Team In 2012 Rules of CompetitionThe RIWGA Board and Team-In Co-chairs have planned some new changes to the 2012 Team-In Tournament. The changes are based on the Team Captains’ Survey conducted after the competition last year. Below are the rules and formats for this year’s competition. We hope you enjoy the events.
Club TeamsEach club may submit one or more teams. Each team may consist of a minimum of 4, and a maximum of 7 players. Once the divisions have been established, a team may not substitute or add players. Clubs must field their first team with players having the lowest handicap index of all of the members interested in playing. The second team will then have the next lowest handicap indexes and so forth. Four team members will represent the team each of the first 4 days of competition. The team may select any four of the seven members to play on any particular day. It is the responsibility of the team captain to submit the names of who will be playing for their team on each day of competition according to these deadlines:
- July 23, 2012 – Team Applications
- July 31, 2012 – Roster for the qualifying days
- August 23, 2012 – Roster for the finals (all matches).
Team In 2012 Rules of CompetitionThe RIWGA Board and Team-In Co-chairs have planned some new changes to the 2012 Team-In Tournament. The changes are based on the Team Captains’ Survey conducted after the competition last year. Below are the rules and formats for this year’s competition. We hope you enjoy the events.
Club TeamsEach club may submit one or more teams. Each team may consist of a minimum of 4, and a maximum of 7 players. Once the divisions have been established, a team may not substitute or add players. Clubs must field their first team with players having the lowest handicap index of all of the members interested in playing. The second team will then have the next lowest handicap indexes and so forth. Four team members will represent the team each of the first 4 days of competition. The team may select any four of the seven members to play on any particular day. It is the responsibility of the team captain to submit the names of who will be playing for their team on each day of competition according to these deadlines:
Teams will be placed in divisions based on the combined handicap indexes of all players as they stand two weeks prior the first day of competition (July 15, 2012 GHIN report). Handicap indexes will be frozen for all players based on the GHIN report as of August 1, 2012. Teams may not have more than a 10 point spread among all handicap indexes. If there is a larger spread, the player with the higher index will be adjusted down to 10 strokes higher than the lowest index on that team. This index will serve as the “frozen” index for that player for the entire competition.
The frozen handicap index will be used to determine the course handicap for each day of competition. Team captains will be sent a sheet of all players “frozen H.I.” to be used for all competitions, prior to the start of play.
Divisions or CupsRIWGA has five Cups representing the five divisions for In-State Team competition. Each Cup will have a minimum of four teams and a maximum of five teams.
The number of teams in each division will be established by the Team-In Co-Chairs based on the number of teams requesting to play.
All member clubs will have an opportunity to field at least one team. Additional teams beyond one per club will be accommodated as space is available up to a maximum of five teams in each division, or a total of 25 teams. (The Team In co-chairs reserve the right to make adjustments to the number of teams in division based on sign-up.) Additional teams beyond one per club will be accommodated on a first come, first serve basis, so earlier sign-up will provide an advantage for getting a second or third team into the competition.
A third team for any club will be accommodated as space is available in the event there are no additional clubs requesting a second team.
Format of PlayAll competition will be played on four specific days, designated on the calendar at the start of the season. The goal is that we not have a greater than four week span between all dates of play and all members will know the dates of play for all matches at the start of the 2012 season. All teams will play as twosomes on each of the qualifying days, with a twosome from another club in the same division.
The format for the first two days will be as follows:
- Day one – Twosomes will play a step-away scramble for 9 holes. Two-person teams mayconsist of any team members playing that day. Team captains are responsible to designate which team members will be playing together each day when submitting the qualifying day roster. The two-person team handicap will be calculated based on the average of the individual course handicaps for those two players. Each two-person team will submit their gross score with the team handicap subtracted to provide a net score. The second 9 holes will be played as a two person team. Format will be best net ball for the team, based on 100% individual course handicaps for each player.
- Day two – Twosomes will play as a team for 9 holes of alternate shot format. The Team handicap will be calculated by averaging the 2 individual course handicaps. The second nine holes will be stroke play for all team members, using 100% individual course handicap. The team total will be the sum of the net scores for each of the 2 teams.
The scores from each day for each team will be added and this combined score will be used to seed the divisions for the final two days. Combined scores will equal the sum of all four of the qualifying day formats for each team, thus calculating a total team qualifying score. For each individual day of the first two qualifying days the same four players must complete all play. If a player must stop playing before the completion of the 18 holes the team will need to finish playing with fewer players that day.
A different group of four among the seven original team members may play each of the two qualifying days. The five teams in each division will all play in the finals on the same two courses on the same two days.
Captains are responsible for providing the Team In co-chairs with all rosters for each day of competition by the deadlines stated above. The format for the finals will be nine hole matches against each of the other teams in the same division. Play will be in shotgun for each of the four matches.
Each team will decide who will play each of the four matches. Among those playing in each match, the top two players on each team will play the top two players on the opposing team. The format for the finals will be partner’s better (net) ball, match play competition. A team may choose any 4 players of the original 7 to compete in each of the 9 hole matches, or may choose to play the same 4 members for all matches. Teams may substitute players only between matches and the team roster for all matches must be submitted by the deadline stated above. Exceptions will be made only in cases of player injury or illness and such a substitution will be made only between matches.
Costs:Scoring during the finals will be based on points accumulated. Each hole won will represent one point and each hole halved will represent 1⁄2 a point. There will be no reduction in points for holes lost. There will be a reception and announcement of winners following play on the last day of competition. We hope that you will encourage all of your team members to join us for the reception in addition to those playing that day.
The Division Cups will be awarded to the teams with the highest total points in each division at the annual meeting. Runners up will also be acknowledged.
The team will be expected to pay $60 for 4 players at the beginning of each day of competition. During the finals if teams choose to play different players for each 9 holes RIWGA asks that you work out the payment among yourselves. In other words, the player registering for the first match will be asked to pay $60. That player, if they choose to, may then collect half the fee from the teammate playing the second match. Captains will be expected to inform their players to be prepared to pay this fee when they register each morning. Registration can be confusing and we appreciate your cooperation with this to help us make everything run smoothly.
We will be celebrating the winning teams at a reception following play on the final day. All team members are encouraged to join us for this reception. The cost per player for the reception is $30 and can be paid at the door by any players beyond the 4 who registered at the beginning of the day. In order to plan for the number of guests we ask that all captains provide us with the number of additional team members attending the reception when providing their team roster. We appreciate your cooperation in meeting all deadlines so that we may plan the best experience possible for all players.
This year we are also ask that captains have access to e-mail so that we may communicate with you in a timely manner. Our deadlines are tight and we want to provide you with all of the information you need in the most efficient way possible. If a captain does not have access to e-mail you may provide the name of someone willing to receive communications and relay them back to the team. Thank you for cooperating with this requirement.
Please feel free to contact us: Team-In Co-chairs,
Jessica Brier Paula Ruggiero
Jessicabrier.brier@gmail.com flapar@live.com