Caddies:  Players may ONLY have one caddy to carry their bag and equipment and give advice.

Transportation:  The following cart policy has been established as a pace-of-play initiative and to help as a potential evacuation plan should weather become a factor.  The SFPGA staff will be working with each host facility to utilize a two-cart per group system (group = 4 players).  Team members must walk the hole during play, but they can keep their clubs on the golf cart at all times.  Parents will be asked to utilize the golf carts to shuttle players out to their starting hole, back to the clubhouse from their finishing hole and also shuttle between holes from green-to-tee.  The SFPGA staff will coordinate with each host facility on fees specific to the use of golf carts and the course, and will try to avoid any additional costs that parents may have to pay on-site for use of these specific golf carts.  Should parents be required to pay additional fees on-site to the host facility for use of golf carts, the SFPGA staff will notify each team coach in advance of the tournament.  Please keep in mind parents are NOT required to pay for a golf cart (they can still walk).

NOTE:  The above transportation policy is based on the availability at each host facility with golf carts.  Please keep in mind, some facilities may not have enough golf carts in their fleet to accomodate our needs.  The SFPGA does permit pull carts.  However, they will be allowed only at the discretion of the host facility.  It is the players' responsibility to obtain course policy.

NOTE:  If available, additional spectator golf carts will be available for purchase at the discretion of the host facility.  If these additional spectator golf carts are permissible:

• Spectator carts must remain on the cart path at all times.
• Only two riders are allowed in a golf cart at one time.

The South Florida PGA will allow the use of distance measuring devices in all Team Golf tournaments.  The devices can only measure distance.  The use of devices that gauge or measure other conditions that may affect a player's play (e.g. wind or gradient), regardless of whether used, is NOT permitted.

Play is governed by the USGA Rules of Golf and its Decisions.  However, Team Golf incorporates a number of player friendly qualities to ensure the mission is upheld.

1. Stroke Limit:  Each tournament will have the following stroke limits based on each hole.
   
   Par 5 = Max 7 strokes.
   Par 4 = Max 6 strokes.
   Par 3 = Max 5 strokes.
   
   Any team who has reached the maximum stroke limit on a hole and has not holed out must pick up their golf balls and proceed to the next tee.  NOTE:  This does not exclude the team from receiving points and awards.
    
2. One (1) Stroke Maximum Out of Bunkers:  If both players on a two-person team fail to hit out of a bunker on their first attempt, they may drop outside of the bunker one club length from their nearest point of relief, no closer to the hole, with NO penalty stroke added.
    
3. Water Hazard Rule:  If both players on a two-person team hit their ball into a water hazard they have the option to, under penalty of one stroke, drop a ball as close as possible on the opposite side of the water, even if it is closer to the hole, and continue play from there.
    
4. Continuous putting on green (first team to putt on green will finish out).
    
5. Practice Swings:  Two (2) practice stroke maximum for each player.

The format for each Team Golf tournament will be a two-person SCRAMBLE playing 9-holes.

In this format, each player may tee off on each hole. The best of the tee shots is selected by the two-person team and those two players play their second shots from that spot.  The best of the second shots is determined, then play their third shots from that spot.  Play continues in this manner by each two-person team until the hole is completed.