Costa Mesa Seniors Golf Association

New Rules

Mesa Linda has a new scorecard circulating and Los Lagos will have one soon.  

The scorecard now states: no relief from flower beds, which is the rule for city sponsored tournaments.  

We will update our local rules to comply.  A flower bed is no longer considered equivalent to ground under repair.  Relief with a one stroke penalty may allowed per USGA rules for an unplayable lie, if that applies, permitting a drop within two club lengths from the location of the ball, no closer to the hole.

Another rule update deals with hole # 8 on Mesa Linda.  As yellow stakes are no longer being placed, the water will be played as a red penalty area.  When a ball enters the red penalty area from the green side of the hole, this now allows the option of dropping a ball, with a one stroke penalty, within two club lengths of where the ball entered the penalty area, no closer to the hole.

Both Mesa Linda and Los Lagos were recently re-rated by the SCGA.  The new rating changes are small and will not have much effect on handicaps.  We will begin using the new ratings once they are implemented in the GHIN and Golf Genius apps.