Men's Night starts on Wednesday

Men's Night begins this Wednesday after a long winter and an unexpected spring quarantine. While we are excited to get going, it is important that we share some important COVID-19 safety guidelines.

These guidelines are essential not for appropriate social distancing but because of provincial directives for golf courses. It is essential that all golfers adhere to these protocols to minimize risk and to limit exposure for the golf course. Please help us keep the golf safe for all involved.

The guidelines for Men's Night are as follows:

• Golfers showing signs of Covid-19 may not participate.
• Limit to groups of 4 at all times.
• All golfers must have their own power cart unless members of the same household.
• Maintain appropriate social distancing.
• Golfers must not gather in groups of more than 10 before, during, or after the round.
• No touching the flag sticks. The flags must remain in the holes. The ball must stay in cup to be considered holed out.
• No hugging or hand shaking.
• Sign up in Club House. It is recommended that you bring your own pen or pencil.
• Pay your $10 Men’s’ Night fee in container in Club House. Please try to use exact change to minimize handling of money.
• Get a regular course scorecard from the Club House and use this for all players scores. At the end of the round, and no later than midnight, text a picture of the scorecard to Stephen David @ 847-0161. Paper copies of scorecards will not be accepted.
• Scoring will be done no sooner than noon the following day. Prize winners will be notified by text that they have won a prize. Prize winners will also be listed on the Men’s Night blog.
• Our hope is to set up e-transfer for payment of prizes and possibly payment of entry fee.
• Any golfers who do not follow the social distancing / rules of play may use their Men’s’ Night privileges.

To help us prepare for one of the challenges, let's imagine the following scenarios:

• You are about to tee off at 6:30 pm in a group of 4 and a friend pulls up into the parking lot. Let's call him Milt. You contemplate inviting Milt to join you making it a group of 5. Unfortunately you realize that is not possible so you wish Milt a nice evening and good luck in finding a group.
• You actually end up letting Milt join you one week just to be nice. On your third hole someone tells you that you can't golf in groups of 5. You aren't angry on being caught. Instead you are grateful for the reminder and quickly break up into a groups of 2 and 3.
• There is this guy named Darcy who often plays with you who catches a ride each week. This year he either walks or rents a car because you aren't in the same household.
• A young golfer named Stephen chips in for eagle on the first hole. You run to embrace them but realize that you can't...so you congratulate him from 6 feet.
• A guy named Robin pays his fee and lights it up during the round shooting a 34. He thinks he will likely win a few skins. Unfortunately he forgets to text a picture of his scorecard to Stephen. The prizes are done early Thursday afternoon and Robin notes that he didn't win anything. When he inquires about it he realizes his oversight before apologizing to Stephen for being so absent-minded.

We will continue on with the Ringer Board this year. There is a list of rules on this blog that you may reference. If you are interested in participating put your $10 in the collection bucket and note "Ringer Board" after your name on the sign up sheet.

Enjoy the remainder of your long weekend and see you all on Wednesday...from a socially appropriate distance.