Members / Local Rules

1. OUT OF BOUNDS: The course is bounded by walls, fences, white posts and a shallow trench on the seaward side of the 13th and 14th fairways. A ball in or beyond this trench is out of bounds.
   
   
2. IMMOVABLE OBSTRUCTIONS: Huts, seats, shelters, ball washers, pop-up sprinklers, water tank, made-up paths, metallic covers, staked trees, fixed litter bins, fixed steps, tee marker boards, distance-marker discs on fairways, information signs, marker posts at 4th, 5th, 14th, 16th greens and the mesh fencing at the rear of 3rd tee. Relief from these may be taken by reference to Rule 24-2.
   
   
3. Except in Club or Open competitions, a ball played on to a tee must be lifted and dropped off the tee, but not nearer the hole being played.
   
   
4. All fixed sprinkler heads are immovable obstructions. If such an obstruction on or within two club lengths of the putting green interferes on the line of play between the ball and the hole and if the ball lies within two club lengths of the obstruction but not on the putting green or in a hazard, it may be lifted without penalty, cleaned and dropped at the nearest point to where it lay which is not nearer the hole, avoids such intervention and is not in a hazard or on a putting green.
   
   
5. Stones may be removed from bunkers. If the ball is moved in so doing, it shall be replaced without penalty.
   
   
6. Gully rule. If a ball lying above the line of orange marker stakes and below the front of the 15th green is declared unplayable, in addition to the procedure prescribed in Rule 28, it may be dropped at the dropping zone nearest the ball, under penalty of one stroke.
   
   
7. RELIEF FOR EMBEDDED BALL: Through the green, a ball that is embedded in its own pitch-mark in the ground, other than in sand, may be lifted without penalty, cleaned and dropped as near as possible to where it lay but not nearer the hole. The ball when dropped must first strike part of the course through the green.
   
   
8. AERATION HOLES: Through the green, a ball that comes to rest in or on an aeration hole may be lifted without penalty, cleaned and dropped as near as possible to the spot where it lay but not nearer the hole. The ball when dropped must first strike a part of the course through the green. On the putting green, a ball that comes to rest in or on an aeration hole may be placed at the nearest spot not nearer the hole that avoids the situation.
   
   
9. The practice area at the side of the first fairway has been marked with a line. Any ball finishing in that area, including the practice bunker, must be played as it lies. A ball finishing on the practice green must be lifted off and dropped no nearer the hole being played.Players may use the practice area on the days of competitions, providing they practise within the marked area.

Note: Other local rules may from time to time be posted on club notice-boards.