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LJGT Regulation

What is the Latvian Junior Golf Tour?

The Latvian Junior Golf Tour (LJGT) is the highest level junior golf tour where the best and most potential junior golfers in Latvia play.

The purpose of the tour is to promote the growth of golf skills among young players, understanding of the principle of sports competition, principles of fair play, as well as to contribute to the development of golf in Latvia.

Management

The competition is organized and refereed by the Latvian Junior Golf Tour competition committee. Rules official of the tour Indra Eniņa, general secretary Emīls Auziņš.

Tour participants

Any golfer between the ages of 7 and 21 (counting full years as of January 1, 2024) with an active season HCP card can become a member of the tour. To participate in the tour, a player must register using their Golfbox profile.

Tour stages

The tour stage calendar can be found on the LGF website (www.lgf.lv) and the tour's official gazette on the LJGT website (www.juniortour.lv)

The maximum number of participants in the stage - 48 (registration confirmation on a first-hand basis). The competition committee of the tour decides on the increased number of participants in a separate stage.

Ten (10) stages will be played during the season. In four (4) stages (the so-called Major stages) out of ten, a higher number of points are won for the season overall (see the scoring table 'Tour Overall')

Major Stages:

  1. OZO, 18.06.  Tuesday, at 10:30 A.M

  2. Pärnu, WBC, 23.07. Tuesday, at 10:30 (Estonian Junior Tour stage)

  3. Jurmala, 14.08. Wednesday, at 8:00 (Latvian Junior Open 3rd day)

  4. Viesturi, 07.09. Saturday, at 10:00 ( Final )

Competition format and rules

The competition is conducted in accordance with the Rules of Golf approved by the Royal and St Andrews Golf Club, the local rules of the course and the rules of the tour. 

The tour competition takes place in 4 groups, in the overall girls and boys competition, stroke play (Stroke) and Stroke Neto:

  1. Group U10 (minimum age 7 years) (9 holes) format - Stroke;

  2. Group U14 (18 holes) format - Stroke;

  3. Group U18+ (maximum age 21 years) (18 holes) format - Stroke;

  4. Group U14 & U18+ (18 holes) format - Stroke net; the player's maximum HCP of 18 and slope index are applied.

Tee box* by age and group:

* In cases where there are no tee box places provided by the regulations, U18+ girls play from the red tee box places, while U14 boys and U18+ boys play from the yellow ones.

  1.  Caddies are only allowed in U10 groups. Caddies must not be golf professionals. Caddies are not allowed in the other groups.

  2. In order to speed up the pace of the game, players, exceeding the number of 10 strokes in a hole, record 10 strokes in the corresponding hole in the scorecard.

  3.   Ball marking is mandatory.

  4.   Spectators. Spectators are allowed on the course, outside the boundaries of the fairways and greens. Spectator contact with players is prohibited. In case of violation, the player receives a warning on the 1st time, two penalty strokes are granted on the 2nd time, and the player is disqualified on the 3rd time. Penalties may also be awarded without warning if the referee finds direct assistance to the player by a spectator.

  5. All stages played are included in the overall LJGT season standings, receiving corresponding points for the places (see the section "Overall tour standings").

  6. The tour stage is considered to have taken place if no less than 8 players have participated in it, and in foreign stages (Pärnu) no less than 6 players.

Awarding

The three best players in each group are awarded.

In the event of an equal score, the distribution of places in the Stroke standings is determined by the principle of the best Stroke score in the last 9,6,3,1 holes.

If players share places in the Stroke neto standings, the player with the lower HCP takes the higher place.

Application and draw


The stages of the tour take place on Latvian and Estonian golf courses and the calendar can be found in the official tour gazette www.juniortour.lv and on the LGF website.


Players must register for a round in the Golfbox system no later than two days before the respective round at 06:00 p.m.. After At 6:30 p.m., a draw is made, which determines players' flights and starting times, which can be viewed in the Golfbox system, respectively.

Players do not have the right to arbitrarily change their starting places.

The player has the opportunity to apply after the application deadline by writing to the tour general secretary in WhatsApp  (Emīls Auziņš +37122061022), only if there is a free space in one of the flights. Such application cannot take place later than 2 hours before the start of the stage.

The player is obliged to notify the responsible person (Emīls Auziņš +37122061022) in advance by phone or via WhatsApp for not coming to his start.

Overall rating of the tour

In the overall standings of the tour, points are counted for the place won in each stage (according to the table attached below).

In total, the 6 best tournaments of the respective player are counted in the overall ranking. Players who have played at least 6 stages and at least 1 of them outside of Riga (Reinis, Valmiera, Pärnu) qualify for the season's overall rating.

If 1.-3. the place in the season standings is divided by the same number of points, then the player with the best result in the final stage takes the higher place.

In the overall ranking of the season, the first place in the Stroke net group is awarded with the traveling Junior RTM cup.

 

Points distribution table:

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Accounting of results

The players themselves are responsible for entering the correct results into the Golfbox.dk system (with the exception of U10 players). The player receives a link for entering data in an e-mail before each stage.

 

During the tournament, Golfbox (entered by players by following the link sent in the e-mail) is taken as the official score of the game. For comparison, players of the U14 and U18+ groups manage the results in the GameBook application, where players see the tournament situation in real time, while the U10s fill in the scorecards.

After the game, the players themselves are responsible for matching the results. In case of errors or discrepancies in the result, the player receives disqualification.

The rules are subject to change without prior notice by posting them on the official tour website.

Fees

Thanks to the benevolence of the tour's supporters and the hospitality of the golf courses, the participation fee (Green fee) for the tour's stages is free on Latvian golf courses.

© 2024 Latvian Junior Golf Tour

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