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Nominations will be accepted at venues from 23rd Feb, from Current Members only, for this years Challenge Cup which will be held at Gold Mountain on thursday 19th March 2009
It will be an 0845 tee-off but all nominated teams are to be at the course, registered and green fees paid by 0830 when your team will be ferried out to the relevant hole for a shotgun start.
A Nomination Fee of 200baht is to be paid by each member and nominations will close on 17th March 2009. Once your fee is paid your name will appear on the website and once your nominated team is fully paid up it will be listed on the website.
Teams will consist of 4 golfers from the same country of origin. You can nominate a team but they must comply with country of origin. If there are insufficient numbers from any individual country to make up a team then the team will be subject to committee approval and subsequent teams will be made up from the nomination list e.g., if insufficient from Norway, Sweden or Denmark then they will be combined to form a Scandinavian Team.
All teams will have a handicap which will be deducted from their gross team score at the end of the game to give a net result. The handicap will be 15% of the total of the teams club handicaps.
Winning Country and names will be engraved on the Perpetual Trophy. There will be cash prizes which will be determined by the number of nominations received and there will also be nearest the pin prizes.
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Rules
Each player must count three of his/her drives on the 14 par 4 or 5 holes and indicate on the score card. As there are four persons who must count three drives each (12 drives) in a team that will leave two holes/drives for the captain to decide.
The person whose drive is counted must mark his ball with a tee and the other three players must place their ball near the tee to take their teams second shot. The person whose drive was counted cannot be used for the second shot, it has to be one of the three other players. There is no restriction on third or fourth shots, any team members shot can be counted..
The four par threes have no restrictions. Any team members shot can be counted.
Once you are on the green and the best ball is chosen, it is to be marked and all four players will putt from that position. Each player will putt in turn and once the ball is in the hole that score will be counted. In other words if you putt a ball up to the edge of the hole for one and then tap it in without giving your team mates the chance to one putt then the score stands as two putts. So even if it is on the rim, mark it and give you team mates a chance at a one putt.
The course is trying to establish a narrow garden strip between some fairways and the rough, if you are on this narrow strip it is a free drop, beyond it too bad. If you are in the rough and in a V type indentation in the soil made by the tracks of heavy equipment establishing the course, you may take relief by removing the ball from the indentation and placing it as near as possible to its original position. A plugged ball may be lifted cleaned and placed no nearer the hole on all fairways and the usual relief from casual water. If you land in the wasteland between the 7th & 8th holes you may take a preferred lie as near as possible to the original position without penalty. Local rules apply for ‘out of bounds’ and ‘lost ball’ all other rules are as per the Royal and Ancient Rules of Golf.
