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Two emails in one day? Yep. Had to get this out before our first OPC.
OPC Tees
The Good News is that you get to pick’em: play the same all season or change weekly.
You’ll declare your tees upon check in with the OPC starter and mark it on your scorecard: Black, Blue, Green, Green/White, White, White/Gold, Gold, Gold/Silver, Silver.
The Bad News is that you can change weekly. Say what? The bad part of this is that if you start the hole on the wrong tee box, it’s two-stroke penalty and if not corrected, it’s a DQ. Ouch.
For 2025 OPCs, EMGA members are eligible to use the new Blue Course Gold/Silver Combination and Silver tee sets as well as the same on the Silver Course. We’ll have to wait a bit for an updated EGC Blue Course Scorecard and EGC App but the USGA GHIN app has been updated.
Also, please note that the Silver Course Gold/Silver combination has a unique tee on holes #6, #8, #12, #14, and #17. They’re marked by the old round tee markers with Gold and Silver painted tops.
Tournament Tees
So, for tournaments, we all had to declared tees at season start.
Here’s how the numbers stand for each tee:
Silver- none
Gold/Silver – 3
Gold – 78
White/Gold – 5
White – 102
Rule 6 Playing the Hole has the details but the short answer is in OPC Stroke Play, playing outside the teeing area is two penalty strokes and requires you to re-tee it, start the hole over again and you are hitting your third shot. If you don’t catch yourself before making a stroke to start the next hole, it’s a DQ.
Choose wisely my friends,
Tom McKernan
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