SHORELINE SENIORS GOLF CLUB
LOCAL RULES IN EFFECT FOR
TODAY'S TOURNAMENT
A. LOCAL RULES ESTABLISHED
BY THE COMMITTEE IN CHARGE OF THE COURSE
As printed on
the Shoreline Golf Links scorecard (including the full text of the applicable
rule,as set forth in The Rules of Golf, not the summarized version on the
scorecard) and including Temporary
Obstructions and areas marked as Ground Under Repair on a temporary basis
(these Local Rules are also supplemented by any Local Rules set forth by the
Committee in Charge of the Competition, the Club's Tournament Committee, as set
forth below)
B. LOCAL RULES ESTABLISHED
BY THE COMMITTEE IN CHARGE OF THE COMPETITION
(1) The Rules of
Golf, Appendix I, Part B, pages 102-103, Specimen Local Rule #1: Water Hazards;
Ball Played Provisionally Under Rule 26-1: applicable to all water hazards
(yellow/red stakes) and permitting play of another ball provisionally under any
of the applicable options in Rule 26-1 if there is doubt as to whether the
original ball was lost in a water hazard
(2) The Rules of
Golf, Appendix I, Part B, pages 110-111, Specimen Local Rule #6: Immovable
Obstructions Close to Putting Green: permitting of line of play relief, above
and beyond relief specified in Rule 24-2,
from interference by an immovable obstruction (usually a sprinkler head)
if a ball lies off the putting green, not in a hazard, and the obstruction is
both 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;
relief shall be lifting, cleaning and dropping at the nearest point to where
the ball lay that (a) is not nearer the hole, (b) avoids intervention and (c)
is not in a hazard or on a putting green
C. TEMPORARY LOCAL RULE
ESTABLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE IN CHARGE OF THE COMPETITION FOR CERTAIN LOCAL
ABNORMAL CONDITIONS
The following
temporary local rule (Appendix I, Part B, Specimen Local Rules) is in effect
for today's competition:
Specimen Local
Rule 4c ("Preferred Lies" and "Winter Rules"): A ball lying
on a closely mown area through the green ("cut to fairway height or
less" invariably means fairways and aprons, but not the intermediate cut)
may be lifted without penalty, cleaned and replaced on a spot within one
club-length of and not nearer the hole than where it originally lay that is not
in a hazard and not on a putting green