Weekend Interclub Competition Rules
JUNIOR GRADES
Premier Juniors – Watt Cup
1. Format
Championship Grade format is matchplay without handicap. There shall be 4 players in each team
contesting 4 singles matches and 2 team-ball matches. Play is in fours, with two members of each
team in each four. The best score on each hole by each team in each four advances to a team-ball.
One point is contested for each singles match and one point for each team-ball match.
Teams may be mixed, boys and girls. Play for boys is to be played off the Back Club Tees,
commonly referred to as the Blue tees or equivalent and play for girls of the Forward Club Tees,
commonly referred to at the White tees or equivalent.
2. Eligibility
Junior Premier is restricted to players under 19 years of age as at the 1 February in the year of the
competition.
Specific Rules apply to Clubs with more than one team in the Premier Grade to restrict the movement
of players between those teams, preserve the fairness of the competition and retain the right of Clubs
to utilise the players available.
Clubs with two teams must:
 Nominate which of their teams is the higher ranked team.
 Nominate the four first choice players for each team
 Nominate two players in each team who may not play in the other team.
Players may move between teams provided:
 They are not one of the two players nominated as not being able to move between teams
 Players not nominated as first choice players may play no more than two matches for
either team, but thereafter they may play for one or other of the teams but not both.
The play in the post round-robin elimination rounds, a player must have played at least two matches
in the round robin play.
3. Competition
There will be 8 teams and each team will play each other once.
At the conclusion of Section Play, the four teams which have scored the most points, not being a Club
with two teams in the Premier Grade will advance to contest the Watt Cup, with the remainder of the
teams contesting the second Division.
Where a Club has two teams in the top four, the lower placed of the two teams will contest the
Second Division, with their place being taken by the next highest eligible team. Clubs may have two
teams in the Second Division.
The Watt Cup is to be decided by elimination series, where the top placed team plays the fourth
placed team and the second placed team plays the third placed team. The two winners play off for
the Watt Cup.
The second Division is to be decide by an elimination series, where the fifth placed team plays the
eighth placed team and the sixth placed team plays the seventh placed team. The two winners play
off for the Second Division Championship.
4.
Hosting
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All matches will be played at the same course concurrently. Each Club in the Junior Premier Grade
will host one round of Section play. Teams playing a fixture at their home course will normally play
one fixture against another team at their home course.
The semi-final of the Watt Cup will be played at the course of the Club which placed fifth, provided
that Club has not a team in the Watt Cup. The semi-final of the Second Division will be played at the
course of the Club which placed first, provided that Club has not a team in the Second Division. In
the case where a Club may not host due to these conditions, hosting drops to the next placed eligible
Club.
The final of the Watt Cup and the Second Division will be played at the Club of the highest ranked
losing semi-finalist which has not a team in the finals.
Club Juniors – Pennants
1. Format
The Pennants format is Stableford Strokeplay on handicap. There shall be four players in each team
and play is to be in fours with two members of each team in each four. There shall be 4 singles
stableford contested and two combined stableford contested.
At the conclusion of each round, for the singles, the two stableford scores of each contesting pair are
compared, with the highest stableford score winning. For the combined, the two members of each
team in each four shall add their stablefords together and the combined score compared to the
combined stableford of the other pair, with the highest combined total winning.
One point is scored for each win, and half a point for each tie.
Teams may be mixed, boys and girls. Play for boys is to be played off the Forward Club Tees,
commonly referred to as the White tees or equivalent and play for girls of the Ladies Club Tees,
commonly referred to at the Yellow tees or equivalent.
2. Eligibility
Junior Pennants is restricted to players under 19 years of age as at the 1 February in the year of the
competition.
Specific Rules apply to Clubs with more than one team in the Pennants Grade to restrict the
movement of players between those teams, preserve the fairness of the competition and retain the
right of Clubs to utilise the players available.
Clubs with two teams must:
 Nominate which of their teams is the higher ranked team.
 Nominate the four first choice players for each team
 Nominate two players in each team who may not play in the other team.
Players may move between teams provided:
 They are not one of the two players nominated as not being able to move between teams
 Players not nominated as first choice players may play no more than two matches for
either team, but thereafter they may play for one or other of the teams but not both.
3. Competition
There will be 8 teams and each team will play each other once.
The competition will be decided by points earned during the round robin.
5.
Hosting
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All matches will be played at the same course concurrently. Each Club in the Junior Pennants Grade
will host one round of Section play. Teams playing a fixture at their home course will normally play
one fixture against another team at their home course.
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