ¾ Handicap difference, off the lowest handicap player in group.
  5. History - Following the destruction of New York's Twin Towers in 2001 Ryder Cup was cancelled. This trophy marks that cancellation and was introduced by Bill Graves when he was captain in 2002. This match, between a Captain's team and a Vice-Captain's team, is played towards the end of September.

U-Boat Knock-OutTrophy

  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Golf Club, aged 55yrs and over on the day of the competition, who hold an active/competition handicap.
  2. Format – Pairs Matchplay, 4-Ball Better Ball
  3. Pairs are drawn at random, with the exception of the previous year's winners who will be paired together to defend their title.
  4. Tees - Yellow
  5. Handicap – Strokes received, 90% Handicap difference, off the lowest handicap player in group.
  6. History - Malcolm (Mac) Savage, another original member of the Seniors and the Section's first treasurer, presented this German U-Boat key as a trophy. The key itself is a valve handle for the control of air to the ballast tanks of a submarine and came from U-85, which surrendered in Dec. 1918 after the end of World War I. This is a winter 4BBB, knock-out competition, which starts in November.

The Summer Knock-Out

  1. Open to all Male members of Witney Lakes Golf Club, aged 55yrs and over at the start of the competition, who hold an active/competition handicap.
  2. Format – Individual Matchplay
  3. Tees - Yellow
  4. Handicap – Strokes received, Full handicap difference.
  5. History – First played for in 2013, this competition was instigated by seniors section committee member Alan Lake.

Seniors Section Masters

  1. Open to current members of the Seniors Section, who hold an active/competition handicap and have qualified under one or more of the following criteria;
    1. All past Masters Champions
    2. Overall highest points scorers of each of current year's Winter/Summer Stableford rounds.
    3. Current year's Monthly Medal winners.
    4. Current holders of all 'boarded' competitions
    5. Current year's Away Day winners
    6. Last 5 Seniors Section Champions (Lowest Gross)
    7. Current year Bennett Cup Winner (Lowest Nett at Seniors Section Champs)
    8. Current year U-Boat Pairs Matchplay winners
    9. Top 3 Players, including ties, in the previous year’s Masters
    10. Current year Summer KO Singles Matchplay winner 'Current Year' refers to Nov – Oct.
  2. Format – 18 Hole Strokeplay
  3. Tees - White
  4. Handicap - Full
  5. History – Introduced, without any formally documented qualifying criteria, in 2011, by then captain, Barry Holmes. It was played again in 2012, using a different set of criteria for qualification and then dropped by the captain in 2013. Re-introduced in 2014, by captain Glyn Rees, with the above eligibility criteria agreed and documented by the section committee.

Team / Pairs Competitions


3's, 4's & 5's


This is a stableford game played in teams of three, off full handicap.

All three team members score on the par 3s
Any two team members score on the par 4s
Any one team member scores on the par 5s

The scorecard must show the gross scores & stableford points for each player, the total for the hole and the final total for 18 holes.

Bowmaker


This is a stableford game played in teams of three, off full handicap.

Any one team member scores on holes 1 - 6
Any two team members score on holes 7 - 12
All three team members score on holes 13 - 18

The scorecard must show the gross scores & stableford points for each player, the total for the hole and the final total for 18 holes.


Eric's Competition


This is an Individual competition.

The front nine holes are played strokeplay; i.e. Gross score for the front 9 minus 1/2 (rounded-up) handicap.
The back nine holes are played stableford.

At the end of the game the score recorded is the difference between the front and back. Par would be nett 36 - 18 pts = 18 anything less than this is probably a winning score.

Teasing Stableford / Strokeplay


This can be played as an individual or team game.

Players play from the three different tees (White / Yellow / Red) in rotation, in the order determined, on the sign sheet, on the day.

When playing off the red tee the Mens Stroke Index is still used.

Texas Scramble


Each team will consist of three or four players. Strokes received equals exactly 1/6 (3/team), or 1/10 (4/team), of combined playing handicaps.
All players can tee off at each hole.
The nominated team captain then selects the best drive and marks the position (within 6 inches) with a tee peg (not nearer the hole). A minimum of five (3/team), or four (4/team), tee shots per player to be used. The other players then retrieve their balls.
The player whose ball has been chosen then plays his next shot first. The remaining players then play within six inches of the tee peg (not nearer the hole). Note! Golf balls shall be placed on closely mown areas and dropped if the chosen ball in play is in the rough or a hazard.
The above method of play is followed until the green is reached. On the green the same method applies. The ball chosen is marked by a putter head length and players putt from the same spot in turn. Each player must mark the ball after putting.
Play continues from each chosen position until the ball is holed.
The score is the total number of shots from the chosen spots (including the tee shot).
Note! If a player putts and misses but then inadvertently knocks the ball into the hole, then that score counts.
At the end of the round the total for each hole is added together and the strokes received subtracted to give the total net medal score for the round.
The winning team will be the one with the lowest medal score.
All other rules of golf apply to the “Ball in Play” In particular please be aware of Rule 14.2. Team members are not allowed to position themselves on or close to an extension of the line of play or the line of putt behind the ball.


Yellow Peril


This is a stableford team game, usually played with 3 man teams. Each player playing off full handicap.
Each player, in rotation (order to be decided before teeing off on the first), plays the hole with the 'nominal' Yellow Ball.
All team members scores count on all holes. The player with the 'Yellow Ball' scores double points for that hole.
However... if the 'Yellow Ball' is lost* then that player scores Zero points for that hole only. His team mates scores still count.
*Definition of 'Lost': The Yellow Ball is lost if -
  1. It is Out Of Bounds, inc. Internal OOB.
  2. It is in a Water Hazard (Yellow Stakes), regardless of whether there is any water in the hazard.
  3. It is in a Lateral Water Hazard (Red Stakes), regardless of whether there is any water in the hazard.
  4. The ball is lost, through the green, and not found within 5 minutes. This means... No need to play a Provisional!!

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