Exemplary conduct on the golf course is expected. For instance, trash should be disposed of properly. General golf course etiquette: divot and ball mark repair, appropriate golf car driving practices, the correct method to rake bunkers, sensitivity to animal habitat and promoting safety are all etiquette factors that encourage player courtesy and respect. Additionally, being mindful of posted rules and regulations prevents course damage and provides others the basis for a safe and enjoyable experience.

The National Golf Foundation offers guidelines that protect the game and its quality of playing conditions:

• Only a putter will be used to putt on the green. Golfers will not intentionally drop or toss a putter on the green or lean on their putters on the putting surface.

• After putting out, the golfer will not flip the ball out of the cup with their putter.

• Extreme care should be exercised when removing or replacing the flag stick so as not to damage the turf around the lip of the cup.

• Players should not step within 12" of the cup at any time after putting. Footprints on the green within this area will cause a put to roll off line and will cause severe injury to the turf and compaction.

• Players are not to pull handcarts or ride power carts across the green or into sand bunkers.

• A ball hit to the wrong green must be picked up and dropped off the wrong green to the nearest relief and played to object hole and without penalty.

• Hand pull carts, single electric hand carts, power golf cars, and maintenance equipment will stay at least 30 feet from the edge of the greens and off all teeing surfaces. Cart paths will be used at all times, where available.

• Golfers should keep the course free of debris. No person shall throw, discard, place or dispose of any garbage, refuse, cans, etc., on the golf course in any place other than a receptacle maintained for that purpose.

• Practice on the tees, fairways, and greens is prohibited at any time. Practice pitch shots to the practice putting green is not permitted.

• Players should not walk through sand bunkers. They are to walk around the sand bunker unless their ball is to be played out. Golfers should enter the sand bunker at a point closest to their ball and/or where the sand bunker is the lowest. Players should enter and leave the sand bunker with the least disturbance to the turf and sand.

• Players will not drop their bags on the putting surface or apron of the green.

• Golfers will not carry their bag across a green. They are to walk around the green.