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My name is Nick Doran, and I am the former president of the UCSD Casual Golf Club.

I am going to post rules decisions as I encounter them on the golf course. I am pretty sure that I will be able to come up with at least one rule nugget for each round that I play.

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

5/28/2018 - Sea 'n Air

Due to the collapse of the driving range fence onto the first fairway, hole #1 at Sea 'n Air has been shortened from a 500 yard par 5 (from the blue tees) to a 240 yard par 4.  So how do you post a score?

Section 5-2g of the USGA handicap manual covers this:

http://www.usga.org/handicapping/handicap-manual.html#!rule-14379


According to the table, 260 yards equates to -1.4 on the course rating, and -3 for the slope.  For men, from the blue tees, this is:

Rating = 70.6 - 1.4 = 69.2
Slope = 126 - 3 = 123

So if the course is playing 260 yards shorter than the rating, then you post manually, using these revised numbers.

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