With the multi-day Rules Seminars (and optional exam) completed for 2026, our attention is now focused on our half-day Rules offerings. These Seminars are perfect for new and experienced golfers alike.
Each Seminar reviews the Rules that influence four distinct areas/aspects of a golf course as follows: 1) Bunkers; 2) Greens; 3) Penalty Areas and Out of Bounds and 4) Immovable Obstructions. Attendees rotate through all four break-out topic discussions.
Two Seminars have already been conducted, but six remain as follows:
April 30 | Poppy Ridge GC (Livermore)May 1 | Haggin Oaks GC (Sacramento)May 2 | Haggin Oaks GC (Sacramento)May 6 | Sunnyside CC (Fresno)May 13 | Foxtail GC (Rohnert Park)June 18 | Incline Village GC (Incline Village)
There is a nominal fee for attendance which includes a light breakfast and lunch.
One vitally important aspect of the World Handicap System is that the “button” to update handicaps is “pushed” every evening at midnight. As such, it is critically important that golfers post their scores for the day by this time. This will ensure that the handicaps issued are as accurate and as timely as possible.
It is also important to understand that a review of all scores posted for the day for all golf courses is performed, likewise, at midnight each evening. And if it is found that the scores were exceptionally high (or low) for the day, a downward adjustment (or upward adjustment) to each differential will be made to the scores from that course.
This again stresses the importance of posting a round on the day that you play. If a golfer waits, for example, a day or more to post their score, they will inherit any adjustment for that date and course . . . but their round will NOT have been included in the review of scores that led to the decision to make an adjustment.
Get in the habit of posting the day that you play!
