GOLF LEAGUE
2026 GOLF LEAGUE RULES
President: Jack Wagner
Vice President: Scott Patton
Secretary: Mark Wilde
The league officers are the rules committee.
First night is scheduled for: April 13th
2026
League w/carts fees: $440.00 (make checks payable to,
777 Golf League.)
We are playing at Pine
View Golf Course, located at 5820 Stony Creek, Ypsilanti. We will be
using team averages to determine points, and averages will be established on
the first night of golf. As you play, please keep one scorecard for the entire
foursome. Mark Wilde will calculate the averages and points for the first night
of golf. After that, each foursome will be expected to calculate their own
points. Directions for scoring begin on page 2.
Your league fee is to be paid in full to Jack Wagner by the first night, or earlier. Please review these rules
as soon as possible. If you have any comments or concerns, please let Jack know
prior to the first night.
Personal
coolers are not allowed on the golf course. All alcoholic beverages must be
purchased at the golf course. Failure to comply may result in the loss of our
tee time and golf fees.
SCHEDULE
AND MATCHES
Our golfing season will run from April 13th thru August 24th, 2026. (plus any extra time
due to rain outs and holidays)
Once we have all players signed up, a schedule of tee
times will be published for the entire season. Please save that sheet and refer
to it for your teams tee times.
The league tee times are from 4:32 pm to 5:12 pm.
We will be golfing on one nine per night.
We will not be golfing on Memorial
Day May 25, 2026, The week of July 4th, or Labor Day Sept 7th.
Our golf outing has not been planned. Anyone interested in running on please let
the league officers know.
Please show up at the golf course as scheduled,
regardless of what the weather looks like. Any decision to cancel or suspend
league night play due to weather must be made by the golf course. The only
exception is when lightening is present; in that event any player can suspend
play if the course has not already done so. If we have been told by the course
is closed due to weather, we will do our best to post it on the Facebook page.
SUSPENDED
PLAY
If
play is suspended
On the green-
putt out if possible. If not, mark your ball and head for shelter.
In the fairway-
leave your ball or mark its position and head for shelter.
On the tee-
head for shelter.
FEES
Season fees should be paid before golf on the first night or before leaving to Jack Wagner, (make checks
payable to, 777 Golf League.) the golf course will not accept greens fees from
players. You must pay greens fees whether or not you play. Substitutes will not have to pay.
The league must guarantee the number of teams which
will play each week. If a team drops out of the league the league is still
responsible for greens fees for that team. And there will be no refunds.
Carts are included in the greens
fees. Cart fee is used for riding or pull cart.
PRIZES
Weekly prizes will be awarded to the player closest to
the pin on designated holes, front and back.
Trophies for the first half and second half league champions will be
awarded at the end of the season.
SCORING
AND AVERAGES
Each player’s strokes should be recorded at the
completion of each hole. PLEASE FILL OUT YOUR SCORE CARD AT THE NEXT TEE- NOT
ON THE GREEN. You must count all
strokes, and yes whiffs count as a stroke.
The score recorded for each hole is final unless a protest is
declared by your opponents before teeing off on the next hole. Any protest
should be settled by teams in the clubhouse or by the Rules Committee before
the following weeks match. Scorecards are final when signed by a member of each
team and turned in to the league secretary. Please be sure your scorecard has
been filled out correctly and completed before signing and attesting.
Scores
will not count unless they have been signed by one team member and attested to
by an opposing team member.
The average of each player on a team will be used to
determine the team average. Your team average will be compared to the opposing
team’s average. The team with the higher average will be given a handicap equal
to 80% of the difference between the two team averages.
For example:
Team A’s Average = 115
Team B’s Average = 95
115-95= 20
Team
A’s Handicap = 20 x 80% = 16
Team A’s handicap of 16 means that as a team they will
receive two strokes on the seven hardest holes as rated by the golf course and
one stroke on the remaining two holes. If 80% of the difference between the teams averages results in a half stroke, round to the
nearest whole numbers; 50 or greater, round up, 49 or less, drop. No strokes given on par 3’s.
Returning
players and those who subbed last year will use average from last season. New players and subs will establish their
avg. on each night for the first three weeks they play. Ongoing averages will be
calculated using the scores from the most recent five weeks of league play.
Averages can change each week. There is no limit on the avg. going up or down. There
is a double par rule in effect with
a max. avg. of 72. (see rule #3 under
Speeding Up Play).
To calculate a player’s averaged on the first night, ½
of the strokes on the hole for which the player was most over par will be
deducted from the total score. For example, the player scored 1 to 3 strokes
over par on 8 holes, and 4 strokes on 1 hole for a total score of 52. ½ of the
strokes on the hole most over par is 2, the players average is 52-2 = 50. If ½
of the strokes over par is equal to an odd number round up. Example: If the number is 3, ½ equals
1.5, so round up to 2.
A
match is considered complete if 4 or more holes have been played. A league
night is considered played if the last group has finished 4 holes. To complete scores for
less than nine holes, leave the score on the socre blank, I will use completed
holes to calculate the remaining holes. Basically to
do this, I will divide the total score for the holes completed by the total par
for the holes completed. Then multiply this number by the total par of the
uncompleted holes.
Example:
Score
for 7 completed holes……..36
Par
for 7 completed holes………..27
Par
for 2 uncompleted holes………8
36/27 = 1.33 x
8 = 10.76 (round to 11)
Scored used for calculated average is 47
36 (7 holes completed) + 11 (2 uncompleted holes) = 47
AWARDING
POINTS
A total of 18
points will be awarded for each match as follows:
2 points for each hole won.
1 for each hole tied.
0 points for a lost hole.
This awarding of points is the same for any combination of four golfers,
including all subs.
When either team has only one golfer, that golfer
assumes the role of the absent golfer, that is to say, you double the golfer’s
average and their handicap as though the absent golfer is an identical golfer.
The points are then awarded exactly the same as if there were four golfers.
When one TEAM is absent, that team assumes a par
average and that TEAM averages bogey for the round that night. This is based on
the forfeit table found on the webpage. Basically, if the par is 4, and the
forfeit value is 1 (0,1,2 three each) the TEAM shoots a 9. The other team must
have at least one regular player or eligible sub. It forces the team present to
shoot as well as possible. The better they shoot the more points they will get.
The absent team will receive (0)
points for that night.
THIS RULE ALSO APPLIES TO POSITION NIGHTS.
SPEEDING
UP PLAY
In an effort to speed up play and get everyone though
their nine holes while it’s still light, we are implementing the following
rules again this year.
1. Putting
Out- All players should putt out during their turn, do not
mark your ball and wait until you are furthest from the hole to putt again. You
shouldn’t need more than a few seconds to get your line of putt. If you are not
in someone’s line putt out, or ask an opponent if it’s alright to finish out.
2. Lost
Balls- Take three minutes or less to look for a ball in the
woods. Drop another ball and play if from the point where you think it went
into the woods, counting the drop as a stroke.
3. Maximum
Strokes per Hole- there is a double par rule for each hole. After that you must pick you your
ball and record that score for that hole.
4. Teams
Arriving Late- To avoid getting backed up on the first
tee, teams without opponents may be matched up with another team and sent out
to play and match cards with their original opponents in the club house. This
rule could be enforced.
5. Tee
Times- Teams should be on the tee 15 minutes before your tee
time. If you’re going to be late call your opponents.
6. When
coming to the green to putt or chip, place your bag on the side of the green
closest to the next hole.
7. On
the fairway, if the group is out of range take your shot whether or not you’re
the furthest from the hole, and remember to maintain the course.
8. As
they are ‘gimme putts’, and not ‘takemes’, they should be decided by the
foursome. At the beginning of the round the foursome may declare something like
“any ball inside the putter handle is an automatic gimme”
9. To
make the league play as fair as possible, the player is only allowed to move
the ball in the fairway (6) inches but no closed to the hole. This can be done only if the ball is next
to a sprinkler, bare spot, stones, or divot. If the ball is in the rough,
it must be played as it lies. The ball can be dropped in the rough or anywhere if the following conditions
occur. The ball is laying of top,
between, or close enough to roots, rocks, or objects that may cause damage to
your clubs or injure you or someone else. If this occurs ask your opponents
if you can move the ball to a better spot without penalty.
10. The
ball cannot be dropped to avoid a hazard, such
as one side or the other of a tree or bush or any object that would be
considered a natural hazard. It can still be dropped
from a man-made obstruction without penalty such
as a staked tree or bush. It can be moved left, right, or back, but no closer
to the hole.
Please
read over the moving the ball rules above carefully.
RULES:
MATCH
MAKE UP / RESCHEDULE:
Make
up matches will be allowed on position nights only but must be approved by
league officers first. Both teams must
be present. The match must be played
that week prior to the night being made up.
A league officer must be present at the course to check scores and see
that the card is signed and given to Mark Wilde. A picture of the completed
score should be texted to Mark at 734-635-8092
Added April 2015
BALL
LOST IN THE ROUGH:
If
a ball is hit in the rough, limit search time to less than 2 minutes. The
player can drop a replacement ball in the rough, in the general area of where
the shot was viewed to land. This ball
can be hit without penalty. If original
ball is later found it is now out of play.
This rule does not apply to hazards (woods, ponds, creeks, or
out-of-bounds). A player may choice to drop the ball in the fairway, within a
club length, and take a one stroke penalty.
Modified April 2024, (Added April 2016)
SAND
TRAP RULE:
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As the course is improving the sand-traps, you now (April 2024) need permission
from an opponent to invoke this rule. ---
Due to the neglect and therefore the extreme hardness of the sand traps, this
rule has been added to handle such problems.
A ball entering the sand trap that is deemed too hard to play, with your
opponent’s permission that ball may be pulled back in the “line of flight” and
be placed outside the trap but no closer to the hole, without penalty. Anyone wishing to play the shot from in the
trap may do so.
Modified April 2024, (Modified April 2023, (Added 6/4/2018))
SENIOR
TEES:
The
course charges open golfers based on age, any player who is qualified for
senior rates, at any during the season and wanting to play from the senior
tees, may elect to play from the senior tees but must declare this on the first
night and then must play from the senior tees all season. Pine View says 55 is
the age for Seniors. At Pineview the
Senior Tees are Golden/yellowish.
Modified April 2023, (Added April 2019)
DELAY
OF GAME:
If
a ranger, or a league officer, tells you that you are too far behind and that
your foursome must pick up the pace of play, this rule effects all four
players, once on the green all players in the foursome will pick up their
balls, no putting is allowed for the rest of the round. Upon reaching the green, assess your stokes and add 2 stokes (as limited by the strokes
per-hole rule). So as an example, on a
par 4 if someone is on in 3 strokes, you would add 2 stokes making an automatic
5, but if someone is on in 7 adding 2 strokes gets clipped by the double par
rule, so the result is a score of 8.
Added April 2024
SUPER-SENIOR
TEES:
Any
Golfer who is or will be 80 during this golf season will golf from the forward
tees. At Pineview the forward tees are
Red.
Added August 2023, (But I neglected to include for 2024)
Assigning
New Teams for Next Year:
I
will assign new teams based on total point for the year. If there is a tie I
will look at the total points against each other and assign the one with the
most points as the lower number team.
Currently the teams that wins the first half becomes team #1, and the second
half #2. Beginning 2027 we will assign
team #1 to the team with the high points against the other team from the fist
half winners vs the second half winners.
In the event that this is a tie then it will revert to first half is #1,
and second half is #2.
Added May 2026.
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HOLE # 6: NOW SUPERCEDED by “BALL LOST
IN THE ROUGH”
Pine
View added a new course rule for hole #6.
This rule states that any ball hit inside the foundation or outside and found,
can be moved without penalty to a drop area.
If the ball is not found it will be a penalty of one stroke and will be
played from the drop area. If the ball
is on the concrete area between the foundation and the silo it can be moved two
club lengths no closer to the hole without penalty. If the ball is next to silo
it can be moved without penalty two club lengths.
Added August 2010, removed 4/1/2024