Local Rules
Dropping Zones
Dropping Zones:
The local rules prohibit playing from cultivated flower beds. Players must treat these areas as GUR.
As a correct drop under the rules may leave players in an unfair position, e.g on the 12Th tee box, or in the trees etc.,
the following new Drop Zones have been established.
1. For the flower bed between the 5Th and 7Th Green. (one drop zone each side)
2. For the flower bed to the left of the 16Th Green backing onto the 17th tee box.
3. For the flowerbed on the 11th hole short/right of green.
Players must take relief from the flower bed but the use of the drop zones is optional.
When dropping in a drop zone the ball must first strike the ground within the drop zone, it may roll outside the
drop zone provided it does not roll more than 2 club lengths from the point where it first touched the ground
after the drop.
If the white line defining the area is not visible a player may drop anywhere within 1 club length of the stake.
The same applies to the two existing drop zone for a ball that is in the water hazard around the 4th green.
The men’s Golf Committee approved the following Local Rule
effective immediately.
This is being done is an attempt to speed up play.
LOCAL RULE
For all play on the course, a player may obtain distance information by using a
device that measures distance only. However, if, during a stipulated round, a
player uses a distance measuring device that is designed to gauge or measure
other conditions that might affect his play (e.g., gradient, wind-speed,
temperature, etc.), the player is in breach of Rule 14-3, for which the penalty is
disqualification, regardless of whether any such additional functions are
actually used.
MAY 2009
Temporary Local Rule
| Integral part of course. | |||||||
| The finely chopped mulch material used as ground cover in spinnies and around | |||||||
| the base of trees and elsewhere on the course is an integral part of the course | |||||||
| NO RELIEF is available from this material. | |||||||
| There may, however, be relief because of some other situation | |||||||
| (e.g. STAKED TREE, Flowerbed etc) | |||||||
LOCAL RULES
LOCAL RULES DEC 2008
1.OUT OF BOUNDS (RULE 27)
(A) In or over boundary ditches and fences.
(B) The clubhouse enclosure, practice green area as far as white stakes, barn enclosure and driveway.
(C) As defined by white stakes on right-hand side of 1St, 2Nd , 3Rd, 6Th, 16Th, 17Th and 18Th fairways, left of 7Th and 8Th fairway and around the 4Th green.
2. IMMOVABLE OBSTRUCTIONS;
All artificial or man-made objects on the course which cannot be moved without undue effort, including electricity pylons, electricity poles and their support cables, artificial pathways, roads, seats, wooden sleepers and second holes on greens are immovable obstructions. Rule (24-2b) applies.
You may drop within one club length of nearest point of relief no nearer the hole (no penalty). Except if the immovable obstruction is in a water hazard (no relief).
NB. Second holes on greens are those with artificial covers (used as spare holes or covered holes for drainage purposes). There is no relief from replaced natural hole plugs, but they may be repaired.
3. PYLONS / WIRES
If a ball strikes a power line, or an electricity pole, or its supports, or a pylon, the player must disregard that stroke, abandon the ball and play another ball, without penalty, as nearly as possible at the spot from which the original ball was played, in accordance with Rule (20-5).
4.STONES IN BUNKERS
Stones in bunkers are movable obstructions. Rule (24-1) applies.
5. FLOWER BEDS and SHUBBERIES.
All cultivated flowerbeds and shrubberies, through the green (i.e. not in a Hazard), except for gorse plantations, are to be treated as G.U.R. Relief must be taken. Drop in accordance with Rule (25).
There is no relief from flowerbeds located in hazards and you may not play the ball as it lies in such flowerbeds.
6. INTEGRAL PART OF COURSE ( no relief)
Plastic Bark protection on trees and all Gorse, (except bushes contained within areas marked as GUR) is an integral part of the course, there is no relief.
If a player finds and identifies his ball in a gorse bush, the player may play the ball as it lies or declare it unplayable and proceed under Rule (28) (BALL UNPLAYABLE). If the player cannot find and identify his ball within 5 minutes the players ball is lost and he must proceed under Rule (27-1) (BALL LOST).
To claim relief from an obstruction or staked tree in gorse a player must be able to take a stance and demonstrate the stroke the player would have made had the obstruction not been there.
7. STAKED TREES.
If such a tree or its stakes interferes with the player’s stance or the area of his intended swing, the ball must be lifted and dropped in accordance with the procedure described in Rule (24-2b).
You may drop within one club length of nearest point of relief no nearer the hole (no penalty).
8. FIXED SPRINKLER HEADS AND SECOND HOLES ON GREENS
All fixed sprinkler heads and second holes on greens are immovable obstructions and relief from interference by them may be obtained under Rule (24-2). In addition, if a ball lies off the putting green but not in a hazard and such an obstruction on or within two club-lengths of the putting green and within two club-lengths of the ball intervenes on the line of play between the ball and the hole, the player may take relief as follows:
The ball shall be lifted and dropped at the nearest point to where the ball lay which (a) is not nearer the hole, (b) avoids such intervention and (c) is not in a hazard or on a putting green. The ball may be cleaned when so lifted.
9. GROUND UNDER REPAIR.
In GUR the ball may be played as it lies except when prohibited by local rule.
There is no relief from tractor marks, or from bare ground around trees or otherwise, unless marked
.
10. LAKE ON RIGHT OF 4Th FAIRWAY
If a player thinks that his/her ball played in the direction of this lake may be in the lake but is certainly not OOB or lost outside the lake, it is permitted to play a ball provisionally under any option of Rule 26.1.
i.e. before looking for the original ball, a different ball may be put into play provisionally, as if the original ball is in the hazard,. If the original ball is not found the player must continue with the provisional ball. If the original ball is found in the hazard the player may play it as it lies or abandon it and play the provisional ball. It the original ball is found outside the hazard the player must continue with the original ball.
GENERAL EXCEPTION: A player may not obtain relief under a local rule if (a) it is clearly unreasonable for him to play a stroke because of interference by anything other than the condition stated in the local rule or (b) interference by the stated condition would occur only through use of an unnecessarily abnormal stance or direction of play.
PENALTY FOR BREACH OF LOCAL RULE:
Match play - Loss of hole; Stroke play - Two strokes.