Keney Park Player's Club TR&R

Adopted March 1, 2026

General Policies

Purpose: The Keney Park Player’s Club (the “Club”) is established to promote the game of golf and golf-related activities while encouraging fellowship, sportsmanship and social connection among its members. The Club is not organized for profit.

Membership: Membership is available to all persons eighteen (18) years of age or older.

Members in good standing have paid the applicable annual membership dues for the golfing season. Member benefits include:

• Access to all weekly tournaments and major tournaments
• USGA handicap

Memberships are for a single golfing season only.

Tee Times: Members looking to make a tee time can do so 7 days in advance but must play with at least one other member in the KPPC.

Dress Code: Keney Park Player’s Club members are expected to comply with Keney Park Golf Course requirements of proper golf attire.

Player Conduct: Keney Park Player’s Club members shall always conduct themselves in a responsible manner. Any excessive lack of golfing etiquette or disrespect to a fellow player, golf course staff member, or any other individual may be grounds for disqualification, or penalty strokes added to any tournament and expulsion from the Player’s Club. In addition, members are responsible to report infractions of the above or the Rules of Golf by any member that may be cause for disqualification from a tournament or the Player’s Club.

Tournament Policies

Keney Park Player’s Club members shall follow all USGA, local, and tournament rules including scoring, submitting scores, and following the handicap system.

Ruling Questions: If there is a question regarding a golf ruling, please call the golf shop.  In a situation where the rules are unknown and the ball is not lost or in penalty area, play two balls (stroke-play only). A decision will be made by the Club Professional.

Weekend Sign-up: Sign-ups will take place online, through the Golf Genius portal.  Players have 7 days in advance to sign-up.  Tee times close on the Tuesday prior to the event at 10:00 AM. Once round/event registration has closed, the player has 24 hours to inform the golf shop if they cannot play.

Scorecards: Golf Genius Mobile Scoring must be checked for accuracy before finalizing. Having a paper scorecard as backup is recommended in all situations. Scorecards need to be marked as Completed, and the scorekeeper must ensure that the groups scores have been processed as “Final” in Golf Genius. Checking the Leaderboard will assist in this process.

All Player's must sign in with the golf shop on the day of the tournament.  Failure to do so is automatic disqualification.  All Player's Club fee and City of Hartford fees must be paid prior to scheduled round of golf, unless specific arrangements are made with the golf shop.  It is the player's responsibility pay any unpaid fee prior to leaving the property.  Failure to do so is automatic disqualification.

Flights: Flights are determined by the total number of participants, handicap index and the format of the given tournament.

Tees: Specific to all Player’s Club Tournaments, the default tees for Men are the Blue Tees, and the default tees for Women are the Green Tees. Players may play from a more forward set of tees, provided that the following criteria (below) is satisfied. Handicaps will be calculated for the tees played by each player according to the USGA WHS.

White Tee Criteria – must qualify with a., b., and c., or d., or e.

1. At least 60 years old
2. Course Handicap calculated on the White Tees is 10 or more
3. Age plus White Course Handicap equals at least 75

or

1. At least 75 years old, regardless of handicap

or

1. Course Handicap calculated on the White Tees is 20 or more

Green Tee Criteria

1. At least 80 years old

A player must play the same set of tees for all rounds in a given Player’s Club Tournament. All Gross Tournaments will take place from the same set of tees. Players on a team must play from the Blue Tees for their individual score to count towards the team’s Gross Score. See specific rules for each tournament.

Pace of Play: It is the responsibility of every golfer to keep up with the group in front of them, not just ahead of the game behind them. The recommended pace of play for a foursome is 4 hours and 15 minutes (4:15). Here are some tips from the USGA to improve pace of play.

• Arrive on time and ready for your tee time. “On time” is 15 minutes early.
• Minimize your time on the tee. On the tee box, it is acceptable for players to “hit when ready.” Also, to save time you must play a provisional ball (Rule 18.2) if you think your original ball might be lost or out of bounds
• Play ready golf and plan your shot before you get to your ball
• Keep your pre­shot routine short
• Don’t wait in the cart for your partner. Drop him off, go to your ball and get ready for your shot. If you want to leave the cart with your partner, take a couple of clubs and start walking to your ball. Nothing wastes more time than sitting in the cart watching someone else play
• Be helpful to others in your group
• Be aware of how much time you spend looking for balls in the woods (3 minute rule)
• Be efficient on the putting green
• Fill out the scorecard on the next tee box
• Accept responsibility: Recognize that slow play isn’t just the other guy’s fault
• Course Conditions/Abuse: Every member of the Player's Club is responsible for maintaining the golf course, in terms of: replacing divots, fixing ball marks, raking the bunkers, placing refuse in the garbage cans.  If you are observed in violation, you will be given one warning, any additional violations will result in disqualification.

Inclement Weather: Severe weather related conditions may prevent, delay or suspend play when the course is rendered unplayable, or the safety of players is at risk, as determined by golf course staff. Keney Park Player’s Club will do everything possible to complete the full number of holes in a tournament.

Tournaments, especially in the spring and fall, can be delayed due to frost. Participants should remain on the premises and wait for the tournament to start. Please check your email, the KPGC website, Facebook or Instagram feeds for current information and updates regarding weather issues and frost delays.

Posting Scores: The Golf Shop will post all scores from KPPC events to GHIN. Members are responsible to post their own scores in these situations:

• Post scores from home and away courses played outside of KPPC events
• Post scores in all forms of play; match play, stroke play, including team competitions in which you are requested to pick up.
• A player must play all 9 holes to post a 9-hole score. These holes must have a valid 9-hole Course Rating and Slope Rating. If you play between 10 and 17 holes, it is posted as a 10-17 hole score using a hole-by-hole entry, not a 9-hole score.
  • A player who plays between 10-17 holes is required to post their scores hole-by-hole so the appropriate Score Differential can be calculated from the holes that were played to combine with the expected score for the holes not played.
• Post scores played in an area observing an active season even when your home club is in an inactive season.
• Failure by a member to post scores in the situations above can result in the member’s handicap being reduced for KPPC events.
• Members should not post a score in these situations:
  • If you played fewer than 9 holes.
  • When you play in a competition limiting the types of clubs used, such as a one­club or irons­only event.
  • When playing in an alternate format such as a Scramble, Shamble, or Alternate Shot.
  • Do not post scores made in an area observing an inactive season.

Net Double Bogey: Players are expected to post all scores of all rounds played under the Rules of Golf and Rules of Handicapping guidelines.  Under the World Handicap System, Net Double Bogey is the maximum hole score for handicap purposes (Rule 3.1b in Rules of Handicapping).  Following a round of golf, any hole scores that exceed Net Double Bogey should be adjusted as follows for handicap purposes. There is no limit to the number of holes that may be adjusted.

How it’s calculated:

Par (On the Hole) + 2 Strokes + Any Handicap Strokes Allotted for The Hole

If a format allows a player to stop at Net Double Bogey (example is match play or four-ball when partner has holed out), the player may pick up their ball and move on.  If the format doesn’t allow a player to pick up their ball until it’s holed, the player, when necessary, should adjust and submit the appropriate Net Double Bogey score when posting in the GHIN system.

Tournament Descriptions

2 Person Best Ball

This is a 2-person team gross/net event. Each member of the team plays his own ball. On each hole, the low gross score of the team counts as the team gross score, and the low net score of the team counts as the team net score.

Blind Two-Person Best Ball

All competitors will keep an 18 hole individual hole-by-hole score.  At the end of scoring two man teams will be made randomly by the computer and scored as best one ball, gross and net.

Member-Member

Our first Major Championship of the season is a Two-Player Better Ball playing Round Robin Matches within Flights. Three 9-Hole Matches will be played on the Saturday of the event, while two 9-Hole Matches will be played on the Sunday of the event.

Club Championship

The Club Championship consists of three flights: Championship, A, and B. The Championship Flight will play 18 holes of stroke play qualifying to determine the top 7 scores. Those top 7 plus the Defending Champion will play three rounds of single elimination match play. Flights A and B will play 36 holes of Stroke Play.

Fall Classic

Two person event where on the first day the front 9 is played as a Better Ball and the back 9 is played as scramble.  On the second day, the front 9 is a scramble and the back 9 is a Better Ball.

Individual Gross and Net

This is an individual gross and net event. The player plays his own ball and his score alone counts toward his total.

Sheep, Shepherd, and Crooks

This is a 36 hole stroke play event.  The Shepherd’s Cup is a gross only event with play from the Gold Tees, and the Crooks Cup is Gross only from the Blue Tees, and the Sheep’s Cup is net only from either the Blue or White Tees.

Stableford

This is a scoring format in which points are awarded based on the number of strokes taken on each hole as follows:

Double Bogey or worse           0

Bogey                                               1

Par                                                     2

Birdie                                                3

Eagle                                                4

Double Eagle                                5

Chicago Points:

Each player is assigned a quota by subtracting their course handicap from 36.  The goal is to fill the quota using the Stableford points system.  A positive score number indicates they have successfully “beat their handicap.”

Four Person Progressive:

It is played as a four person best ball with the number of balls used rotating.  The first hole is one best ball, the second hole is two best balls and the third hole, three best balls.  The fourth hole it goes back to one best ball.  The rotation continues for the remainder of the 18 holes.

Local Rules

Cart paths – All paved paths are Immovable Obstructions. The ball may be lifted, without penalty, and dropped in accordance with the procedure prescribed in Rule 16.1a. Rocks and stones attached to the sides of cart paths are part of the cart path. Loose rocks and stones close to cart paths are Loose Impediments. White-Lined Areas Tying into Artificially Surfaced Roads and Paths have the same status as the roads and paths.

Distance-measuring devices – A player may use a device to measure or gauge distance only - Rule 4.3a(1). However, if a distance-measuring device has additional functionality that can gauge or measure other conditions that might affect a player’s play (e.g. elevation change, wind-speed, etc.), the use of any such additional function would be a breach of Rule 4.3.

Embedded Ball – When a player’s ball is embedded in the “General Area” and relief is allowed under Rule 16.3a, the player may take free relief by dropping the original ball or another ball in this relief area (one club length, no closer to the hole from the reference point).

Ground Under Repair – Defined by white lines. French drains both covered and uncovered in the general area are ground under repair, even if not marked. The white lines are considered in ground under repair.

Immovable Obstructions – All artificial objects on the course, including, but not limited to shelters, Clubhouse, telephone poles, birdhouses, sprinkler heads, and irrigation control boxes. If a ball has interference from the immovable obstruction, including when it is known or virtually certain that a ball that has not been found came to rest in the immovable obstruction, the player may lift, without penalty, and drop a ball in accordance with the procedure prescribed in Rule 16.1. A player also may take relief under Rule 16.1b if an immovable obstruction is on the line of play and is within two club-lengths of the putting green, and within two club-lengths of the ball.

Black plastic liner around the greens - If your stance or swing is impeded by the plastic liner around the green, you may take free relief as follows:

• Ball on the Putting Green – Reference point is nearest point, no closer to the hole and place the ball (Rule 16.1d).
• Ball In General Area – Reference point is nearest point, no closer to the hole and drop the ball (Rule 16.1b).

Hole #9 Special Notes – The entire clubhouse area to the right and beyond hole #9 green, including the clubhouse, golf car storage, and patio area are treated as immovable obstruction. A player may:

• Take free relief under Rule 16.1, or
• As an additional option, take free relief by dropping the original or another ball in the nearest dropping zone to where the ball lies in the obstruction. The dropping zones are a relief area under Rule 14.3.

The telephone pole to the right of the green is an immovable obstruction. Relief will be granted for stance and swing only. A ball that strikes the pole, guide wires or any wire attached will require a replay of the shot.

Loose impediments in bunkers – Loose impediments may be removed from bunkers without penalty (Rule 12.2 & Rule 15.1).

Low Lying Areas - In the specific and limited areas in the fairways of holes 2, 5, 12, and 15, players may mark, lift, clean, and place their ball within one club length of their ball’s original position. Players must receive confirmation from their marker in Stroke Play (and Opponent in Match Play) that their ball has come to result in one of these qualifying areas, specifically, and limited to:

#2 – Low lying areas just before and after the brook

#5 – The bottom of the hill just short of the green

#12 – Low lying area in the fairway

#15 – Low lying areas before and after the brook

Music playing devices – Players should ensure that any electronic device taken onto the course does not distract other players or is used in a way that breaches Rule 4.3a(4). Players are prohibited from wearing headphones during a round in any tournament.

Out of Bounds – Defined by inside points, at ground level, of large white stakes, or defined property boundaries. Such stakes themselves are Out of Bounds (Rule 18.2). The wooden guide-rail fence along #9 and #10 defines Out of Bounds.

Red Penalty Areas – When a Red Penalty Area is defined on only one side, it is deemed to extend to infinity.

Use, Repair or Replacement of Club Damaged During Round – If a conforming club is damaged during a round or while play is stopped under Rule 5.7a, except in cases of abuse, the player may repair it or replace it with another club (Rule 4.1a(2)).

Hole #12 – Stone Wall - The stone wall on hole #12 is deemed to be an integral part of the course.  As such, it is not an obstruction, and no relief will be granted.

Course Marking

1. RED PENALTY AREA in fescue to the left of the green and cart path towards hole #2. Large round shape. 
2. RED PENALTY AREA as described in Hole #1. OUT OF BOUNDS right side of fairway. RED PENALTY AREA crossing the hole and extending left towards Hole #4, and extending right and terminating at fence denoting OUT OF BOUNDS. RED PENALTY AREA on right after the creek. RED PENALTY AREA on left after the creek and left of the cartpath, with a line extending to the dump and picking up at Hole #3. 
3. RED PENALTY AREA in front of the tee and extending to the left to connect back to Hole #2 and extending right into the woods. RED PENALTY AREA on opposite side of the bridge, extending left all the way to #4, and extending right towards #4. 
4. RED PENALTY AREA along left side and going back to #2. 
5. No course markings
6. No course markings
7. No course markings
8. No course markings
9. OUT OF BOUNDS right past wooden guide-rail fence. Entire clubhouse, patio, cart staging, cart barn is an immovable obstruction. 
10. OUT OF BOUNDS right past wooden guide-rail fence. RED PENALTY AREA on left past bunker which ties around to Hole #12, Hole #13, Hole #14, and Hole #15. 
11. RED PENALTY AREA beyond and to the right of the green. 
12. RED PENALTY AREA along the left side of the hole. OUT OF BOUNDS on the right past the stone wall. 
13. RED PENALTY AREA in front of lower tee box, along the left and along the right side, extending towards hole #14. 
14. OUT OF BOUNDS along the right side of the hole marked with a white line and stakes to protect Soldiers Field Cemetery. RED PENALTY AREA left looping around to #15. 
15. RED PENALTY AREA of creek across hole. 
16. RED PENALTY AREA across hole on tee shot. RED PENALTY AREA left of cartpath along hole. 
17. RED PENALTY AREA across hole and extending along left side of hole and looping back to #16. 
18. Cart paths and cart staging and caddy shack are all immovable obstructions.