Savannah Senior Strikers' FAQ/Local Golf Rules

Joining the Savannah Senior Strikers Golf organization requires potential members to complete three rounds of golf to establish their prog and pay annual dues. During this trial period, they can participate in skins and closest to the pin challenges, but not the prog challenge. Once their prog is confirmed, individuals have the option to become a full member by paying annual dues before their fourth round of golf. Non-members are welcome to play if invited but cannot take part in any challenges: prog, closest to the pin, or skins.

Exceptions need direct approval from the president.

Effective immediately, the following rules apply to our double bogey blitz:

- Score adjustments will no longer be made based on minimum (20) or maximum (50) ranges. Your score is your score!

Prog Adjustment Criteria After the Blitz:

1. If your score is -1, +1, or even, your Prog remains unchanged.

2. If your score is -2 or lower, it decreases by one point.

3. If your score is +2 or higher, your prog will increase one for every 2 over.

Example:

Initial Prog: 40

Score: 45

Plus/minus: +5

Adjusted Prog: 42

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT:

To play golf with the Savannah Senior Strikers, you need to book your tee time as early as possible.

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Booking in advance helps us know what tee time we will need. Certain courses require us to send a list of who will be playing on a given day. If we get fully booked, and you just show up, there is a chance you will be denied to play.

Bottom, please book as soon as you know you will be playing that day.

If you hit you ball and you think it may have gone out of bounds or it will be lost you have three options:

1. You can verbally declare and play a provision ball. If you find your original ball YOU MUST THEN PLAY IT. YOU CANNOT DECLARE THE PROVISIONAL BALL IN PLAY UNLESS YOU CANNOT FIND THE ORIGINAL.
2. If you don't play a provisional and don't find the original or find it out of bounds, then you get a drop within two club lengths of the estimated place it went out, no closer to the hole, for a one stroke penalty.
3. You can drop it, in the fairway, within two club lengths of the fairway edge for a two stroke penalty.

Striker Rule

1. You can lift, clear and place your ball within one club length, no closer to the hole while IN THE FAIRWAY ONLY!!! This rule is always in effect except during course conditions: Cart path only. During these times, lift, clean and place is all over the course, except in a hazard.

Bunker Rule during Cart Path only. If standing water in bunker, move to a dry area to improve your lie. You may also rake at this point. If the bunker is completely filled with water and there is no dry spot, you can move your ball out of bunker, but no closer to the hole, keeping the flag on the same line with the original spot of the ball.  

e) Hazards

Hazard area play. No change, USGA Rule 17

The blitz administrator is the only one who can end a round.. Simply quitting without informing the administrator does not constitute the start of the Inclement Weather Rules. If the round is not completed due to inclement weather (18 holes), scores will not be recorded on the official prog score sheet. In most cases we will have a payout!

Both proximity markers should be placed on the first two par three holes (front side) to ensure fairness for all participants. This allows everyone to have an equal opportunity to complete the Close to the Pin challenge. 

The Skin game concludes when the last group completes the last hole played. If the field of play (blitz) is called off due to inclement weather, the Skins will be determined by the holes completed up to that point. 

Example: If holes 1-12 are completed by the first and last groups, the Skins will be determined by those holes.

The first and last group, either in part or whole, must complete holes 1 through 9 (front side).

If holes 1 through 9 are not completed by all groups, the prog bets are called off (Canceled). The prog pot money will be returned to each participant.

If all groups complete 9 holes and the course of play is called off, the nine-hole score will be tallied and multiplied by two, pressing the individual's current progs (+/-). Offical progs WILL NOT BE CHANGED. 

Starting in 2025, all par threes will be in play for closet to the pin. If the course has 5 par 3's, four will be determined prior to the start of the round.