The Bert's & Lert's Golf Association Mission & Rules

Mission

The purpose of The Bert's and Lert's Golf Association starts and ends with having fun with our friends through the game of golf. We simply exist to add structured competition to aid in this endeavor. All rules are made with this goal in mind. 

Rules

Section 1 - Rules

1. New competitions/games/ideas/rules and their adoption shall be voted on by the Members. 

2. There will exist a Board of Directors to act as tie-breakers for Association votes when needed. 

A. The Board of Directors

• David Pierce

• Alex Toth

• Robert Pavich

• Alex Martin

• Jillian Oberley

1. Each Member may step down at any time and they may add to their ranks as they see fit.

B. The Association Members have voted to pay dues and fines.

1. Dues shall be paid to either Co-Treasurer (Jillian Oberley or Earl Rogers) by the first Sunday of each month in the amount of $5.

a. An additional $5 drinking/smoking surcharge will be added to each submitted scorecard to each applicable Member. This is a flat rate and covers both smoking and drinking for a given round.

2. All dues paid will be put back into The League by way of trophy (trophies), giveaways, or otherwise increasing the enjoyability of The League.

3. Dues shall be voted on at the beginning of each season.

4. Fines shall be divided into two (2) categories.

a. Indisputable Fines shall be $5 and include the following:

• Late/No-Show for a tee time.

• Throwing/Breaking a club in anger/frustration.

• Hitting a person or animal with a club, ball, or cart.

b. Other Fines may be called out during rounds at the discretion of present Members. These fines may be of varying amounts but shall not exceed $5. All of these  fines may be challenged/not accepted by the offending party- you will know if you deserve it or not.

c. There will be a $5 surcharge per score card submitted for drinking alcohol or smoking (where legal and for our of age Members) during that round.

3. New Members will enter B&L at the bottom of the ranking and must complete four (4) solo rounds to establish their League Membership, handicap, and personal best.

Section 2 - Golf

1. Season play encompasses any score throughout the season in challenge/ game/ match/ scramble/ stroke play so long as there are at least two (2) Association members present and signed on a scorecard.

A. Scorecards to be submitted to The Association Scribe- Current Association Scribe is Madam Jillian Oberley.

1. One scorecard may be submitted per week per Member.

a. If no scorecard is submitted then no score will be counted.

b. Each Member may bank one (1) scorecard for the following week.

2. Scorecards must be signed  and submitted via a photo of the scorecard posted to the scorecard submission Discord channel.

3. Each Member must submit one (1) Solo Play scorecard every calendar month.

a. If a Member is only able to submit one (1) scorecard in a given month then that scorecard MUST be Solo Play.

b. If a Member is unable to play any rounds in a given month then they shall incur a five (5) ranking points penalty; for each additional consecutive month that said Member does not submit a score, five (5) additional ranking points will be subtracted with no limit. When a score is submitted the penalty will reset.

B. Each player shall be allowed one (1) mulligan per round.

1.  If a Member does not use their allowed mulligan in solo play, they shall be awarded two (2) bonus points.

2. If playing a scramble, all Members of the team must keep their mulligan to gain one (1) bonus point. If one (1) Member of the team uses their mulligan these bonus points are forfeit for the entire team.

C. Scoring System.

D. Major Play.

1. Majors and their structure will be announced in advance to allow Members to make arrangements if necessary.

E. Standard Challenges.

1. Individual Members- or teams of two (2) to four (4) Members- may challenge other Members to a match- rules/scores will be set by the players involved and played according to team size and the winning team will receive an additional two (2) points.

2. Any Member who is challenged has the option to accept or decline the challenge.

3. IF the challenge is accepted then that scorecard MUST be entered for each Member participating in the challenge.

F. Fun Challenges.

1. As fun challenges will vary and not be designed with ranking points in mind, should a Member decide to submit a scorecard from a fun challenge they will only be eligible to gain three (3) points for participating in the challenge, ten (10) points for a hole-in-one, and two (2) points for winning the challenge.

G. Personal Best.

1. Initial personal best for each Member will be established using the best score from their first four (4) rounds of Solo Play.

2. Members may play their four (4) Solo Play rounds as fast as they like and may submit multiple Solo Play scorecards in a week while establishing their initial Personal Best only.

H. Handicaps.

1. Madam Scribe shall keep track of a handicap of your League scores.

a. Handicaps will be established beginning with an average of a Member’s first four (4) solo rounds. Once a Member has played nine (9) or more solo rounds their handicap shall be taken using the average of their best eight (8) scores from their past twenty (20) rounds.

2. Each Member shall receive five (5) bonus points each time they break a new “handicap milestone”. There will be no punishment for falling below a milestone.

a. A “handicap milestone” is every number divisible by 5 (70, 65, 60, 55, etc. all the way down to 5).

b. Example: if there are two (2) players, one (1) moving from a 63 handicap to a 59 and one (1) from a 48 handicap to a 44 – both players would be awarded five (5) points for breaking the 60 and 45 milestones, respectively. 

3. Any League Member with an established handicap of 30 or over will not be eligible for negative points from double bogies, etc. Players MUST have an established handicap to qualify for this exemption.

I.  In the Inaugural Season (following seasons format TBD based on how this one works) initial rankings will be set by April 1 and updated every Sunday hereafter; The Season will end on October 31.