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LOCAL RULES OF GOLF FOR
HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE COURSES
Unless otherwise noted, the
penalty for breach of a Local Rule or Condition is:
Match Play – Loss of Hole
Stroke Play – Two Strokes
1.
Out of Bounds – Rule 27.
Defined by inside
edge of white stakes at ground level. Public streets, parking lots, club houses and maintenance
facilities are out of bounds. Typically, the edge of the
road or curb nearest the golf course is the boundary. A ball that
crosses such a boundary is out of bounds even though it may lie on
another part of the course.
2.
Integral Parts of
the Course.
Liners in bunkers and
artificial walls and pilings when located in hazards.
Cables, rods, wires
or wrappings when closely attached to trees.
3.
Water Hazards and
Lateral Water Hazards
– Rule 26.
When both stakes and
lines define a water hazards, the stakes identify the hazard and the
lines define the hazard margin.
When a lateral water
hazard is defined only on one side, it is deemed to extend to
infinity. Accordingly, when hazard markers are positioned side by
side and a out-of-bounds marker is adjacent to the two hazard stakes
all ground and water beyond the defined margin of the hazard is in
the hazard; otherwise, when water hazards are bounded by OB markers
with red tops, the hazard margin coincides with the out of bounds
line.
4.
Movable
Obstructions – Rule
24-1.
Stones in bunkers
are movable obstructions
5.
Immovable
Obstructions – Rule
24-2.
White lined areas
tying into artificially surfaced roads and paths or obstructions are
deemed to have the same status as the obstruction and are not ground
under repair.
Landscaped garden
areas completely encircled by an obstruction are deemed to be a part
of the obstruction.
Unmarked drain
pipes and culverts and the surrounding screens, grates, concrete
or hand-laid rocks are immovable obstructions and relief without
penalty is available under Rule 24-2 unless it is clearly
unreasonable to make a stroke because of interference by anything
other than the obstruction. The area adjacent to the obstruction
is deemed to be an integral part of the course.
6.
Temporary
Immovable Obstruction (TIO)
– Appendix I
Electrical fans,
supporting wires and cables.
Relief for
intervention (line of sight) as well as lie of ball, stance, and
area of intended swing.
7.
Abnormal Ground
Conditions – Rule 25.
Sod seams through the
green are deemed to be ground under repair. All seams within the
sodded area are considered to be the same seam. Relief is available
for lie of ball and area of intended swing ONLY (no relief for
stance).
All flower beds
throughout the course are mandatory relief areas. Relief is
taken under Rule 25-1. If the flower bed is in a water hazard, the
player must proceed under Rule 26-1 incurring a one stoke penalty.
8.
Embedded Ball
Through the Green –
Rule 25.
Through the green,
a ball that is embedded in its own pitch-mark in the ground, other
than sand, may be lifted without penalty, cleaned and dropped as
near as possible to where it lay but not nearer the hole.
9.
Distance
measuring devices
Distance measuring devices will be allowed as long as they measure
distance only. The use of devices that gauge or measure
other conditions that might affect play (e.g., wind, elevation, or
gradient) are not permitted
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