Hampton Senior Men’s Golf Association-2025
Welcome to the 2025 Golf Season. We are looking forward to another great golf season for the group.
Aims & Objectives
The aim is to have each player meet and play with as many members as possible during the season.
The goal is to promote fellowship among the registered senior men’s club members who want to have fun, love the game of golf and through weekly play establish long lasting friendships.
Requesting preferred pairings will not be entertained, but the pairings may happen organically from time to time in a long golf season. Our monthly 2-man event will allow players to pick their own partners.
The goal is accomplished by:
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The elected chairman forming a committee to develop and support the Senior Golfing program.
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Each Tuesday morning, the senior committee schedules a variety of friendly competitions for the registered members. Each round of golf will take the form of a shotgun start.
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Players will be added to the tee sheet automatically for the following week. If you are not available, please send an email to hamptonseniormen@gmail.com preferably by Friday to be removed from the tee sheet for the following Tuesday.
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A sign-up sheet for the 2-man events will be made available the week prior at the registration tables, or you can send an e-mail with your team members to hamptonseniormen@gmail.com
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Playing within the RCGA rules of golf and local senior rules as posted in the Seniors bylaws.
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Assigning each player a handicap (calculated based on Senior Tuesday scoring results) for those that play competitively for prizes.
Senior Men’s Weather Advisory
Early on Tuesday morning, the weather radar will be monitored prior to 06:15. The senior committee will determine whether to cancel the shotgun start due to inclement weather. A final decision on a cancellation will be made prior to 06:30.
When the golf is cancelled, each member on the tee sheet will be advised via e-mail. The pro shop will remove the tee times when the golf is cancelled, and that will trigger a cancellation notice to the members on the tee sheet as well.
Members can call the pro shop to find out if golf is cancelled if they have to leave their home prior to 06:30.
Any 2-man event affected by weather cancellation may be rescheduled to a later date.
Membership Regulations & Dues:
The Hampton Senior Men’s Golf Association (HSMGA) is open to all senior men who are 55 or older, or a minimum 50 years of age and fully retired. Senior members must have an active 2025 Hampton 18-hole golf membership, in order to join this group.
The cost of joining the Seniors Men’s GA is $30.00 payable on the first day that you play. This fee is for an exclusive tee time on Tuesday morning, and to subsidize the end of year dinner and banquet expense.
A registration table will be set up on the first Tuesday morning of play, and for the following weeks for those that wish to join the senior golf group.
Weekly Competition Prizes:
Only registered members are eligible to play in the weekly competitions. Members can play for the camaraderie, fun and love of the game, or play competitively by paying $5.00 to play which pays out for closest to the pins on the par 3’s, and the top gross & net scores, and skins for each of the four handicap divisions. To enter the weekly competition, the $5.00 is paid in cash at the registration table on Tuesday morning.
Weekly Results are sent to all members via e-mail on Tuesday evening.
All prize winners for senior competitions will have the money deposited into
their personal Hampton club account.
Senior Men’s Information:
1) The first Senior Men’s golf day is scheduled for Tuesday, May 13 weather and course condition permitting. A sign-up sheet will be posted in the Men’s locker room or email hamptonseniormen@gmail.com to get added to the tee sheet.
2) Handicaps for all the players will be calculated based solely on Senior Tuesday scoring results, using the best 3 of the last 7 scores for your rolling handicap.
Please post all your scores on the Golf Canada website in order to maintain a valid handicap. This is required to be eligible to play in any NB Golf or Club structured tournaments, including the Hampton Senior Men’s Club Championship.
3) Higher handicap players of our group have the option of playing from the Silver/Bronze – Hybrid tees, or the forward tees. Please advise the executive of your request at registration, which requires approval based on scoring and driving distance.
4) The Hampton Senior Men’s Invitational is typically scheduled on a Tuesday having a 1 pm shotgun start. (Date to be determined and posted) It will play immediately following our Senior Tuesday morning. Each senior must decide whether to play in the morning with the Senior Men’s or in the afternoon Invitational.
The tournament rules states that seniors cannot play both morning and afternoon
5) The 2-man team tournaments (Best Ball, Scramble, Alternate Shot) will be held once per month throughout the season. We are also planning a Par 3 Tournament on the 1st Tuesday of October. A weekly schedule of events will be posted on the bulletin board at the beginning of the season.
6) The 2-Man Sign up sheet will be at the Tuesday registration table, the week prior to the tournament, then posted on the bulletin board. Please sign up prior to 2PM on Friday or e-mail hamptonseniormen@gmail.com for your team to be added to the upcoming Tuesday morning tee sheet.
7) We require each member to check in at the registration table on Tuesday morning, regardless if you Pay to Play or play for the fun. This allows for tee sheet balancing if and when we have some no shows. Our objective is to have at minimum 3 players per group.
**See rules for cancelling your tee time – item in Weekly Regulations
Senior Committee
The Committee shall consist of an elected Chairman, his appointed Vice-Chairman, as well as other committee members deemed necessary to properly run all functions of the Hampton Senior Men’s Golf Association.
Senior Bylaws & Playing Rules & Regulations
The RCGA official rules of golf shall apply at all times except:
– In Order To promote a faster pace of play and make this a fun golf outing, the following local Senior Rules will apply on the Tuesday morning shotgun.
Rules of Play: Posted on the Bulletin Board in the Men’s locker room.
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A ball which enters the woods, or crosses the out of bounds stakes may be played from a drop point of two club lengths (not nearer the hole) from the point where the ball is deemed to have entered the woods or went out of bounds. Add a penalty of one stroke to your score.
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A Maximum score is 3 over par on any hole. Once the maximum score is reached, the player must pick up the ball at that point, and record the max score for that hole.
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NOTE:A ball entering the water hazard on #13, must be dropped behind the water hazard, not on the side of the pond, as in regular play.
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During Wet course conditions, Lift, Clean and Place will be
announced prior to play and posted on the door glass at the
bottom of the stairs, and at the registration tables. The ball can
be moved within a 9-iron length, (in the same cut of grass) or
further as dictated by the wet conditions where the ball comes to
rest.
Fun Rules:
A few of our Seniors members opt to play for fun, and not pay to play. Since they are not focused so much on the scoring, the rules can be relaxed for them if they so chose. Their scores will be used for the weekly stats only.
Competitive Rule & Penalties - (Those that elect to pay $5.00)
Seniors that opt to play competitively for prize money (Pay to Play), must abide by the local senior rules and RCGA official rules of Golf. The official rules and penalties are in place to protect the integrity of the competition and to be fair to all the competitors in each handicap divisions.
PENALTIES
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IF YOU PAY TO PLAY, YOU MUST PUTT OUT EACH AND EVERY HOLE. If you do not hole the putt, a penalty of 3 over par (Maximum score) will be counted for that hole.
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Roll overs to improve the lie of the ball using a club is illegal, and is not permitted in the fairway, rough or from divots. A penalty of 1 stroke will be assessed to your score on that hole if the ball is moved in any way to improve the lie.
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Any member that wishes to disregard the above rules, should play for the fun, rather than competitively.
Weekly Function:
The regular day of play is Tuesday.
Registered members are guaranteed a tee time on the tee sheet.
The weekly 50/50 draw is used towards year end expenses, including the banquet. With any extra money after yearly expenses, golf prizes are purchased and a random draw is made for those attending the free banquet meal.
Cost: 1 ticket for $2.00 or 3 tickets for $5.00
** Tee Time Cancellations: Please e-mail hamptonseniormen@gmail.com as soon as possible to enable any adjustment to fill empty spaces in the tee sheet draw.
The Golf Shop has been instructed not to book or cancel tee-times for Senior Men’s Tuesday events.
The Senior Men’s scheduler will be drawing up the tee sheet for each Tuesday, so they can be contacted to book or for cancellations. If you have to cancel as late as Tuesday morning, send us an email ASAP to allow us to adjust the tee sheet as required. We monitor this e-mail continually on that morning. If you can’t send an e-mail then call the pro shop and they will notify us.
Score Cards: All completed score cards to be given to a member of the Senior Men’s Golf Committee. Committee members sit at a restaurant table after the round of golf to receive the score cards. If the scorer forgets to turn a card in, they can scan or take a picture of the card, then forward it to Brian Sleath via our common e-mail hamptonseniormen@gmail.com
Senior Member Visiting Guest Rule:
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Any registered member of our group that wishes to invite a male guest, must notify the tee sheet scheduler a few days ahead of time, so that the tee sheet can be adjusted to accommodate the guest, so they can play together.
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A guest cannot be a current member of the Hampton Golf Club.
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A visiting guest must be at least 50 years of age.
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A visiting guest can only play once during the season unless prior arrangements and approval is received from the executive.
The Hampton Senior Men’s Golf Committee 2025
Weekly Tee Sheet Scheduling. All committee members can be reached at hamptonseniormen@gmail.com
Chairman: Mike Goguen – mikegoguensrhs@gmail.com
Vice-chairman: Brian Sleath – briansleath@gmail.com
Treasurer Barry Grimmer- bggrimmer@gmail.com
Other committee members:
Stan Brown – stanbrown1973@gmail.com
Paul Cormier – pgjcormier@gmail.com
Mickey Valiquette – michaelmvaliquette@gmail.com
Chris Toole – toolechris303@gmail.com