*LOCAL RULES EFFECTIVE 6th June 2025: *

1. Ground Under Repair: All GUR will be marked by a white line or stakes – stakes have priority. When the margin of ground under repair is defined by stakes, the stakes are inside the ground under repair and the margin of the ground under repair is defined by the nearest outside points of the stakes at ground level. Relief must be taken under Rule 16.1 from all areas marked “GUR play prohibited”.

2. Bunkers: Bunkers clearly marked with a stake in or immediately alongside are designated "through the green" and GUR. If a player’s ball lies in the bunker or the bunker interferes with the player’s stance or the area of intended swing, the player may take relief outside the bunker, without penalty, in accordance with Rule 16.1. All other bunkers on the course, regardless of their condition and whether they contain water, maintain their status as bunkers and the Rules of Golf apply accordingly.

3. Immovable Obstructions: Relief under Rule 16.1 may be taken from the following:

i. Green-Keeping Access Paths: If a player's ball in play comes to rest on the following established green-keeping access paths:

a. 10th and 11th holes: Green keepers track running between 10th and 11th holes (and up to greenkeepers’ shed on 11th) and across the ridge of the 10th hole.
b. 12th hole: To the left of the fairway up to and including a drain cover beside the temporary green (12A) about 100 yards from the 12th green.
c. 18th hole: To the right of and across the fairway near the marker post, then up the left side of the fairway. Relief is continuous until the path joins the 12th hole, detailed above.

ii. Hoops, Ropes & Stakes/Posts: The hoops, ropes and their supporting stakes used to protect the course from excessive wear must not be moved as they are deemed to be immovable obstructions and relief may be taken under Rule 16.1. When a ball played hits a temporary sign, hoop, rope or supporting stake protecting areas on the course, a player may take the shot again from its original position without penalty.

iii. Other Immovable Obstructions include: Fairway yardage marker discs, sprinkler heads, water valve covers, services and fixtures, inspection covers and the drain hole on the 1st green (if in the line of the intended putt); supporting posts of bells on holes 10 and 18, ball washers, staked trees or tube-protected trees, permanent rope and post fences.

4. Out of Bounds (Rule 18.2): Beyond all boundary hedges and fences and beyond the nearest inside points at ground level of all out of bounds white posts. If a fence runs through a hedge, the hedge is the boundary. Note: the electric badger fences are situated OOB from which there is no relief.

5. Prohibiting Play from Fringe of Wrong Green:
If a player must take relief under rule 13.1f because their ball comes to rest on the putting green of holes 3, 5 or 10 when playing a different hole (wrong green), they must also take relief if their ball comes to rest within two club lengths of any of those greens. In either case the nearest point of complete relief must be at least two club lengths from the edge of the green.

6. The Protective Fence to the Left of the 5th Fairway: The fence is an integral part of the course, not an immovable obstruction. As such there is no free relief option for stance, swing or line of play. Unplayable ball relief may be taken under Rule 19.2 (Relief Options for Unplayable Ball in General Area), adding one penalty stroke, or the ball may be played as it lies.

7. Artificial Tee Mats: When an artificial grass tee mat is to be used on a particular hole (marked by the tee markers on the front of the tee mat):
i) the teeing area for that hole is restricted in size behind the tee markers by the outside edges of the tee mat; ii) the player must not stand outside the tee mat when making a stroke at the ball in the teeing area.

If a stroke is made at a ball positioned outside the mat, or while the player is standing outside the mat, the player will incur the general penalty of 2 strokes for playing from wrong place (rules 14, 14.7a & 14.7b). The stroke may not be replayed.

Generated by the Golfing Committee: Golfing Committee Chairman, General Manager, Handicap Secretaries, Course Representative, Captain & Women’s Captain, Vice Captains, Senior and Junior Chairpersons