Full Swing Golf has undertaken an internal software development effort, aimed at creating an Online Tournament golf system for Full Swing Golf Simulators. This system allows for real time competition between golfers in a variety of locations.

This document records the official rules for the Online Tournament competition.
 

Each season you'll be able to play tournaments at your local Full Swing Golf Simulator location. The tournament will have a start and end date and time. All tournaments times in the website are (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time. You'll have to complete your round between the tournament start and end date times. Scores from your tournament play will be automatically uploaded to this website, where live leaderboard results will be available. Prizes are awarded according to each tournaments description.

You can sign up for tournaments or view the results from anywhere with Internet access. For those without Internet access, many Full Swing Golf Simulator locations have a terminal dedicated to this website.

Test your golf skills and have fun competing in the Full Swing Golf Indoor Golf Club!

2.2 Length of Season
 
The Full Swing Golf Online Tournament season continues year round; tournaments will be offered all year long. The official start of the season is in the fall, but players can begin their 12-month memberships at any time.

2.4 Deadlines
 
The deadline to enter a tournament is 24 hours before the first official round of competition will be accepted. On the tournament schedule web page, the �enter� request will stay active until this deadline. Once this deadline has passed, the tournament will show as 'closed' if you have not entered or 'entered' if you successfully completed your application.

2.8 Standings

The final standings for a tournament will be displayed immediately upon conclusion of the allowed playing deadline. The results will not become official for 24 hours, to allow time for any scoring issues to be resolved. After 24 hours, the standings are final and competitors are notified of their position (and possible prizes) via email. Be sure to check your email for results.

The final standings for all tournaments played will be stored on the Full Swing Golf Indoor Golf Club website.

Additional logs and other auditing options are available upon request to ensure the transparency and security of our scoring system.

2.9 Rub of the green

The Full Swing Golf Simulator uses technology to recreate the game of golf. When the simulator is used in an Online Tournament, it is a game of skill. However, just as in real golf, there are elements of the technology and game that cannot be fully controlled. USGA rule 19-1 accommodates any accidental influence on the ball by an outside agency, and whether the ball is influenced in real life or in the simulation, this rule still applies. If a ball in motion is accidentally deflected or stopped by any outside agency, it is a rub of the green, there is no penalty and the ball must be played as it lies except:

a. If a ball in motion after a stroke other than on the putting green comes to rest in or on any moving or animate outside agency, the player must, through the green or in a hazard, drop the ball, or on the putting green place the ball, as near as possible to the spot where the outside agency was when the ball came to rest in or on it, and

b. If a ball in motion after a stroke on the putting green is deflected or stopped by, or comes to rest in or on, any moving or animate outside agency except a worm or an insect, the stroke is canceled. The ball must be replaced and the stroke replayed. If the ball is not immediately recoverable, another ball may be substituted.

3. Disclaimer

Full Swing Golf, Inc. is governed by U.S. law. By entering an Online Tournament, participants release Full Swing Golf, it's subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, directors, officers, employees and agents from any and all liability for injuries, losses or damages of any kind caused by playing indoor golf or by any awarded prize or resulting from acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any prize. Acceptance of a prize constitutes permission (except where prohibited by law) to use the winner's name, city, state and likeness in conjunction with any promotion in connection to Full Swing Golf without further compensation to the winner. Prizes are non-transferable. No substitution of prizes or cash redemptions is permitted by winners. Other restrictions may apply.

In the event a tournament scoring is compromised by computer viruses, bugs or other causes beyond the control of the sponsor that corrupts the administration, security or proper play of a tournament, Full Swing Golf reserves the right to cancel and-or re-scheduled a tournament. No responsibility is assumed for incorrect capture of entry information including, but not limited to: malfunctions, human error, lost/delayed/garbled data transmission, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, failures of any telephone line or network, computer equipment, software or any combination thereof. In the event a tournament scoring is compromised or becomes technically corrupted in any way electronically or otherwise, Full Swing Golf reserves the right to cancel and/or re-schedule a tournament.

In the event of a tournament re-scheduling or cancellation, players are entitled to have their tournament fees refunded to them.

Anyone over 13 years of age may become a member and participate in the Full Swing Golf Indoor Golf Club. Any member is eligible to win a prize according to Full Swing Golf's scoring system except for employees of Full Swing Golf, or said employees immediate relatives, spouses and in-laws, as well as Full Swing Golf's distributors, associates and their immediate relatives. Also, in the event of sponsored tournaments, no owner or employee of any sponsor will be eligible to win prizes nor may their immediate relatives. In the event that a prize winner is found ineligible for the prize, for any of the above mentioned reasons, the prizes will go to the next eligible player according to the tournament leaderboard and these rules.