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LOCAL RULES
Revised Feb 2007
1. SIGNING IN
No player, whether member or visitor should play the course without first having
signed in at the Pro-shop and obtained a tee-time.
2. SPEED OF PLAY
All games should keep up with the game IN FRONT and, if they lose more than a fairway,
should call any following game through at the earliest opportunity.
3. LOST BALLS
In all competitions after five minutes looking for a lost ball a player MUST continue play or
withdraw from the hole or competition. Long before this any waiting players should be
called through in accordance with rule 2 above.
4. PITCHMARKS AND DIVOTS
It is a condition of play on this course that all players replace their divots and repair their
pitch marks. Any player not complying with this condition may be required to leave the
course.
5. RAKES
After raking bunkers players should leave the rake IN THE BUNKER.
6. FIXED SPRINKLER HEADS Rule 24-2
All fixed sprinkler heads are immovable obstructions and relief from interference by them
may be obtained under Rule 24-2. In addition, if such an obstruction on or within two clubs
length of the putting green being played intervenes on the line of play between the ball and
the hole, the player may obtain relief without penalty under the same rule.
7. STONES IN BUNKERS
Stones in bunkers are movable obstructions and may be removed without penalty
(Rule 24-1). Elsewhere, stones are “loose impediments”.
8. GROUND UNDER REPAIR Rule 25-1b Play is prohibited from all areas of “Ground
under Repair”. If a player’s ball lies in an area so marked or if such an area interferes
with the player’s stance or the area of his intended swing, the player MUST take full
relief.
9. BUNKERS
Any bunkers which are marked as “Ground under Repair” are to be regarded as
“Through the Green” and relief should be taken at the nearest point of relief outside the
bunker.
10. STEPS IN BUNKERS
Steps in bunkers are to be regarded as immovable obstructions. If the steps interfere
with a player’s stance or the area of his intended swing, the ball may be lifted without
penalty and dropped within the bunker in accordance with Rule 24-2b (ii). The ball may
be cleaned when so lifted. If it is not possible to drop within the bunker no nearer the
hole, the ball may be dropped outside the bunker under penalty of one stroke, keeping
the point where the ball lay directly between the hole and the spot on which the ball is
dropped with no limit to how far behind the bunker the ball may be dropped.
11. BUNKER FACES
Some bunkers have faces consisting of stacked turf. Such faces are to be regarded as
closely mown areas and NOT part of the bunker. Any ball embedded in the turf may
therefore be lifted and dropped at the nearest point outside the bunker without penalty.
12. PREFERRED LIES
When preferred lies are in operation, a ball lying on any “closely mown area”
(meaning grass at fairway height) through the green may, without penalty, be moved,
or may be lifted, cleaned and placed (or teed if teeing up applies) within six inches of
where it originally lay but not nearer the hole. After the ball has been so moved or
placed it is in play.
13. OUT OF BOUNDS Rule 27-1
(a) Beyond any wall or fence bounding the course.
(b) Beyond any line of white stakes.
(c) Beyond any line of blue stakes around the Club House (the line should
be taken between the posts and not the chain link fencing, which is to be classified
as a movable obstruction.
(d) The flower beds immediately outside the club house behind the 9th green.
(e) When playing the 9th or 18th holes, on or beyond the path leading from the 1st tee past
the conservatory to the 10th tee past the hotel.
14. ROADS AND PATHS
All man-made roads, paths and steps within bounds should be regarded as
“immovable instructions”. This includes the path at the back of the 1st. green.
Relief may be taken in accordance with Rule 24-2b
15. VIEWFINDERS
are allowed on the course.
16. STAKES
All stakes marking ground under repair, water hazards, distance markers, etc. are
immovable obstructions and relief may be taken in accordance with Rule 24 –2b
except when the ball is in a water hazard. OUT OF BOUNDS stakes and fences
are deemed to be fixed and RELIEF CANNOT BE TAKEN.
17. FLOWER BEDS
All flower beds (providing they are in bounds) should be treated as ground under
repair and relief taken in accordance with Rule 8.
18. TEMPORARY GREENS
When playing on normal greens, all temporary greens should be regarded as ground
under repair and relief taken in accordance with Local Rule 8. When playing temporary
greens normal greens are to be treated as GUR and relief taken in accordance with Local
Rule 8.
19. GROUND UNDER REPAIR Rule25-1b
The practice putting green on the left side of 1st. tee should be treated as g.u.r.
(ball dropped without penalty off green no nearer the hole, nearest point of relief.)
20. STAKED TREES
A tree is classed as staked if it:-
(a) has a FULL stake securing it.
(b) is less than two club lengths in height.
If such a tree interferes with a player's stance or the area of his intended swing
the ball must be lifted without penalty and dropped in accordance with the
procedure described in Rule 24-2b.
21. EXCEPTIONS TO STAKED TREE RULE
A player may NOT obtain relief under this Local Rule if:
a) It is clearly unreasonable for him to play a stroke because of
interference by anything other than a tree.
b) Interference by such a tree would occur only through the use of an
unnecessarily abnormal stance, swing or direction of play.
22. ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA
The Wood behind the ditch on the right of the fairway on the 5th hole has been defined
as a lateral water hazard. This area has been deemed to be an Environmentally Sensitive
Area and play is prohibited from within this area. (Rule 26- note 2)
23. OBSTRUCTIONS Rule 24
An “obstruction” is anything artificial, including the artificial surfaces and sides of roads
and paths and manufactured ice,
Except:
(a) Objects defining Out of Bounds, such as walls, fences, stakes and railings.
(b) Any part of an immovable artificial object which is out of bounds
(c) The following, which are deemed to be immovable obstructions:
All stakes defining the limits of water hazards.
All stakes marking buggy routes and directions to next green/tee
Watering points at the foot of trees.
Seed boxes as well as benches on the tee.
24. HAZARDS
All sleepers used to construct hazards are defined as to be part of the hazard as are any
stakes defining the limits of the hazard. A ball touching or crossing any line of these is
defined as being in the hazard. Bridges over water hazards within the margin of the
hazard when extended upwards are obstructions within the hazard; relief under penalty
of one stroke may be taken under Rule 26-1
or
The ball may be played as it lies, and as the bridge is an obstruction and since an
obstruction in a water hazard, is not ground in the hazard, the club may be grounded
prior to address or in the backward movement of the stroke.
NOTE: IF A BALL IS IN A WATER HAZARD (INCLUDING A LATERAL WATER HAZARD)
THE PLAYER IS NOT ENTITLED TO RELIEF WITHOUT PENALTY FROM
INTERFERENCE BY AN IMMOVABLE OBSTRUCTION. THE PLAYER SHALL
PLAY THE BALL AS IT LIES OR PROCEED UNDER RULE 26-1
PENALTY FOR BREACH OF ANY LOCAL RULE
MATCH PLAY – LOSS OF HOLE
STROKE PLAY – TWO STROKE PENALTY
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