Rules Update*
During the last week I’ve been in discussion with the Board about the Rules Committee for each tournament and its effectiveness for resolving a rules issue if members of the committee are out on the course or have left for the day. We have adopted a new rules committee format and procedures for handling a rules committee question/issue. Below is the Rules Committee Procedures and Committee Members
2022 Rules Committee members
Greg Kline – tournament commissioner
Rich Dunmore – tournament commissioner
Corey McCue – tournament commissioner
Chuck Withey – tournament commissioner
Jeff Klipa
Mike Prieskorn
Tom W Litzler
Thom Hoelzle
Bill Gordon
David Martin
Tim Markel
Helen Puffenberger
Brian Lardin
Nancy Hiestand
Jeff Graunke
Rules Committee Procedures
Group with the Rules Committee issue/question will go to the Tournament Commissioner and advise him that there is a rules committee issue/question that needs to be discussed and resolved
Commissioner will gather up 2 additional members from the 2022 Rules Committee to form a quorum of 3 to hear the issue/question.
Realize this could take up to 15 minutes or so depending on which members of the Rules Committee are playing in the tournament and that they could still be out on the course.
Worst case scenario in that it is the last group of the day and/or there are no other Rules Committee members available the Tournament Commissioner will call an additional Tournament Commissioner and conduct the meeting as a conference call.
The Rules Committee (3) and the Group will move off to a more private area of the club house, golf course, practice area to discuss the issue/question. We would want all 4 members of the group to attend the meeting.
The Rules Committee will hear the issue/question, discuss it and based on the discussion render a decision by majority (2 of 3) by the rules committee.
Please note in the worst case scenario (conference call which is only using 2 people on the committee we need a unanimous vote by the 2 committee members)
The rules decision will be applied to the players scorecard for the tournament and the issue resolved.
Thanks
Chuck
*Remember Rule #1 and Rule #2