USIAA Varsity Golf Rules:
Scholarship and Roster Rules:
- All programs can only have a max of 12 players during the regular season; this limit is lifted to 122 total players for preseason tryouts only.
- All programs can choose whether to allow athletic scholarships or not; start-up programs are given a max of 5 years to decide whether or not to provide athletic scholarships to players.
- All D1 scholarship programs can only have a max of 6 total scholarships, and a max of 3 full scholarship players.
- All D2 scholarship programs can only have a max of 5.4 total scholarships, and a max of 2 full scholarship players.
- All D3 scholarship programs can only have a max of 5 total scholarship players.
- All D4 scholarship programs can only have a max of 8 total scholarships, and a max of 4 full scholarship players.
- Dual Meets:
a) 4 points for a win
b) 2 points for a draw
c) 0 points for a loss
d) 1 "bonus" point for losing by 7 points or less. - Invitationals:
a) 5 points for 1st place.
b) 4 points for 2nd place.
c) 3 points for 3rd place.
d) 2 points for 4th place.
e) 1 point for 5th place.
f) 0 points for 6th place or worse.
- All programs play a 10-invitational & 4 dual meet season (may only host 1 of each) with a winter break in between:
a) Fall season = beginning on the first Friday of September and ending on the last Sunday of October.
b) Spring season = beginning on the first Friday of February and ending on third Sunday of April. - Players are allowed to wear shorts & use push carts during their rounds.
- Each dual meet is 2 days (i.e. either Saturday-Sunday or Tuesday-Wednesday) of 18 holes each day (i.e. 36 total holes).
- Only 2 teams, or 24 total players, will compete.
- Shotgun starts will be used; however, since there are only 6 total pairs of 4 players each, all dual meets will start on the front 9.
- 1 point is awarded for each hole.
- Fall season = all dual meets are four-ball:
a) Two teams of 2 players each competing directly against each other.
b) All 4 golfers play their own balls throughout the round (rather than alternating shots)
c) Each hole is won by the team whose member has the lowest score. - Spring season = all dual meets are Scotch foursomes:
a) Golfers compete in teams of two, using only one ball per team, and taking alternate shots until the hole is completed.
b) Both players tee off on every hole. The better ball is chosen and alternate strokes are then played to complete the hole
- Each tournament/invitational is 3 days (i.e. Friday-Sunday) of 18 holes each day (i.e. 54 total holes).
- The minimum amount of players is 72 ( or 6 teams; in which case, shotgun starts may be used); however the maximum amount of players is 156 (or 13 teams; in which case, all players must start on two different holes, usually #1 & #10, at staggered tee times to avoid overlap as much as possible like the PGA Tour).
- All tournaments/invitationals are "stoke play" (i.e. the player with the lowest overall score wins the tournament)
- Team scores are determined by summing the top 7 individual finishing places on each team.
- Players that win a tournament are guaranteed a chance to enter the playoffs as an independent if their teams fails to make it.
- The USIAA Regionals & Championships are a team & individual stroke play tournaments beginning on the second week after the regular season ends:
a) The top 7 players from the 16 schools from each region in addition to the top 44 independent players from teams that didn't make the playoffs (for a total of 156 total players) will compete in the regionals.
b) The top 7 players from the 4 schools from each region (i.e. 16 total teams) in addition to the top 11 independent players from each region (i.e. 44 players) from teams that didn't make the nationals (for a total of 156 total players) will compete in the nationals.
USIAA JV Golf Rules:
Scholarship & Roster Rules:
- All JV teams can only have a max of 12 players separate from the varsity team.
- All athletes must play in at least 1 invitational per season.
- All programs play an 8-invitational & 2 dual meet season (may only host 1 of each) beginning on the second Saturday of September and ending on third Sunday of April with a winter break in between:
a) Fall season = beginning on the second Friday of September and ending on the last Sunday of October.
b) Spring season = beginning on the second Friday of February and ending on third Sunday of April.
c) This must be extended to 9 tournaments/invitationals for the military academies & senior military colleges that have a golf team. - Each tournament/invitational is 2 days (i.e. either Saturday-Sunday or Tuesday-Wednesday) of 18 holes each day (i.e. 36 total holes). otherwise, the format for both dual meets & tournaments/invitationals is the same.
- The JV team with the best record in each state at the end of the JV season will automatically be crowned the JV state champion.