Dress Code

We recognise that Pauanui Golf Club is a beach resort course and a relaxed style of dress should be permitted. As a result, we only require that:

·         On Club Days and Competition Days, players wear recognised golf      attire, including appropriate shoes.

·         On other days, a reasonable level of decorum is followed by players in their choice of apparel.

·          Bare feet are not allowed, as they are detrimental to the Greens  and potentially can be injured.

The Club sets the dress code required for the Club facilities, such as the Lounge and has full and final authority to determine what is acceptable.

Slow Play

Pauanui is a relaxed environment, and most of the time our objective is to have fun and enjoy ourselves. But it is also important to ensure we complete our games in a reasonable time, and more particularly, not to hold up our fellow partners and others on the course. Globally, the biggest bugbear in golf, is slow play. So if there is an empty hole in front and people playing behind and having to wait for us to move on, then we are going too slow. In this case we either call up those behind and have them play through, or we speed up our play.

There are a number of recognised techniques to speeding up our play:

·         Walk faster between shots

·         While waiting for your partner to prepare to play fairway shots, move up the side of the fairway towards your ball, stopping and watching your partner’s play

·         While waiting to play your shot, begin your preparation – distance calculation, club selection, cleaning ball, practice swing, so you are ready to hit immediately when it is your turn

·         Remember, you only have 3 minutes under the Rules of Golf, to look for a “lost” ball

·         When finished on the green, don’t stop to write up the score, but immediately go to the next tee box and write the score up then.

Divots and Pitch Marks

·         Please replace divots on the fairway. If you take a chunk of fairway with your iron or wood, walk forward, pick up as much of the divot you can find, replace it in the hole and press it down with your foot.

 ·         On the tee boxes, please fill in your divot holes with sand from the sand boxes provided. Please add sand to other divot holes while you are there.

·         Always carry a Pitch Repairer on the green and repair pitch marks. Pull the sides of the pitch mark together, rather than lifting up the centre. Please look around the green and repair other pitch marks while waiting for others to putt out.

Greenkeepers/Volunteers

·         Please give way to workers on the course, they have right-of-way. Do not hit up while they are in range

·         Respect markings on the course, such as GUR signs (compulsory lift off)

Respect Others

·         Remember, we are not professional golfers playing for $1million a round. We are here to have fun, so follow the rules, but be polite, respect each other and don’t take life too seriously

·         Treat the Golf Shop staff with courtesy, remember they have multiple jobs to do at the same time