WORLEBURY GOLF CLUB
TEMPORARY LOCAL RULES

Preferred lies & Winter Rules

A ball lying on a closely-mown area through the green may be lifted without penalty and cleaned. Before lifting the ball, the player must mark its position. Having lifted the ball, the player must place it on a spot within six inches of and not nearer the hole than where it originally lay, that is not in a hazard and not on the putting green
A player may place his/her ball only once and it is in play when it has been placed (Rule 20-4). If the ball fails to come to rest on the spot on which it is placed, Rule 20-3d applies. If the ball when placed comes to rest on the spot on which it is placed and it subsequently moves, there is no penalty and the ball must be played as it lies, unless the provisions of any other Rule apply.
If the player fails to mark the position of the ball before lifting it or moves the ball in any other manner, such as rolling it with a club, he/she incurs a penalty of one stroke.

Penalty for breach of Local Rule
Match Play – Loss of Hole
Stroke Play – Two Strokes

If a player incurs the general penalty for a breach of this Local Rule, no additional penalty under the Local Rule is applied.

R&A Appendix 1 Part B Rule 4c

Embedded Ball

“Through the green, a ball that is embedded in its own pitch-mark in the ground may be lifted, without penalty, cleaned and dropped as near as possible to where it lay, but not nearer the hole. The ball when dropped must first strike a part of the course through the green”

Penalty for breach of Local Rule
Match Play – Loss of Hole
Stroke Play – Two Strokes

If a player incurs the general penalty for a breach of this Local Rule, no additional penalty under the Local Rule is applied.

R&A Appendix 1 Part B Rule 4a

P Nuttall
Chairman M&H
17/01/14

*THESE UPDATED LOCAL RULES SUPERSEDE ALL PREVIOUS LOCAL RULES*.

COPIES OF ALL THESE LOCAL RULES AND ANY TEMPORARY LOCAL RULES,

CAN BE FOUND IN THE CLUBHOUSE, THE STARTERS HUT AND IN THE PROFESSIONAL SHOP.