Play Safe Golf Guidelines

Summary

• Keep 2 meters apart
• 4 balls available
• Avoid the accumulation of several golfers on tee boxes 
• Wash or sanitise your hands regularly 
• Only use your own golf equipment & golf balls  
• Buggies are limited to one golfer unless from the same household
• Do not shake hands after your round
• Preferred lies in bunkers, you may place your ball in the bunker within 6 inches of the original spot no nearer the hole s afety whilst on the course

Teeing Areas 

• Golfers to keep two metres apart at teeing areas due to the normal close proximity of golfers to one another when tee shots are being played 
• Avoid the accumulation of separate tee time groups on the same tee box

General 

• Golfers to stay more than two metres apart when walking to the ball, searching for a ball and playing shots
• Remind golfers not to touch stray balls
• Scorecards are available from the pro shop

Bunkers

• Please as courtesy to other people on the course, rake over the bunker if you have the misfortune to go into one. Now we can no longer place the ball in the bunkers it is so important to use the rake.

Greens

• Golfers to keep two metres apart on the putting greens.

After the Round 

• Social distancing is as important after a round as it is during the round, so when the round is over all golfers must leave the course immediately although the club house area is open.

Rules of Golf-Related Matters

Bunkers 

• Preferred lies in bunkers is in use. A player may place a ball in the bunker within 6 inches of the original spot and not nearer to the hole than that spot.

Flagstick and Hole

• Flagsticks will be in place with foam inserts in the hole. 

Playing golf is a great way to exercise and to have some limited social interaction at a time of restriction. However, to keep golf courses open golfers must exhibit best social practice before arriving at the golf club to play, at the golf club and on the golf course.

For Your Health and Wellbeing

The following guidelines have been issued by the World Health Authority, following these will substantially reduce the likelihood that you will contract the virus becoming a carrier.

• Stay at home and self-isolate even if you only have minor symptoms such as; such as cough; headache; mild fever; if you need to leave the house, wear a face mask and avoid contact with others.
• If you have a cough; fever or breathing difficulties, and feel you cannot cope at home, use the NHS 111 helpline.
• Regularly and thoroughly wash your hands with soap and water or alcohol-based hand rub to kill any viruses that may be on your hands.
• Maintain a distance of at least 2 metres from other persons (social distancing) in case they, or you cough or sneeze spreading the virus through droplets.
• Avoid crowding or crowded places where social distancing cannot be maintained.
• Avoid touching your eyes, mouth, and nose; these are transfer points for the virus from your hands into the body.
• Cover your mouth and nose if you sneeze, disposing of the tissue immediately, then clean your hands as above.

At the golf club and on the golf course

The above guidelines apply at all times when at the golf club and on the golf course, remember if you want to keep playing strict adherence is essential, additionally and until further notice how we play the game and prepare golf courses must change, this means as a player you must;

• If you can, carry with you an alcohol-based hand sanitiser.
• If you have a tee time, please arrive in the advised time, if you have to wait anywhere, ensure good social distancing at all times.

Follow any instructions and safety signs that are in place; they are there to ensure the best possible practice.

• On the putting green, remove your balls without contacting the hole cup.
• Do not shake hands or make physical contact before, during or after your round.
• Do not crowd around tees, if as you approach a tee; it is occupied, stay well back maintaining a suitable distance from the tee while keeping a distance of 2 metres from your paying partner.
• On the tee, maintain good social distancing from your playing partners at all times.
• Do not share; pencils; tees; scope finders; umbrellas; phones or any other golf paraphernalia with other players.
• Avoid contact with the hole cup; we will clean the hole cups on a regular basis and foam inserts have been placed in the hole to prevent the ball from going below the surface.
• Do not pick up another players golf club or, contact their golf bag or golf trolley.
• Do not pick up any golf ball other than your own, even if you find what you are certain is a lost ball.
• Accept the bunkers as you find them. Use rakes provided.
• Please dispose of any litter in the appropriate bins.

Any player observed not following the above code of conduct will be asked to leave the golf course immediately by staff.

Remember to practice good golf etiquette at all times, a reckless shot could place an unnecessary demand on already stretched emergency services.

Note if you are showing any of the symptoms of Covid19 such as cough; headache; mild fever; anosmia (loss of taste and smell) for your safety and for the safety of your friends and their families stay at home, we will see you soon.