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2. Don’t talk, move or stand near a player about to take a stroke.
Be careful. Before making a stroke or a practice swing, make sure you will not hit another player with your club.
Make sure the group in front of you is out of the way.
Watch out for other players in your group.
ETIQUETTE

3. COURSE CARE Leave the course in better condition than you find it:
Replace all divots
Repair all ball marks (you are responsible for your last hole)
Rake all bunkers
Pick up trash
Be careful with the flagstick
Be careful with your golf bags and carts
Always act like young ladies and gentlemen
COURSE CARE

4. PACE OF PLAY Play READY Golf
Walk to your golf ball and get ready to hit
Know what club you’re going to hit
Line up your putt & finish from close range
Know your yardage
PACE OF PLAY

5. Players are required to keep score for another player in their group
Players are required to keep score for another player in their group. Nobody keeps their own scorecard.
It is your responsibility to know what that player made on each hole.
You will be required to sign 2 scorecards before turning it in.
SCORECARDS

6. 6-6. Scoring in Stroke Play
Score cards are required for stroke play only
A score card should be provided for each individual player
Player responsible for each hole score
Player must sign and ensure marker has signed card
No alterations after card is returned to Committee
Committee responsible for addition and handicap calculation

7. PLAYER’S RESPONSIBILITIES
RULES

8. Within 5 Minutes- 2 strokes
6-3. Time of Starting and Groups
a. TIME OF STARTING
The player shall start at the time laid down by the Committee.
PENALTY
Within 5 Minutes- 2 strokes
After 5 Minutes- DQ

9. 4-4. Maximum of 14 Clubs Count your clubs.
The player shall start a stipulated round with not more than fourteen clubs (Rule 4-4a).
Penalty: 2 strokes
Maximum of 4 strokes
Player counting clubs, 1st tee.

10. 6-5. Playing Proper Ball Put an identification mark on your ball.
If you can’t identify it as yours, it’s lost (Rule 27).

11. ABNORMAL GROUND CONDITIONS
NON PENALTY RELIEF
LOOSE IMPEDIMENTS
OBSTRUCITONS
ABNORMAL GROUND CONDITIONS
RULE 23, 24 & 25

12. NEAREST POINT OF RELIEF
Non Penalty Relief- Key Words
LIE
STANCE
AREA OF INTENDED SWING
NEAREST POINT OF RELIEF

13. Loose Impediments are NATURAL objects.

14. LOOSE IMPEDIMENTS They can be moved except when the ball &
loose impediment lie in or touch the same hazard.

15. OBSTRUCTIONS Obstructions are ARTIFICIAL (man-made) objects.
There are two types of obstructions:
--MOVABLE
--IMMOVABLE

16. OBSTRUCTIONS
You do not get relief from anything that defines Out of Bounds.
Never move a white OB stake.

17. You may move a movable obstruction anywhere on the golf course
MOVABLE OBSTRUCTIONS
You may move a movable obstruction anywhere on the golf course

18. Immovable Obstructions (Bunker)
If a player takes relief for an immovable obstruction in a bunker, the player is entitled to relief, but must drop the ball in the bunker.

19. Immovable Obstructions (Water Hazard)
Except when the ball is in a water hazard…a player may take relief…

20. 24-2. Immovable Obstruction
A player may take free relief from an immovable obstruction anywhere except a water hazard.
When taking relief, the player must drop a ball within one club length of his Nearest Point of Relief

21. Nearest Point of Relief
Point closest to the players ball
Not closer to the hole
Gives relief from the lie, stance AND area of intended swing
Not in a hazard or on the green
It is the spot where the clubhead touches the ground.

22. 24-2. Immovable Obstruction
b. RELIEF
The nearest point of relief is almost always a different spot for a left handed player than for a right handed player

23. Abnormal Ground Conditions
Ground Under Repair
Burrowing Animal Hole
Casual Water
Drop within one club length of the Nearest Point of Relief

24. GROUND UNDER REPAIR
One club length
Nearest Point of Relief

25. 1. TEMPORARY
CASUAL WATER
2. VISIBLE

26. BURROWING ANIMAL HOLE
“…hole, cast or runway on the course made by a burrowing animal, a reptile or a bird”
“an animal (other than a worm, insect or the like) that makes a hole for habitation or shelter, such as a rabbit, mole, groundhog, gopher or salamander.”

27. Rule 12-2. Identifying Ball
If a player is not sure if a ball is his, he may lift the ball, without penalty, in order to make sure it is.
Announce his intention.
Mark the ball.
Lift the ball.
Replace the ball in the same lie.
He must give his opponent, marker or fellow-competitor an opportunity to observe the lifting and replacement

28. ball rolls and comes to rest:
7 SITUATIONS THAT REQUIRE A RE-DROP
ball rolls and comes to rest:
5. with interference from the condition relief was taken
1. in a hazard
2. out of a hazard
6. nearer the hole
3. on the green
7. more than 2 club-lengths from where it first struck a part of the course
4. out of bounds
DROPPING &
REDROPPING

29. NEAREST POINT OF RELIEF

31. BALL LOST OR OUT OF BOUNDS; PROVISIONAL
PENALTY RELIEF
WATER HAZARDS
BALL LOST OR OUT OF BOUNDS; PROVISIONAL
BALL UNPLAYABLE
RULE 26, 27 & 28

32. Water Hazards
Lateral Water Hazards
RULE 26

33. “there must be almost no doubt”
Known or Virtually Certain
“…it must be known or virtually certain that the ball is in the hazard. In absence of such knowledge or certainty, the player must proceed under Rule 27-1(lost ball).”
“A player may not assume that his ball is in a water hazard simply because there is a possibility that the ball may be in the hazard.”
“there must be almost no doubt”

34. Water Hazard - 3 options
1. Play the ball as it lies -- no penalty
2. Drop a ball and play from the spot where the original was last played. (1 Stroke) 1
3. Find the point where the ball LAST CROSSED THE MARGIN OF THE HAZARD and drop a ball on a line connecting that point and the hole as far back as you want to go. (1 Stroke) 3 2

35. Lateral Water Hazard – 5 options original 3 + 2 additional
1. Play the ball as it lies -- no penalty
2. Drop a ball and play from the spot where the original was last played. (1 Stroke) 5 1
3. Find the point where the ball LAST CROSSED THE MARGIN OF THE HAZARD and drop a ball on a line connecting that point and the hole as far back as you want to go. (1 Stroke) 4 3
4. Drop 2 club-lengths from the point the ball LAST CROSSED THE MARGIN OF THE HAZARD (1 Stroke)
5. Drop 2 club-lengths from the opposite margin of the hazard equidistant to the hole 5. (1 Stroke) 2

36. 3 5 1 4 2

37. Ball Lost
RULE 27

38. Lost or Out of Bounds
“That one might
be out, I’d better
hit a provisional ball”
If you think your ball is LOST or OB, you may play a provisional ball before you go to search for the original.
You MUST announce your intention to play a provisional ball.

39. When is a Ball Lost
1. Cannot find or identify the ball within five minutes after you have begun to search for it.

40. 2. The player has dropped another ball to be played.
When is a Ball Lost
2. The player has dropped another ball to be played.

41. When is a Ball Lost
3. The provisional ball is played FROM a spot near where the original is likely to be or closer to the hole than that point.

42. Out of Bounds The ball is OB when the entire ball is at rest OB.
The OB line is determined by the inside edge of the stakes or fence posts
O.B.

43. Lost or Out of Bounds
If your ball is Lost or Out of Bounds you MUST go back to the spot you last played from
STROKE & DISTANCE

44. Ball Unplayable
RULE 28

45. Ball Unplayable
A ball may be declared Unplayable anywhere on the golf course EXCEPT in a Water Hazard
Only the player can determine if the ball is unplayable and relief is taken from the spot of the ball
1 STROKE PENALTY

46. Ball Unplayable -- Three Options
1. Stroke and Distance
2. Drop a ball within two club-lengths of the spot where the ball lay, but not nearer to hole. 2
3. Drop a ball, keeping that point directly between the hole and the spot on which the ball is dropped. 3
Tee 1

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