Ashgrove Golf Club - Local Rules

As at 04/04/2013

Please check the daily local rules on display at the Club and also the scorecard as the definitive sources of information.

Daily Local Rules

• 14th hole LHS (hill) GUR clarification - Mown section IS IN PLAY, unmown sections are GUR

• Complete relief can be taken from bare patches on closely mown fairway as well as chemically sprayed dead grass areas through the green on the following fairways 5th,11th 14th and 18th.

   

• "Through the green" - a ball embedded in its own pitch mark - place 1 card length no nearer the green

Local Rules

• All barriers including hoops, ropes, string, posts and safety nets are immovable obstructions (Rule 24-2)
• Solar post and safety light on 3rd hole are immovable obstructions (Rule 24-2)
• Pathways, constructed pathways or bare approaches to these pathways and bridges are to be treated as immpvable obstructions - relief without penalty (Rule 24-2)
• Powerlink posts, protective screens and shelters, ornamental gardens, drainage grids, distance markers, rock/block retaining walls, irrigation points, sprinkler heads,large rock on 5th fairway, power poles on 18th fairway,  sand bins and tee signs are treated as immovable obstructions - relief without penalty (Rule 24-2)
• Irrigation points within 2 clublengths of a green : line of putt  relief may be obtained without penalty (Rule 24-2)
• Wheel tracks: a ball resting in a wheel trackthrough the green may be lifgted and dropped within one clublength but no nearer the hole and without penalty (Rule 25-1)
• A ball hitting a directional barrier (including solar post and safety light, and Powerlink posts) may be played as it lies or replayed without penalty
• Relief:  if a ball lies on bare patches on closely mown fairway or in a sand filled divot, 1 club length nearest point of relief no nearer to the hole
• Stones in bunkers are movable obstructions (Rule 24-1)
• All areas affected by washouts from paths are GUR (Rule 25-1)
• Out of Bounds: in addition to those boundaries so marked, the left hand side of the 8th fairway is defined by the bicycle path.  A ball resting on or crossing the path is out of bounds.
• Bennett Road: A ball which crosses Bennett Road, defined as out of bounds, and comes to rest beyond that road, is out of bounds even though it may be in bounds.
• A player may obtain distance information by using a device that measures distance only. If during a round a player uses a distance-measuring device that is designated to gague or measure other conditions that might affect his play  (e.g. gradient, wind speed, temperature etc.) the player is in breach of Rule 14-3.
• All relief from GUR is compulsory free relief - 1 club length nearest point of relief, no nearer the hole (unless othewise marked with a drop zone)

Coloured stakes: Black - O.O.B, Yellow - water hazard, Red - lateral water hazard,  White - G.U.R