STACKSTOWN GOLF CLUB
–LOCAL RULES 2011.
As provided in Rule 33-8a, the Committee may make and publish Local Rules
Penalty for a breach of a local rule:- unless otherwise stated, 1 shot penalty in stroke play, loss of hole in match play.
GROUND UNDER REPAIR
Full relief must be taken within one club length from nearest point of relief, not nearer the hole, from the following without penalty
A) Any area marked with white paint
B) All roped off areas
C) Any area marked with a GUR sign.
TEE BOXES
Tee pegs are mandatory for all tee shots – Penalty: loss of hole in match play, 2 shot penalty otherwise.
INTEGRAL PARTS OF THE COURSE
All trees (other than staked trees), steps, cottage and its surrounds, boundary fences/walls/bridges and railway sleepers. The ball must be played as it lies or declared unplayable with relief under penalty available under Rule 28.
Machinery Tyre/Track
A ball lying in a Tractor/Machinery track or tyre mark may be lifted and dropped within one club length from the point at which the ball lies, not nearer the hole without penalty.
Tees
A ball lying on a permanent tee must be played as it lies except when winter rules apply. During winter rules, the ball must be lifted and dropped off the tee box at the nearest point of relief not nearer the hole.
Embedded Stones
Full relief may be taken from embedded stones on the fairway within one club length from the point at which the ball lies, not nearer the hole without penalty.
Pylons/Wires
A ball striking an ESB pylon/pole, telegraph pole or wires must be replayed without penalty.
Aeration Holes on the Putting Greens
When the greens have been aerated/cored, relief may be taken. Only when on a putting green, a ball that comes to rest in or on an aeration hole maybe placed at the nearest spot not nearer the hole that avoids the situation.
Distance Measuring Devices & Mobile phones
For all play on this course a player may obtain distance information by using a device (including a mobile phone) that measures distance only. Mobile phones may be used on the course for exceptional or emergency purposes only.
MOVABLE OBSTRUCTIONS RULE 24.1
Stones and rakes in bunkers are movable obstructions
IMMOVABLE OBSTRUCTIONS RULE 24-2
A player may take relief within one club length of the nearest point of relief, not nearer the hole without penalty from an immovable obstruction.
All fixed seats at tees, monument at 15th (White course) 13th (Blue Course), direction indicators, manhole covers, gully traps, fairway sprinkler heads, tee markers, ball washers and drinking fountains, fairway distance markers and distance marker posts, oil house, pump house, pylons, telegraph and ESB poles, winter tee mats, staked trees, bell poles, paths and driveway. In the case of the driveway the relief is two club lengths.
Sprinkler Heads (within two club-lengths of the putting green)
Where a ball lies off the putting green, is not in a hazard and is within two club-lengths of the obstruction which intervenes with the line of play between the ball and the hole, a player may lift and drop the ball, without penalty, at the nearest point where the ball lay that:
(a) Is not nearer the hole,
(b) Avoids intervention,
(b) Is not in a hazard or on a putting green.
Relief Hole on the Green (24.2b(3))
If the ball lies on the putting green a player may take relief if the “relief hole” intervenes on his line of putt, the player must lift the ball and place it without penalty at the nearest point of relief.
Note: A relief hole is a hole covered with a “man made cap” it is not a hole that has been replaced permanently
Wrong Green 25-3(B)
If a player’s ball lies on a wrong putting green (permanent or temporary), the player must not play the ball as it lies, the player must take relief, without penalty, as follows:
The player must lift the ball and drop it within one club-length of and not nearer the hole than the nearest point of relief. The nearest point of relief must not be in a hazard or on a putting green.
Where possible after relief is taken players feet should not be on the putting surface.
OUT OF BOUNDS RULE 27-1
Outside the boundaries of the course, and all areas marked with White Stakes including the practice putting green, the practice chipping area, the practice ground, the turf nursery, the machinery yard, the car park and surfaced areas surrounding the clubhouse.