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GOLF HANDBOOK

Revised: May 2025

 TURTLE CREEK GOLF COURSE

 RAVEN'S CLAW GOLF COURSE

 October 13-14, 2025

District One Golf Chairmen

Jake Serfass, AD Phoenixville SerfassJ@pasd.com

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Bobby Kurzweg, AD Upper Perkiomen rkurzweg@upsd.org

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Tournament Rules Officials: Philadelphia Section PGA

         Zac Zerbo: zzerbo@pgahq.com

         Ryan Conroy: rconroy@pgahq.com

         David Mesina: dmessina@pgahq.com

DISTRICT ONE GOLF TOURNAMENT

COACH INFORMATION – Assignments

FORECADDIE/SPOTTER - Has the responsibility to go out ahead of a group and spot tee shots and help find all errant shots. WILL CALL RULES OFFICIALS IF / WHEN REQUESTED. SHOULD NOT MAKE ANY DECISIONS.

MARSHALL - as the responsibility to monitor players/pace of play and spectators on the course. WILL CALL RULES OFFICIALS IF / WHEN REQUESTED. SHOULD NOT MAKE ANY DECISIONS.

MONITORS - has the responsibility of recording the score on the live scoring app either following a specific group or at a specific hole. IF YOU ARE ASSIGNED TO BE A MONITOR, YOU ARE NOT TO BE MAKING ANY RULINGS WHATSOEVER. THERE ARE PGA RULES OFFICIALS ON SITE

PARENTS/SPECTATORS - See below for the rules of spectators while watching a District One golf championship. Spectators must stay on cart paths or in the rough, and stay OFF fairways, greens and tees. Spectators should remain one shot ahead of the group they are following. This will allow spectators to follow errant shots and help identify spots in which a ball may come to rest. Spectators are encouraged to help players and staff search for golf balls.

PGA Rules officials are the only individuals who give rulings to players. 

NO coaching or rulings by coaches are permitted.

Assignments for Golf Coaches have been established for the purpose of providing an efficient and well-supervised tournament.  Your cooperation is appreciated.

NOTES: Coaches must register with player(s), at that time coaches will be given an assignment.

Assignments: Day 1 Girls at Ravens Claw

         Monitors with each group conducting Live Scoring and           Spotters.

          Registration Personnel

 Assignments at Turtle Creek:

          There will be one monitor per group on day 1; They              will be conducting live scoring.

          There will be a monitor per hold for a period of the                day on day 2. Monitors will be responsible for                        recording the scores.

          Spotters will be needed on holes 5-6-8-10-12-18

There will be a local tournament rule that DOES NOT ALLOW listening devices or headphones during competition.

DISTRICT ONE INDIVIDUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

ENTRY QUALIFICATIONS

All players must qualify through a League Tournament, and/or qualifying Tournament.  Players’ names must be typed and submitted by a League District I Committee Representative.

The number of teams competing in each League Tournament x 1.75 is the maximum number of qualifiers from your League. The Girls qualifiers will be determined by the number of schools represented at the league qualifier.

If a league has mixed classifications (AA/AAA), the classification that has the larger number of teams will be the number used to multiply by 1.75. 

Boys must shoot a score that is 16 strokes or lower over the men’s course rating for the tees they are playing from. (Ex. Course rating 70.0 = 86 or lower)

Girls must shoot a score that is 28 strokes or lower over the women’s course rating for the tees they are playing from. (Ex. Course rating 70.0 = 98 or lower)

Any independent school may participate in any league qualifier (but only one), and their players must shoot a score that is equal to or less than the highest posted qualifying score to be eligible for Districts. (Ex. 16 over the course rating is 84 but the highest score from the qualifiers was 79.  The independent school players must shoot 79 or better).

ENTRY DEADLINE: 

Entries must be received by the Wednesday before the Tournament 12:00AM

All D1 Individual and Team Tournament Entries must include:

○   Player’s Names

○   Scores

○   School Name

○   Grade

Every effort will made to pair league champions together

SEND ENTRIES TO: Golf Chairperson Bobby Kurzweg at rkurzweg@upsd.org  with the following in the subject line: DISTRICT 1 TOURNAMENT ENTRY

TOURNAMENT DATES and TIMES

1^ST ROUND (qualifying):

Boys (2A/3A) at Turtle Creek Golf Course

Registration – 8:00 am Players and Coaches must register upon arrival

Range at Turtle Creek open - 8am

Shotgun start at 9:00AM (start time is subject to change if weather conditions dictate)

Girls and Girls Teams (2A/3A) at Raven’s Claw Golf Club

Registration – 8:00 AM Players and Coaches must register upon arrival

Range at Raven's Claw* open - 8am

Shotgun start at 9:00AM (start time is subject to change if weather conditions dictate)

Criteria for Cutting the Field from Day 1 to Day 2

• 3A Boys:  30 and ties. 
• 3A Girls:  15 and ties
• 2A Boys:  25% x the number of AA boys in the field (or no less than 4). 
• 2A Girls:  30% x the number of AA girls in the field (or no less than 3).

FINAL ROUND– at Turtle Creek Golf Course 

• Registration – 8:00am Players and Coaches must register upon arrival. (Coaches must register with their players to receive their assignments.) 

•  Tee-times begin at 9:00 AM (start time is subject to change if weather conditions dictate)

• The sum of the two rounds will determine the District's top (17) 3A Boys and top (9) 3A Girls.

• The sum of the two rounds will determine the District's top (2) 2A Boys and (1) 2A Girl.

• 2A Girls & Boys will play in sub-regional

PLAYOFFS: A playoff will be used to determine 1^st Place and the Final Regional Qualifying spot in case of ties. The individual tournament will have the priority over the team event in case of multiple playoffs. Holes for the playoff will be determined by the tournament committee. 

• Note: A player who is competing in both an individual playoff and then a team playoff must compete in both. His/her score from the individual playoff will NOT be used toward the team.   

STARTING TIMES and HOLE ASSIGNMENTS:

 Tee Times and hole assignments will be posted on the

         District One Website and the PGA Philadelphia Section

Contact Golf Chairperson for information on the Friday before the tournament from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

SUPERVISION:  the supervision of golfers is the responsibility of the school which they represent.  A school faculty member or a school designated representative must accompany them.  Coaches and/or school representatives will be assigned responsibilities throughout the Tournament.  If a school does not send a representative or he/she leaves early, the District Committee will call the school involved and have it pick up its players.

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

3A BOYS –   Medals will be awarded to the top 17 finishers

3A GIRLS – Medals will be awarded to the top 9 girls.

2A BOYS – Medals will be awarded to the 1^st and 2^nd Place finishers.

2A GIRLS – Medal will be awarded to the 1^st Place finisher.

DISTRICT ONE TEAM GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

ENTRY QUALIFICATIONS

The team champion from each League or Division (Ches-Mont and S.O.L.) qualifies for the District One Team Championship.

In addition, a LEAGUE may send (1) additional team. To do so, a request must be made with supporting arguments to the District Chairperson. From there members of the steering committee will convene and vote on whether or not they will allow the additional team to be entered into the field.

BOYS (2A / 3A) - Each team will bring 5 golfers and score 4.

GIRLS (2A / 3A) - Each team will bring 3 to 5 golfers and score 3.

ENTRY DEADLINE: 

Entries must be typed and received by the Thursday before the Tournament at 8PM

All D1 Individual and Team Tournament Entries must include:

○   School Name

○   Player’s Names

○   Grade

SEND ENTRIES TO: Bobby Kurzweg at rkurzweg@upsd.org with following in the  subject line: DISTRICT 1 TOURNAMENT ENTRY

ADDITIONAL TEAM INFORMATION:

All District Boys Team Champions must have an aggregate score of 400 or less in order to advance on to the Sub-Regional or PIAA Tournament.

All District Girls Team Champions must have an aggregate score of 300 or less in order to advance on to the Sub-Regional or the PIAA Tournament.

District One will award Team Championships to 2A Boys and Girls / 3A Boys and Girls Teams.

3A Boys and 3A Girls Team Champions will advance straight to the PIAA Team Tournament

There will be 2 additional team qualifiers per classification and gender based on the tie breaking formula.

Only one additional team from a district can be eligible for this additional entry.

2A Boys and 2A Girls Team Champions may have to participate in a PIAA Sub-Regional Tournament with DXI and DXII. If DXI and DXII do not have AA teams, the District One AA Team Champion will advance to the PIAA Team Tournament.

GIRLS - If the only 2A girls’ teams are from the same league, the league will determine the 2A Girls District One Team Champion.

BOYS - a league composed of 2A schools - will determine their league champion and come to Day 2 of districts and compete for the 2A title against other 2A schools from other leagues. If there are no other 2A schools, that league will determine the District I 2A team champion. (same as 2A girls)

If a school is the sole 3A or 2A school in their league and can shoot the qualifying score (400 team aggregate), they will come to day 2 of districts and compete for the District 1 Team Championship.

If an independent school wants to compete in the District Team Championship, the school must enter their team (4 or 5 players) in a league qualifier, and their players must shoot a team aggregate score of 400 (for 4 players).

GIRLS Team must shoot a qualifying score of 300 (3 players)

TEAM TOURNAMENT DATES and TIMES

The Boys Team competition will coincide with the second day of the individual Championships (Tuesday, October 14^th, 2025).

The format for the Boys Tournament is 18 holes of stroke play with the lowest team total counting 4 players’ scores determining the District One Team Champion.

The Girls Team competition will coincide with the Girls first round of individual competition (Monday, October 13^th, 2025). 

The format for the Girls Tournament is 18 holes of stroke play with the lowest team total counting 3 players’ scores determining the District One Team Champion.

PLAYOFFS:  In case of a tie please see below:

Boys: If teams are tied the following procedure will occur in order to break a team tie.

• Since each team brought 5 golfers and scored 4, the score of the 5th golfer will be the first tiebreaker.
• If the 5th golfer from each school tied, then we will remove the 4th and 5th scores and add the top 3.
• If a tie still exists then the 3rd score is removed
• If a tie still exists then the 2nd score is removed
• If a tie still exists then a team stroke playoff occurs

The coaches will select the 4 golfers they wish to participate in the playoff. They will send out players 3 and 4 first, and then players 1 and 2.

Boys will start on hole #1. If after the first playoff hole the teams are still tied, we will proceed to hole # 8, then #9 and back to #1, etc. until a champion is determined.

Girls: Since each team only scores 3 and the number of athletes per team does fluctuate, the same playoff procedure will occur that it has in the past.

Girls will start on hole #1 and will keep playing forward until the champion is determined.

If one girls’ team only has three or four players they will send their three or four out against the other teams five players

*The Tournament Director may adjust the playoff holes if there are circumstances that are beyond their control.

In the event of suspension of play, the teams may be asked to come back Saturday to finish. 

The holes that will be played will be dictated by course availability. (NOTE: In the event the two teams tied are from a similar location and they can secure a golf course closer to themselves they will have that option).

A player who is competing in both an individual playoff and then a team playoff must compete in both. His/her score from the individual playoff will NOT be used toward the team. 

The USGA tiebreaker rule will be used to break the tie for second place team medals.                                       

DISTRICT ONE TEAM AWARDS

Team trophy and medals will be awarded to the coach and players of the District One Team Champion.

Medals will be awarded to the second-place team.

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 DISTRICT ONE GOLF TOURNAMENT

PLAYER’S INFORMAT

GENERAL INFORMATION:

PARTICIPANT DRESS CODE:  all participants must wear proper golfing attire (i.e., all shirts must be tailored for golf and golf slacks, or golf shorts are permitted).

PRACTICE ROUND: Turtle Creek Golf Course will be allowing practice rounds Monday through Sunday any time after 1:00 p.m.

Rates are contingent upon golf course for coaches and adults.

Player Rate: please check with course. 

Practice Times: please contact Pro Shop

○   Turtle Creek Golf Course   610-489-5133

○   Raven’s Claw Golf Club     610-495-4710

INCLEMENT WEATHER

• If weather conditions do not allow us to conduct a safe and reasonable Tournament we will postpone. We do have a rain date reserved (Wednesday, October 15^th, 2025) for this possibility.  If two days are postponed, we will then conduct an 18-hole tournament. The decision will be made to postpone by 7:00 am and will be posted on the  District One and PGA Philadelphia Section

COURSE LOCATIONS

• TURTLE CREEK or call 610-489-5133
• RAVEN’S CLAW or call 610-495-4710  

FINAL DAY INFORMATION

Information covering the PIAA State Golf Championships will be distributed to those Schools involved at the conclusion of the final day’s competition.

RULES: all rules that pertain to the Individual Tournament will apply to the Team Tournament.

Following players will advance to the PIAA State Championships.

• 3A BOYS – top 17 District finishers
• 3A GIRLS – top 9 District finishers
• 2A BOYS – top 2 District One finishers
• 2A GIRLS – top 1 District One finisher 

2025 PIAA Championship Dates

Individual Championships @ Penn State Blue and White Course (Tee Times): can be found on the PIAA website

https://www.piaa.org/sports/championship_details.aspx?sport=golf 

District One Committee Rule Clarifications

Disqualification of Golfers

Players may not use any type of tobacco products while competing.

Unsportsmanlike conduct such as club throwing, using profanity or damaging the course is prohibited.

Players who miss their assigned starting time without notifying the District One Committee Representative.

 Failure to hole out on any hole during a stipulated round.

 Soliciting coaching or advice from outside parties:

 Removal from group - 2 Stroke penalty - Disqualification

Failure to sign the score card or sign for a lower hole score than was actually shot.

Additional Information

Electronic distance measuring devices are permitted. Devices are limited to measuring distance ONLY. Devices measuring elevation or wind may not be used or that feature must be turned off.  

• NO practice is allowed on the competition course before or during a stipulated round. (e.g., no re-putting). 

• Carts are not permitted for spectators (unless hcp placard is shown) 

• No caddies are permitted. Spectators are asked to stay on the cart paths and at least 25 feet away.  

• Electronic scoring will be provided by the Philadelphia PGA