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BACKGROUND
PURPOSE The Men’s Senior Interclub Series (MSIS) provides monthly team golf competition for senior men from its member clubs in the Jacksonville area. It has been doing that since 1997. ORGANIZATION The MSIS governing organization consists of a Tournament and Handicap Chairman, a Scheduling and Public Relations Chairman, and one Team Representative from each of our member clubs. THE SEASON Each MSIS season begins in January with monthly competitive team matches that rotate among our Member Clubs’ courses. The season ends in December with the John Brady Cup Match, played at a neutral site. The purpose of using a neutral site for the match is to ensure that no member team has an advantage. The prices at a neutral site are normally higher than those at our member Clubs because we use up-scale area courses that are not normally sympathetic to our cause. RULES 1. ELIGIBILITY 1.1 Participation. Participation in MSIS matches is limited to males aged 55 and over from our Member Clubs. If otherwise qualified, new players may play in a match during the month they attain age 55 2. MEMBER CLUBS 2.1 New Member Clubs. Team Representatives will be notified and vote on the prospective addition of a new Member Club. A majority of the Team Representatives must approve the addition. 2.2 Removal of Member Clubs. Any Club’s membership may be revoked for lack of participation or conduct detrimental to the organization. A majority of the Team Representatives must approve of the revocation. 3. TEAM COMPOSITION 3.1 Teams. Teams consist of eight players, all of whom must be from the same member Club. 3.2 Partial Teams. A team that plays with seven, six, or even fewer players is considered in competition for all prizes and therefore must pay the full fees required of all players. 3.3 Vacant Slots. Players from other clubs may fill any vacant slots but their scores will neither count in the match nor toward handicap calculations and prizes. 4. PLAY 4.1 USGA Rules of Golf. Play is governed by the USGA Rules of Golf except as modified by local rules of the host Club and the MSIS (see Paragraph 5 below). 4.2 Format. The format for all matches is the net Stableford scoring system in accordance with USGA Rule 32-1b. 4.3 Starting Time. MSIS matches use a shotgun start, normally at 9 a.m. Some Member Clubs may require a different starting time. The host Pro and the MSIS Tournament Director will brief players 15 minutes before the starting time to ensure that players will arrive at their designated teeing areas at the starting time. 4.4 Tees. All players will play from the same designated tee markers. The Tournament Chairman will select established tees that are 6,000 yards or more, and request the host Club Pro to place the tee markers at the rated distances for those tees for handicapping purposes. 4.5 Pace of Play. Each pairing is requested to maintain a steady pace of play and to keep up with the group in front of them. We play Ready Golf. 4.6 Inclement Conditions. Lightning will stop play. Rain will not stop play unless the match is called by the Pro Shop. 5. MSIS LOCAL RULES 5.1 Distance-Measuring Devices. USGA-approved range finders are permitted during play. 5.2. Lost Balls. We limit searches for lost balls to three minutes. 5.3 Continuous Putting. We encourage, but do not require, a player who starts putting to continue to putt until he holes out, unless doing so would cause him to step on someone else's line. 5.4 Provisional Ball, Water Hazard. If there is doubt whether a ball is in or is lost in a water hazard (including a lateral water hazard), the player may play another ball provisionally under any of the applicable options in Rules of Golf: Rule 26-1. a. If the original ball is found outside the water hazard, the player must continue play with it. b. If the original ball is found in the water hazard, the player may either play the original ball as it lies or continue with the provisional ball. c. If the original ball is not found or identified within the three-minute search period, the player must continue with the provisional ball. 6. HANDICAPS 6.1 MSIS Handicap System. To ensure a level playing field for our matches we use our own handicap system that produces handicap indexes based solely on a player’s Equitable Stroke Controlled (ESC) gross scores posted in our matches. 6.2 MSIS Handicap Index. Until they have played in three MSIS matches, players must use their USGA handicap index, and are thereby limited to a maximum of 38 Stableford points. Once players have competed in three MSIS matches they will be assigned a handicap index based on their scores in MSIS matches. 6.3 Tournament Score. For purposes of reporting their MSIS round to their home club handicapping system, players should report their round as a Tournament Score. 7. SCORING 7.1 Scorecards. We require complete and legible scorecards signed by both the marker and the player. Scorecards must include the first and last name of the player, his handicap, and his gross score on each hole. No other information is required. The player’s total gross ESC score and Stableford points will be calculated by the scoring committee and submitted to the host Pro for posting. 7.2 Picking Up. If a player should pick up on a hole, the marker must record a “0”. The committee will calculate the player’s correct ESC score for that hole. 7.3 Incomplete Scorecards. The committee will reject incomplete scorecards, including those that have not been signed by the marker and the player. If a corrected scorecard is not submitted to the committee in a timely manner the player will be considered missing. 7.4 Missing Player. A missing player will be awarded the same number of Stableford points as the lowest score in the field that day. That procedure also applies to each player of a member team that has no players available to play. 7.5 Leaving the Course. If the pro shop has not suspended the match and a player should leave the course, his marker will submit his score up to the time he left. The player will receive the greater of his actual points scored or the lowest score in the field for that day.
8. TEAM COMPETITION AND PRIZES 8.1 Monthly Matches. At each monthly match, including the John Brady Cup Match, the team with the most total net Stableford points accumulated by the best seven of its eight players is declared the winner. In honor of its prestige, the points accumulated at the annual John Brady Cup Match are doubled. 8.2 Monthly Match Tie-breaker. In the event of ties among the winning teams, the six highest point totals for each team will be used to break the tie. If that fails to break the tie, then the five highest point totals are used, and so on, continuing until the tie is broken. 8.3 Season’s Champion Team. The team that compiles the largest number of total Stableford points for the season will be declared that season’s champion team and awarded the John Brady Cup. The champion team retains the cup for one year. 8.4 John Brady Cup Tie-breaker. If two or more teams tie for the John Brady Cup, then the cup is awarded to the team that was ahead in the season’s standings immediately prior to the John Brady Cup match. 8.5 Prizes. We award merchandise certificates to the top four teams for all monthly matches with 13 to15 teams competing. For matches that have less than 13 teams competing we award prizes to the top three teams. The amounts of the merchandise prize certificates to be awarded are listed in the appendix.
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