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Local Rules

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Unless otherwise noted, the penalty for breach of a

Local Rule is a two stroke penalty.

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Amended July 2025

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Penalty Areas​

  • All penalty areas are defined as red penalty areas. 

  • Dropping Zones: For balls in or lost in the penalty area on Grove #6 and Plantation #3, the player may take relief under one of the options in Rule 17 or as an additional option under penalty of one stroke, take relief by dropping a ball in and playing from the Dropping Zone (circular areas in the general area cut to fairway height or less).

 

Abnormal Course Conditions

  • Includes ruts caused by vehicles on the course except in a penalty area.   

  • Includes cracks in the parts of the general area cut to fairway height or less but interference does not exist if this only interferes with the player’s stance.   

  • Includes the areas of stones to the immediate left and right to the cart path on Plantation #2 and Plantation #3 and to the right of the putting green on Plantation #3.

  • If an immovable obstruction (e.g., sprinkler head) is on the line of play and is on or within two club-lengths of the putting green and within two club-lengths of the ball, the player may take relief under R16.1b. Complete relief must be taken which includes both physical and line of play interference.  There is no relief under this Local Rule if the player chooses a line of play that is clearly unreasonable.

 

Optional Stroke and Distance Alternative​

 

Out of Bounds​

  • Defined by beyond any white stake or property fence defining the boundary of the course.

  • A ball coming to rest on or beyond a public road is out of bounds even if it comes to rest on another part of the course that is in bounds for other holes.

  • Defined by beyond the penalty area located behind the putting green on Plantation #9 because that area is not property of the club.

 

Distance Markers​

  • Teeing Area yardage markers are measured to the center of the green.

  • Sprinkler heads in the general area are measured to the front of the green.

  • Fairway stakes (blue, white, red and gold) mark 200, 150, 100 and 50 yards, respectively, and are measured to the center of the green.

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