Purpose:
To promote an interclub challenge shield involving all men's Aorangi Golf Clubs.

There are to be 10 challenges per year, February through to November. To be played on a monthly challenge.

Disagreements should be settled within the spirit and fellowship of golf rather than by reference to the Aorangi Match Committee.  The aim is to play golf and the challenge be played every month with challenger and defender making sporting effort to ensure that challenges are played on days agreed with the teams submitted.

The aim is to promote club spirit.

To give clubs a chance to challenge clubs for the shield as a club team.

Challenging clubs are encouraged to send supporters who will play with defending club members on day of challenge. Club are encouraged to waiver or have reduced green fees for the supporters.

Rules:

1. The St Andrews Shield shall be competed for between golf clubs affiliated to the Aorangi Association.

2. The Association shall have full and complete control of the competition and its rulings and decisions shall be conclusive and binding. "The Association" means the Aorangi Association and/or its Board and its permanent Sub Committee for this time being. Aorangi Golf is empowered to alter, add to, rescind or otherwise amend these rules and conditions from time to time.

3. Challenges, in writing to be made directly to Aorangi Golf and referred to the Match Committee.

4. The Challenger and the holder to set a mutually agreed date for the challenge.

5. If a match is rained out then the match should be played as soon as possible in the same month.  If this can't practically be arranged then the Challenge shall be played in the next month.

6. In the event of a course closure the challenge can be played at a course mutually agreed by the holder and the challenger.  Any disputes should be referred in the first instance to the convenor of the match committee.

7. When the challenger wins the shield, then that club (as the holder) shall take over all challenges in the order that Aorangi Golf has receive them.

8. The holder shall play one challenge a month, except in the months of December and January.

9. Any failure by the holder or the challenger to meet the other, or for either to comply with the Rules and Conditions, shall be referred immediately to Aorangi Golf, each party giving written versions of the circumstances.

Challenge matches shall be played as follows:

1. Between teams representing the Challenger and the Holder, each team consisting of 6 amateur full financial members of the clubs concerned.  Matches will be played in three groups of four.

2. Each member of each team shall meet his opponent in match play on current handicap. Play shall be over 18 holes only, each individual match being determined as a win, loss or draw.

3. The Holder shall retain the Shield unless the Challenger's team has more individual wins than losses against the Holder.

4. In every match the Rules of the Royal and Ancient Rules Ltd shall be played and observed.

5. Challengers must declare team with handicaps to the holder 10 days prior to challenge date.

6. Challengers cannot swap players once they have been submitted except in exceptional circumstances e.g. family death, broken bones.

7. Players comprising each team shall be "seeded" with the lowest handicapped player as No 1 and the highest as No 6. In the event of identical handicaps, the team captain shall decide the playing order. The maximum handicap index is not to be over 36.3 per player.

8. All disputes and questions shall be referred (in writing) to the Association for determination.

9. Any club winning a St Andrews Shield Challenge match shall have its name engraved on the shield once for each successful challenge.

10. St Andrews Golf Club will be the first holder of the Shield.

11. No green fees shall be payable for the team members but supporters are liable for green fees.  It is suggested that this should be at a discounted rate.

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Those clubs who are not on this list will be added to the list of future challengers as their entry is received by the Association's Secretary at secretary@aorangigolf.org.nz  The event is open to any club affiliated to the Aorangi Golf Association.

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