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WESTSIDE SENIOR INTERCLUB
GOLF ASSOCIATION
By-Laws
The Westside Senior Interclub Golf
Association (“WSIGA”) is a self directed and administered organization composed
of Senior (aged 50 years or more) golfers from The Club at Falcon Point, Fort
Bend Country Club, Pecan Grove Plantation Country Club, Quail Valley Golf
Course, Sweetwater Country Club, Weston Lakes Country Club and Willow Fork
Country Club (the “Member Clubs”).
WSIGA shall have no more than eight (8) Member Clubs at one time. Membership preference is given to
private country clubs located within a modest sized geographic area.
WSIGA has been created to organize
competitive golfing events among Senior golfers from the Member Clubs and to
promote fellowship, fair play and equal consideration for all participants
during those events.
Each Member Club shall name one (1) Senior
golfer as its Representative and one (1) Senior golfer as its Alternate to the
Governing Board, which Governing Board shall make all decisions necessary as to
matters affecting competition and amenities related to play at WSIGA
events.
All decisions by the Governing Board,
including changes to the provisions of these By-Laws, will be by simple majority
of those voting on any issue. Each Member Club shall have one (1) vote which
shall be cast by its Representatives, or by a club’s Alternate in case that
club’s Representative cannot cast the vote.
The Governing Board shall meet in person in
January of each year and at such other times as needed upon call of the
Commissioner. Discussion of matters
by email and voting by email are encouraged.
A Senior player from a Member Club shall
serve as Commissioner of the Governing Board. The Commissioner shall be in
communication with Representatives, Alternates and Club Pros as appropriate to
address issues as he sees them develop or as they are brought to his attention
by Representatives of the Member Clubs. He shall chair debate, whether by email
or during meetings in person, on such issues and call for, tally and announce
votes on such matters as needed.
One Representative or
Alternate shall serve as Vice Commissioner of the Governing Board and
shall be responsible for calculating and disseminating statistics showing the
competitive position of all Member Clubs after each event. Member Clubs shall take ordered turns
providing the Vice Commissioner.
The Member Club which
provides the Vice Commissioner in any year shall provide the Commissioner
in the following year.
The Governing Board shall appoint a
Webmaster to create and maintain a site for the posting of player lists and
results and other uses which may benefit Senior players from all Member
Clubs.
When play is at their home course,
Representatives are responsible for event co-ordination with the host pro shop
and food manager and for the reporting of results to the Vice Commissioner. At all events Representatives are
responsible to post a list of players and Handicap Indices on the web site
before 9:00 a.m. on the third day prior to an event and to see that fees are paid by check or
cash to the host club pro shop.
Each Member Club will host one (1) event
each calendar year. The month of
play at each Member Club will be constant each year and Representatives from the
Member Clubs will advise the Vice Commissioner of the specific date of play at
their facilities late in the year prior to the year of play. No event will be held during January,
July, August or December.
Eight (8) Senior golfers who are active
members of their club’s Senior organization (if their club has such an
organization) will compose a team from each Member Club, although teams as few
in number as five (5) may compete.
On-course groups will be 3-somes
to the extent possible. The
selection of on-course groups is left to each host club, but random selection on
an A / B / C basis from all participants is encouraged. Players will tee off at 9:00 a.m.
One (1) Pro from each Member Club will be
welcome to sign up and play at each event.
However, Pro’s are not part of a Member Club’s team and the details of
their play and individual $50
cost are left to them to work out with the various Member Clubs.
Details of play are given in the Appendix to
this document.
Visiting Member Clubs will pay $400
to the host club to participate in an event. Host club players will pay $280. The host club will allocate $160
to food, $120 to prizes and $120 to cart costs, range balls and green fees for
each visiting club and $160
to food and $120 to prizes for host club players. Host club players will pay their club an
amount for carts, range balls and green fees equal to each member’s normal cost
to play at home during the week.
A Member Club that cannot field a team for
an event and notifies the host club Rep, the host club Pro and the Vice
Commissioner of that fact before 9:00 a.m. on the third day prior to the event, will not
be responsible for any fees for that event. A Member Club that withdraws, with or without
notice, after 9:00 a.m. on the third day prior to an event shall send the
host club a check for $160 for late withdrawal. Should a Member Club fail to field a
team three (3) times during any calendar year, that club shall be removed from
WSIGA membership.
The host club will provide coffee for
arriving guests and a respectable lunch after play that excludes hamburgers and
hot dogs while including desert and two (2) beers per player or an available
keg. Two (2) free soft drinks or
waters, or one (1) Gatorade type drink, will be available to players for use
during play.
The host club pro shop will accept fees as
players arrive, provide a scoreboard in the lunch room, arrange for carts and
range balls, create on-course groups from players posted on the web site, print
scorecards and create prize certificates that may be redeemed in the pro
shop.
Certificates that may be redeemed for
merchandise in the host pro shop will be awarded to players on the top three (3)
teams and to four
(4) individuals at each event.
Individual
awards will be based on “closest to the pin” at par 3 holes. Pro shop merchandise shall be sold at
“member prices” or at a discount of at least 20% from full retail if the host
pro shop does not utilize “member prices”.
Each
player shall receive all prize money for which he qualifies. The attached Appendix details prize
payouts.
A rotating plaque will be awarded to the best performing Member Club each year and kept by that club until a different Member Club wins the competition is a subsequent year.
These By-Laws, including the attached
Appendix, were passed by vote of the Member Clubs as of January
17, 2012, and will remain in effect until amended by further vote of the
Member Clubs.
A team is composed of 8 Senior players. No player may represent more than one
(1) Member Club in any calendar year.
USGA rules shall apply to play along with local rules printed on the host
club scorecard.
Each player will play his own ball with 100%
handicap. Handicap shall be
determined from each player’s periodically published Handicap Index effective
5 days prior to the date of play and the slope of the host course. Maximum allowed handicap is 36.
Play will be on a course of 6000 - 6300
yards.
Individual scoring will be Stableford – 0
for net double bogey or worse, 1 for net bogey, 2 for net par, 3 for net birdie,
4 for net eagle and 5 for net double eagle.
Ties
for team place will be broken by comparing the Stableford points of the sixth
highest scorers on the tied teams, or the seventh highest scorers if necessary,
or the eighth highest scorers if necessary, or by scorecard playoff in handicap
hole order of the highest scoring individuals on the tied teams if necessary. Ties for “closest to the pin” will be
won by the first player to reach the tie position.
TEAM SCORE will be the sum of the 5 highest
individual player scores on a team.
For
purposes of calculating TEAM SCORE, an individual player’s score will be deemed
to be all Stableford points earned up to 36 points and ˝ point for each
Stableford point above 36. For
example, a player scoring 40 Stableford points will contribute 38 points (36 + 4
half points) to TEAM SCORE for his club.
At the first event of the year, each team
will be given a “Quota” of 180 (5 players x 36, which is the score a player
makes by shooting all net pars).
At the end of the event, each team’s Quota
shall be subtracted from their TEAM SCORE to see by how much each team exceeded,
or failed to exceed, their Quota.
TEAM PLACE in the event shall be determined
by best performance versus Quota. 8
points are awarded to the best performing team, 7 to the second best and so
on. No points are awarded to a “no
show” team.
Each team’s Quota is then modified by adding
half the excess (or subtracting half the deficit) of their TEAM SCORE versus
their current Quota. The modified
Quota becomes the team’s target at the next event.
Example: In the first event team A had a TEAM
SCORE of 200. Since this is 20 higher than their first event Quota of
180, their second event Quota will become 190.
Example: In the first event team B had a TEAM
SCORE of 165. Since this is 15 lower than their first event Quota of
180, their second event Quota will become 172.5.
All calculations involving Quotas are
rounded to the nearest 0.5 .
The team with the most cumulative points
based on performance versus Quota at all events will be the winner of the
competition for the year.
CANCELLATION, INTERRUPTION AND
SCORING
Cancellation
If the weather forecast looks bad for the
following day’s event, the host club should cancel by 6:45
p.m. If the event day’s weather looks
favorable but turns overnight or early the next morning and golf cannot be
played, the host club must cancel by 6:45
a.m. NOTE: If the event is not cancelled
early and players arrive, and if the event is thereafter cancelled prior to the
start of play or during play, players will be charged for brunch/lunch and
should stay until served.
Interruption of Play
All players must complete nine holes of play
for the event to count. If not, the
event will be rescheduled for the host club’s rain date.
Scoring in Case of
Interruption
Those players having completed the most
number of holes will be determined.
All other players will add 2 Stableford points to uncompleted hole(s) to
reach that same number of holes played.
Protocol for Cancellation
Once the host club Pro and Representative have communicated and decided it is necessary to cancel:
(1) Host Pro calls the other pros.
(2) Host Rep calls the Webmaster first to post cancellation on the web site.
(3) Host Rep emails all Reps, Alternates and Pros.
(4) Host Rep calls Commissioner, Vice Commissioner and other Reps to confirm cancellation.
(5) Each Rep calls his team members.
(6)
Host Rep calls food service.
Green Light
If the weather is favorable and we are
playing as scheduled, the host Rep will call the Webmaster by 6:45
a.m. the morning of the event so that a “GO” can be posted on the web
site.
NOTE: All Reps and
Alternates should pay attention to the web site the evening prior to and the
morning of an event. They should
advise their team to do the same and NOT call the host club if play is in
question.
If
there is no cancellation posted by 7:00 p.m. the prior evening, then play is a
“GO” up to that point. If the
weather is questionable, everyone should check again at 7:00 a.m. the morning of
play.
Payout Credits at
the Host Club Pro Shop
8 teams playing 7 teams playing 6 teams playing
($960.00 in prizes) ($840.00 in prizes) ($720.00 in prizes)
1st (8 players) - $50 each 1st (8 players) - $45 each 1st (8 players) - $40 each
2nd (8 players) - $35 each 2nd (8 players) - $31 each 2nd (8 players) - $27 each
3rd (8 players) - $20 each 3rd (8 players) - $17 each 3rd (8 players) - $14 each
Closest to the Pin
4 individuals - $30 each 4 individuals - $24 each 4 individuals - $18 each