Local Rules

• defined by white stakes, fences or white lines
• internal out of bounds margins :
  • fairway, green and green bunkers of hole 7 when playing hole 5
  • fairway of hole 1 when playing hole 10
• a ball which crosses the public road (hole 10,11, 14, 15) defined as out of bounds and comes to rest beyond that road on another hole is out of bounds.

• play prohibited
  • defined by blue stakes or white lines
  • winter greens
• play allowed
  • drainage pipe treches filled with earth, sand or gravel
  • compost heaps around the base of trees
  MOVABLE OBSTRUCTIONS (R 24-1) (R 24-1)
  • stones in bunkers
  IMMOVABLE OBSTRUCTIONS (R 24-2)
  • all staked trees
  • all distance markers
  • short stakes placed around the base of trees (relief is only for hinder caused by the stakes - not by the tree)
  DISTANCE MARKERS
  • Distance stakes on the right of the fairway: 100 m and 150 m to the centre of the green.
  • Distance markers in the middle of the fairway:
    • white: 200 m to the front of the green
    • yellow : 150 m to the front of the green
    • red : 100 m to the front of the green
      
  • the use of GPS systems to measure distances on the course is permitted.
  ETIQUETTE
  • replace your divots
  • repair your pitchmarks on the green
  • rake the bunkers
  • avoid slow play
  
  See also ad valvas if any temporary local rule is in order.
  
  Penalty for breach of local rule:
  
  • 2 strokes in strokeplay
  • loss of hole in matchplay