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ETIQUETTE |
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To assist players with the complex rules & etiquette
for playing the game of golf, we have put together
this short list of the most important rules to make
every event a success, for all those playing. This is
not intended to replace the full rules of golf, but
should help to reming all players of the basic rules.
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Etiquette - Applying common sense, courtesy and
good manners on the golf course.
- Don't move, talk or stand near a player making a
stroke.
- Don't play until the group in front is out of
the way.
- Always play without delay. Leave the putting
green as soon as all the players in your group have
holed out.
- Invite faster groups to play through.
- Replace divots. Smooth footprints in bunkers.
- Don't step on the ine of another player's putt.
- Don't drop clubs on the putting green.
- Replace the flagstick - carefully! - if you hole
out first.
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Ten Golden Rules
These 10 fundamental guidelines summarize most
situations you are likely to encounter on the course.
If you learn them well, you'll be ready for anything.
REMEMBER if you don't know what the ruling is,
DO WHAT IS FAIR.
Play the ball as it lies.
Don't move, bend or break anything growing or fixed,
except in fairly taking your stance or swing. Don't
press anything down.
You may lift natural objects not fixed or growing,
except in a water hazard or bunker. (No penalty.)
You may move man-made objects even in a bunker or
water hazard. If they are immovable, you may drop
within one club length of the nearest point of relief
(unless your ball is in a water hazard), no nearer the
hole. In a bunker, you must drop in the bunker. (No
penalty.)
Unless your ball is in a water hazard, you may drop
away from casual water, ground under repair (GUR), or
burrowing animal holes or their casts. On the putting
green, place at the nearest point of relief, no nearer
the hole; otherwise drop within one club length of the
nearest point of relief, except that in a bunker the
ball must be dropped in the bunker. If complete relief
is impossible within the bunker, drop in the
bunker at the point of maximum available relief. (In
each case, there is no penalty.)
In a water hazard or bunker, don't touch the water or
ground with your hand or club before the stroke.
If you hit your ball into a water hazard and cannot
play it, either drop behind the hazard or at the place
you played the shot. (One penalty stroke.) If you hit
into a lateral hazard you may also drop within two
club lengths of the point where the ball last crossed
the hazard margin. (One stroke penalty.)
When you hit your ball out of bounds or lose it, add a
penalty stroke, go back and drop a ball at the
place you played the shot from. (On the tee, you may
tee the ball.) Alternatively, drop within two club
lengths, no nearer the hole, or any distance behind
the unplayable spot, keeping it between you and the
hole. If the ball is in a bunker, you must drop in the
bunker, under either of the alternative options.
On the putting green, you may repair ball marks and
old hole plugs on the line of the putt, but not spike
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