LOCAL RULES  (May 2021)

1. OUT OF BOUNDS:  Rule 18.2b
  • Outside the course boundaries.
  • Buildings and adjoining verandahs, seating areas, garden beds.
  • Bitumen areas, driveways and car parks.
  • Maintenance compound.
  • Driving range and practice areas.
2. PROTECTION OF YOUNG TREES: If a young tree less than 2 club lengths in height interferes with a player’s stance or swing, the ball MUST be lifted and dropped. Using the nearest point of relief, that is not nearer the hole, as the reference point the player must drop and play the ball from the relief area. The ball may be cleaned before being dropped. Rule 16.1f applies.
3. IMMOVABLE OBSTRUCTIONS: Include taps, sprinkler heads, seats, signs, manhole covers. Rule 16.1 applies.
4. IMMOVABLE OBSTRUCTION CLOSE TO PUTTING GREEN:
In addition to the types of interference described in Rule 16.1a, interference also exists if an immovable obstruction is on the player’s line of play, and is within 2 club lengths of the putting green, and is within 2 club lengths of the ball.
Exception: there is no relief under this Local Rule if the player chooses a line of play that is clearly unreasonable.
5.  MOVABLE OBSTRUCTIONS: Include the hoops beside the greens (Rule 15.2a provides free relief).
6. ABNORMAL COURSE CONDITIONS: Free relief is allowed under Rule 16.1. The following conditions are included:
  • Damage caused by birds in general area and on putting green.
  • A ball that comes to rest in or on an aeration hole on the putting green.
  • A ball located in an erosion washout in bunkers.
  • Embedded stones in the general area.
  • Wheel ruts caused by course maintenance vehicles.
  • Paths
7. BUNKERS: Where rakes are missing, preferred lies are allowed by the ball being placed within a club length in the same bunker, no nearer the hole, without penalty. Ball may be cleaned. Otherwise, Rule 12.2 applies. Bunkers include the prepared areas of sand along several fairways.
8. MOTORISED CARTS: Motorised carts may not be used in VGL events or club championships except by players 70 years of age and over. Exceptions to this rule may be approved by the VGL for VGL events or the SGC Committee for club championship rounds. Motorised carts may be used in other events. Penalty for breach of this Local Rule is disqualification. 
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Unless otherwise noted the penalty for breach of a Local Rule is the general penalty: (stroke play - 2 strokes, match play – loss of hole).
 
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