ROOSTER RUN SENIOR MEN'S GOLF CLUB LOCAL RULES SUMMER RULES: Play the ball as it lies and the course as you find it. Exception: if a ball lies in or on a crack in the earth, relief is allowed "through the green" without penalty. WINTER RULES/PREFFERED LIES: A ball lying "through the green" on the hole being played may be lifted and cleaned without penalty and placed within 6 inches of where it originally lay, no nearer the hole, and so as to preserve as nearly a possible the stance required to play the ball from the original lie. PROVISIONAL BALL OVER WATER HAZARD: USGA RULES OF GOLF. Appendix 1.4 Water Hazards, states as follows: "Permitting play of a provisional for a for a ball which may be in a water hazard of such character that it would be impracticable to determine whether the ball is in the hazard or to do so would unduly delay play. In such a case, if a provisional ball is played and the original ball is in a water hazard, the player may play the original ball as it lies or contimue with the provisional ball in play, but he may not proceed under RULE 26-1." This local rule may be used on all water hazard holes. RULE 16-1 explains the various drop options available under penalty of one stroke. EMBEDDED BALL: "Through the green" A ball embedded in its own pitch-mark may be lifted, cleaned and dropped as near as possible to the original lie. LOCAL RULES AND REGULATIONS: As stipulated on the official ROOSTER RUN SCORE CARD. USGA RULES APPLY IN ALL OTHER CASES, (7/2/09) |