Local Rules:

USGA rules apply to all play

1. Summer - Play it as it lies

2. Winter - Players may mark, lift, clean, and place their ball within one club length of the original lie no closer to the hole.

   • A ball in a penalty area or sand bunker must be played as it lies.

3. Yardage devices without slope are permitted.

4. All putts must be holed, no gimmies.

5. All marked drainage ditches are treated as obstructions and given free relief

6. Hole 6

   • Players may drop on the Red Tee if their ball comes to rest in the hazard short of the green

7. Hole 7

   • Players may drop on the Red Tee if their ball comes to rest short of the fairway

8. Hole 13

   • The retaining wall against the 13th green is considered an obstruction. If the wall interferes with a player’s swing or stance the player may take relief without penalty. The relief is stance clear of the wall interference plus one club length, no closer to the hole

9. Out of Bounds is defined by white stakes, white lines, or course boundaries. A player must replay from where he/she lasted played from under penalty of one stroke for a ball that comes to rest out of bounds.

   Hole #11 – A ball that comes to rest long of the sidewalk past #11 green is OB.

   Hole #12 – If no white line is visible, left of the cart path on hole #12 is OB.

   Hole #15 – The wall left of #15 fairway is a course boundary. Any ball left of the wall is OB. No relief is given for interference with the wall.
   

   All environmentally sensitive areas will be marked by stakes with green caps and environmental signs. Entry into these areas is prohibited.

   If there is no green cap and no sign, it is to be played as a penalty area.

   Yellow penalty area options:

   1.     Play the ball as it lies.

   2.     Play from where you last played from under penalty of 1 stroke.

   3.     A player may drop, keeping the point where the ball last crossed the margin of the penalty area, in line with the flag back as far as he/she would like to go. Penalty of 1 stroke.

    

   Red penalty area options:

   1.     Play the ball as it lies.

   2.     Play from where you last played from under penalty of 1 stroke.

   3.     A player may drop, keeping the point where the ball last crossed the margin of the penalty area, in line with the flag back as far as he/she would like to go. Penalty of 1 stroke.

   4.     A player may drop within two club lengths of where the ball last crossed the margin of the penalty area, no closer to the hole.

    

   A ball is deemed to be in the penalty area when any part of the ball touches the penalty area. The line itself is in the penalty area.

   A ball is deemed to be out of bounds when all of the ball lies out of bounds. The line itself is out of bounds.

    

10. Model Local Rule B-3

    • “If a player does not know whether his or her ball is in the penalty area [identify location], the player may play a provisional ball under Rule 18.3, which is modified in this way:

      • In playing the provisional ball, the player may use the stroke-and-distance relief option (see Rule 17.1d(1), the back-on-the-line relief option (see Rule 17.1d(2)) or, if it is a red penalty area, the lateral relief option (see Rule 17.1d(3)). If a dropping zone (see Model Local Rule E-1) is available for this penalty area, the player may also use that relief option.

    • Once the player has played a provisional ball under this Rule, he or she may not use any further options under Rule 17.1 in relation to the original ball.

    • In deciding when that provisional ball becomes the player’s ball in play or if it must or may be abandoned, Rule 18.3c(2) and 18.3c(3) apply except that:

      • When Original Ball Is Found in Penalty Area Within Three-Minute Search Time. The player may choose either to:

        • Continue to play the original ball as it lies in the penalty area, in which case the provisional ball must not be played. All strokes with that provisional ball before it was abandoned (including strokes made and any penalty strokes solely from playing that ball) do not count, or

        • Continue to play the provisional ball in which case the original ball must not be played. 

      • When Original Ball Is Not Found Within Three-Minute Search Time or Is Known or Virtually Certain to Be in Penalty Area.

        • The provisional ball becomes the player’s ball in play.

Penalty - Any rules infraction shall be evaluated by Head Golf Professional - Chris Lungo

If the ruling is in question, play a second ball and record both scores. The player must stipulate which ball he intends to score.