Bangkok Wanderers Golf Club

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BWGC LOCAL RULES 2008

 

Download as PDF Also available as laminated card. Ask for one at the next event.


1. Mobile Phones – Use of mobile phones is restricted to the drinks huts areas.   Phones should be switched off or put on “silent” so as not to disturb other players. 
2. Stones – Stones in bunkers are movable obstructions.    Rule 24-1 applies.
3. Landscaped (flowers or other) beds - Free drop 1 club length, no nearer the hole from the nearest point of relief for a ball found in, or lying such that a landscaped bed interferes with your stance or intended swing.  You MUST find your ball in the flowerbed; otherwise your ball is lost.
4. Embedded Ball in its own Pitch Mark - Free relief through the green.  Maybe be lifted, cleaned and dropped as near as possible to the spot where the ball lay, but not nearer the hole.
5. Distance Measuring Device - Not permitted.
6. Water hazards - Those not marked with a red or yellow stake are to be played as lateral water hazards and the margin of the hazard is deemed to be where the long rough starts.  Areas of "cabbage" are in the hazard.
7. Concrete and Wooden Liners - these can be found around the edge of water hazards and are inside the margin of the hazard.   No free relief.
8. No Gimmie's -  you must putt out.  In Stableford competitions if you can’t score points on a particular hole, you may pick up.
9. Drop zones - NOT allowed.
10. Staked Trees - Free relief shall be taken from staked trees interfering with swing or stance.
11. GUR - No free drops for GUR unless marked by the course.
All other Local Rules stated on the score card apply.
12. President Hole 6 Par 3:  The margin of the hazard is the greenside edge of the concrete liner. If your 2 club length drop no nearer the hole includes the green you are permitted to drop you ball on the green.

If in doubt play the course as you find it and the ball as it lies.

General

  • Exchange score cards with playing partner
  • Scores cards are to be signed by both player and marker
  • Clearly mark all birdies on the players score card with a Triangle
  • Do not ask your caddy for any ruling, ask your playing partner
  • Please avoid slow play and keep up with the group in front of you, in particular when making the turn from holes 9 to 10 or 18 to 1.

Definitions
Embedded ball – is a ball embedded in its own pitch mark.  The ball must have ‘broken’ the surface of the course.
Through the Green:  Everywhere on the course - except all hazards and the teeing ground and green of the hole being played. 

Rule 28 - Ball Unplayable 
The player may deem his ball unplayable at any place on the course, except when the ball is in a water hazard. The player is the sole judge as to whether his ball is unplayable.
If the player deems his ball to be unplayable, he must under penalty of one stroke:

  • a) Play a ball as nearly as possible at the spot from which the original ball was last played;
  • b) Drop a ball behind the point where the ball lay, keeping that point directly between the hole and the spot on which the ball is dropped, with no limit to how far behind that point the ball may be dropped; or
  • c) Drop a ball within two club-lengths of the spot where the ball lay, but not nearer the hole.

If the unplayable ball is in a bunker, the player may proceed under Clause a, b or c. If he elects to proceed under Clause b or c, a ball must be dropped in the bunker.
When proceeding under this Rule, the player may lift and clean his ball or substitute a ball.
PENALTY FOR BREACH OF RULE: Match play – Loss of hole; Stroke play – Two strokes.

If in doubt play the course as you find it and the ball as it lies.