Parents, please read the information regarding offering advice and watching your son/daughter. These rules also apply to relatives, friends or other spectators.
1. Advice and/or coaching is not allowed by parents, relatives or spectators during competition. This includes any conversation with the player that could influence his/her play, club selection or how to perform a stroke. If it's deemed by the FWJGA officials that this rule is not being followed, the player is subject to being penalized or being disqualified. Encouragement is OK, but not advice.
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Parents, relatives or other spectators can't serve as caddies, which aren't allowed.
3, Renting a cart to follow players is at the discretion of the participating courses. The FWJGA will try to alert parents in advance of those courses that will not be renting carts.
4. Carts are for only two people. Players and spectators are not permitted to ride on the back of a golf cart.
5. Spectators, whether walking or riding a cart, should stay on cart paths. In the absence of cart paths, spectators should stay in the roughs to watch the players. Always keep enough distance from players to avoid the temptation of offering advice.
6. Spectators can help search and locate golf balls.
7, Parents are allowed to carry drinks, ice, food, first-aid supplies, medicine, umbrellas, etc., for their son/daughter. However, when supplying these, parents must avoid offering advice.
8. Parents or other spectators are not allowed to give rulings or help keep score. Players should settle all rules and scoring disputes. If there is a question about a rule and a FWJGA official is not present, a player should play two balls and have the question settled upon completion of play.
9. If a parent or spectator repeatedly violates the above rules, he/she might be asked to leave the course and wait in the clubhouse for son/daughter to finish play.
10. All cell phones or similar devices should be turned off while following the players.
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