Flag Tourney
Friday July 4, 2025
Registration Opens Tuesday June 20 at 9:00 AM, get your foursome and register for the Flag Tournament.
REGISTRATION OPENS – June 20, 2025 at 10:00am
REGISTRATION CLOSES – July 4, 2025 at 9:00an
Members can register by contacting the Pro Shop at (207)998-6002 or by clicking the link below and registering online through the Poland Spring Golf Genius portal.
REGISTRATION LINK – Flag Day Registration
TEE TIMES – Member Times
ENTRY FEE – $25.00 per player
Flag Tourney features individual, 18 hole, stroke play format in which golfers begin the round of golf with an allotment of strokes, then play until those strokes run out. Flags are given to competitors before the round. The golfers stick those flags in the ground at the point from which their ball comes to rest on their final shot allotted. The golfer who stakes his flag the farthest around the course is the winner.
Here’s an example: Let’s say your allotment is 75 strokes. You play the golf course until you hit your 75th shot, which, let’s say, comes to rest on the 16th fairway. That’s where you plant your flag, on the place your ball came to rest on your final stroke. If no other player’s flag is planted beyond yours (say, on the 16th green or 17th tee box) you are the winner.
DETERMINING STROKE ALLOTMENT – Full handicap (100%) will determine the stroke allotment. Using full handicaps, a golfer playing Poland Spring, a par-71 golf course and who has a course handicap of 14, for example, receives 85 strokes (71 for the course’s par rating plus 14 for the golfer’s handicap) as his tournament stroke allotment.
Using full handicaps often means that several golfers will reach the end of 18 holes with strokes left to use. In that event, all players with strokes remaining would go back to the No. 1 hole and keep playing until the stroke allotment is reached.
ELIGIBILTY – Flag Tourney is open to all Poland Spring Members with active GHIN handicap.
PURSE – The golfer who stakes his flag the farthest around the course is the winner. Winners will be awarded prize money, determined by finishing position, in the form of Pro Shop Credit. All Pro Shop Credit must be used by October 15th. .
RULES OF GOLF – All play will be governed by The Rules of Golf as approved by the USGA, except as modified by Local Rules. The Rules Committee will have the final authority on all rulings. The competition is deemed to be closed when the trophy is awarded to the champion.
The Tournament Committee/Rules Committee reserves the right to alter any of the conditions, provisions, and/or schedules herein. The decision of the Tournament Committee/Rules Committee in any matter is final.
Maine Golf Play Days are fun and competitive one-day events that give members the chance to play at golf courses all around the state of Maine. From April to October, we offer men’s and women’s one-day tournaments open to players of all abilities. All players that belong to a Maine Golf member club and have an active Handicap Index® are eligible to play in these fun events.
While these tournaments are more laid back and informal than our championship events, by no means are they without fun and competition! Play Days take place all across the state and have varied formats throughout the season to keep things interesting from spring to fall.
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Vision and legacy of the Gerber’s
“In 1977, brothers Saul and Phil Gerber were both members of the Maine Seniors. The Maine Seniors was the only senior golf association in the state and membership was limited to their member courses of Portland, Augusta, York and Martindale. The outside waiting list was ten years. They decided to do something about it so that their seniors friends from Riverside, Purpoodock and other courses in southern Maine would be able to play senior tournaments. They enlisted the help of Purpoodock members Joe Alberti and Buzzer Feeney and starter to sign up seniors from surrounding courses.
The first year courses were Riverside, Purpoodock, Willowdale, Biddeford-Saco, Cape Arundel, Webhannet, Gorham and York. The golf courses were almost empty on Tuesday’s and they welcomed the additional play. A light lunch was included with golf and forty-five years later the association and good times on the links still exist.
Saul passed away in 1993 and his son John assisted his uncle Phil in continuing to organize the tournaments. With the passing of Phil in 1996, John expanded the membership and added other golf courses in southern Maine and has run the tournaments for the past twenty-eight years.
I think, with my father’s vision, thousands of golfers, both amateur and professional, have enjoyed senior golf through the years.”
John Gerber, 2021