Continental Golf Club Local Rules

 

1. Greenside Sprinkler Head
If a ball lies through the green and is in an immovable obstruction or within two club-lengths of the immovable obstruction and intervenes on the line of play between the ball and the hole, the player may take relief as follows:

The ball must be lifted and dropped at the nearest point to where the ball lay that (a) is not nearer the hole, (b) avoids intervention and (c) is not in a hazard or on a putting green.

If the player’s ball lies on the putting green and an immovable obstruction within two club-lengths of the putting green intervenes on his line of putt, the player may take relief as follows:

The ball must be lifted and placed at the nearest point to where the ball lay that (a) is not nearer the hole, (b) avoids intervention and (c) is not in a hazard.

The ball may be cleaned when lifted.

2. Stones in bunkers
Stones are, by definition, loose impediments and, when a player´s ball is in a hazard, a stone lying in or touching the hazard may not be touched or moved (Rule 13-4). However, stones in bunkers may represent a danger to players (a player could be injured by a stone struck by the players club in an attempt to play the ball) and they may interfere with the proper playing of the game.

Stones in bunkers
Stones in bunkers are movable obstructions. Rule 24-1 applies.

3. Waste bunkers #2 and # 7 (Through the fairway)
Waste bunkers are natural sandy areas and are not considered hazards according to the rules of golf, and so, unlike in fairway or greenside bunkers, golfers are permitted to ground a club lightly in, or remove loose impediments from, the area around the ball.

Elk Fencing

All trees with Elk Fencing are considered Free relief for stance, swing and line of sight.