Home Club Qualifier Rules

Home Club Qualifier – Rules of Play
See your Golf Pro for your Club’s Home Club Qualifier Start and End Date

Individual NET Stableford Competition

  1. The ability to compete in The Amateur Golf World Cup by LeClub International (“Amateur World Cup”) is being made available only to Palmer Advantage, Premier or Connect (at CBIGG private clubs) Members (“Members”).
  2. If you are not a Palmer Advantage Member, you can enroll in Palmer Advantage or Premier (where available) before entering the Amateur World Cup by completing the Upgrade Form in the Pro Shop.
  • Each Member must inform the Pro Shop that they want to participate in their Home Club Qualifier before their round that day in an attempt to win their Home Club Qualifier and to possibly qualify to be one of the two golfers in the two-person team that will travel and play on behalf of the United States in the Amateur World Club Finals in the 2nd quarter of 2017.
  • Members can attempt to qualify as many times as they want during any regular normal tee time play day during their Home Club’s 90- Day Qualifier. Check with your Pro Shop for your club’s Home Club Qualifier Start and End Date.  No attempts outside those dates will be considered.
  • Members must play with another golfer (competing or non-competing golfer) when they try and qualify so that the accurate score can be attested for with a signature by the other golfer.
  • Individuals will attempt to qualify in one of two divisions, Handicaps of Under 15, and a Handicaps of 15 and Over. Handicaps will be determined as of the last full month’s handicap posting the moth preceding each club’s Home Club Qualifier Start Date, according to the USGA handicapping system and verified by the Head Golf Professional at your home club. This Handicap will be the players’ only handicap used for purposes of the Home Club Qualifiers. A Member may only compete in one of the above divisions.
  • In order to compete in the Home Club Qualifier, and be eligible for, and to participate in, the Amateur World Cup Final, the Member must remain a Palmer Advantage, Premier, Premier Plus or Connect member in good standing.
  • Members will play their own ball throughout the course of play, and record only their gross score on each hole on their scorecard. Members must turn in their signed scorecard (player and witness) to the Pro Shop immediately following their round.
  • The  golf professional at the Member’s home club will be responsible for tallying each golfer’s NET Stableford points score on each hole, and recording it upon a master score sheet that will be completed for each participating Member
  • Each Member is responsible for marking only the gross number of strokes at each hole where the competitor’s net score earns one or more points.
  • No maximum number of strokes per hole applies. Members may record a score of “x” on any given hole, but they may not record a maximum of double or triple bogey on a hole as is allowed in the USGA handicapping system.
  • Members should play from the same tee they would normal play from for purposes of calculating their handicap and they must indicate which tee they played from on their scorecard.
  • The Stableford points tally will be determined on the following scale for each hole based upon each individual’s NET score:
NET Score on each hole:

Points
no score returned / indicated

0
Two over par

1
One over par

2
Par

3
One under Par

4
Two under Par

5
Three under Par

6
Four under Par

7
  • The winner for each of the home Club’s two (2) handicap divisions will be the Member in each division with the highest number of points accumulated during any one single round during the Home Club Qualifier.
  • A Member may only win one division of their Home Club Qualifier and thus qualify for the International World Cup Final in one and only one division based on their most recent qualifying round played and the division they played in during the Home Club Qualifier.
  • In the event of a tie in either division of the Home Club Qualifier, the Head Golf Professional at the Home Club will conduct a “scorecard playoff” using the following protocol:

The top 6 most difficult rated holes at the Home Club will be reviewed. The Member with the highest points total for those 6 holes will be named the winner. If need be, the process will continue on with the next most difficult rated hole and so on until all ties have been broken and one Home Club winner for each  division is named.

A 4 Night Resort Certificate, double occupancy will be awarded to the winner of each of the two (2) handicap divisions in every participating Home Club.

  • Home Club winners will be announced by January 9, 2017

 

International World Cup Finals

  • On January 6, the winning Members in each division, from each Home Club Qualifier, and their individual score cards will be sent to Palmer Advantage, LLC.
  • One individual from each of the two handicap divisions will be selected to represent the United States in the Amateur World Cup finals in Spain. The winner in each division shall be the Member with the highest NET stableford points earned nationwide from their qualifying round played at their Home Club, as submitted to Palmer Advantage, LLC.
  • In the event of a tie involving one or more players, in either division, the tiebreaker shall be a “scorecard playoff”, as follows:

The top 6 most difficult rated holes at each Home Club of the Members involved in the scorecard playoff will be reviewed. The highest points total for those 6 holes will be named the winner. If need be, the process will continue on with the next most difficult rated hole and so on until all ties have been broken and one nationwide winner for each  division is named.

  • The winners of each division may, but do not necessarily have to, come from the same Home Club. The winners will be determined no later than January 13, 2017.
    • The two national winners (one from each division) will be the final two-person team that will compete against teams representing multiple other countries and those countries’ respective Local Qualifier winners in a 5 night stay, including three (3) days of golf competition at the International World Cup Finals at Iberostar Novo Sancti Petri Golf Resort in Cadiz, Spain in the 2nd quarter of 2017. The International Amateur World Cup Finals are sponsored and administered by LeClub International. Palmer Advantage, LLC is administering only the Home Club Qualifier as set forth above.
    • For more details regarding the trip to, and competition in, Spain, see the official International rules of play as determined by LeClub International at www.theamateurgolfworldcup.com.

 

Additional Rules of Play

Home Club Qualifier entrants agree to these Official Rules and to all decisions of Palmer Advantage, LLC, which are final and legally binding in all respects, and further agree that the prizes stated herein (the “Prizes”) are awarded upon the condition that Palmer Advantage, LLC and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, officers, directors, partners, principals, partnerships, employees or agents shall have no liability whatsoever and shall be held harmless for any injuries, losses, or damages of any kind to persons or property, including death, sustained, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, in connection with or resulting from acceptance, possession or use/misuse of Resort Certificate, the participation in the Home Club Qualifier, or participation in the International World Cup finals in Spain.

By accepting the Prizes, winners agree that Palmer Advantage, LLC may use each winner’s name, likeness or photograph, without limitation, for promotional purposes without further consideration or payment, where permitted by law. The Prizes are not transferable. No cash or other substitutions allowed. Palmer Advantage, LLC reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value if any of the Prizes become unavailable.

Palmer Advantage, LLC’s failure to enforce any term of the Home Club Qualifier – Rules of Play shall not constitute a waiver of that provision. Should any provision of these Rules of Play be deemed unenforceable or invalid, the other provisions of these Rules of Play shall remain in full force and effect. In the event that the Home Club Qualifier is challenged by any legal or regulatory authority (including but not limited to any federal or state governmental authority), Palmer Advantage, LLC reserves the right to discontinue or modify the tournament, as applicable, or to disqualify any entrants residing in any affected geographic areas, as applicable.

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