Golf Course Care and Guidelines

 

Golf Course Care and Guidelines

These guidelines are simple and help protect the club’s greatest asset, the Golf Course. Playability and health of the Course, along with player satisfaction, are top priorities of the Greens and Grounds Department. We kindly ask that players take part in repairing their own damage on the Golf Course as per the guidelines below. Please also brief your guests of these guidelines prior to your round.

  • Please make an effort to find and then fix your ballmarks properly by pushing the turf in toward the middle of the mark then tapping it down with your putter.
  • Replace divots when possible. If the divot is unrecoverable, please fill the void with sand.
  • After play in bunkers, please rake out footprints smoothly and place the rake outside of the bunker.
  • Keep your cart on the path as much as possible. When feasible, enter the fairway at a 90-degree angle heading to your ball position.
  • Cart traffic should be scattered through fresh turf areas and rarely concentrated into a single path. This includes pinch points on fairways, around bunkers as well as entry and exit points from the cart path.
  • Carts are allowed to travel in the rough and on the fairways, scattering their traffic paths. Steep mounds and tall grassed naturalized areas must be avoided. The geofence is active generally in a 15 yard radius around the edge of the greens.
  • Foot traffic around green entry and exits should also be spread out as much as possible.
  • Please refrain from taking your push cart on the green. Where possible, avoid taking push cart between the green and a greenside bunker.
  • Broken tees, cigarette butts, tobacco pouches, lemons, limes and the like are all considered litter on the Golf Course and should be disposed of appropriately.

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