Club Local Rules

Taking Relief

Penalty Areas
If a penalty stroke is incurred, you are allowed 2 club-lengths from the point where the ball last crossed the edge of the penalty area, no nearer to the hole. If no grass area is available within the two club-lengths of relief, the player may take relief to the nearest point where grass is maintained, no closer to the hole.
Free Relief
Free drops are allowed 1 club from your nearest point of relief, no nearer the hole.
Sprinklers Near Green
We do not allow for local rule, F-5. You do not get "line of play" (line of putt) relief from sprinkler heads (immovable obstructions) near the green. You only get relief if your ball, swing, or stance is physically interfered by the immovable obstruction.
Bunkers
It is permissible to modify a ball's lie if a ball hit into the bunker is in an obvious footprint or similarly abused area in the bunker. Lift ball, rake, and recreate lie in the same spot without penalty.
Trees
There is no free relief from trees or any part of a tree (roots are part of a tree). If a player chooses to take relief (no closer to the hole), that player will incur a one stroke penalty. Mark your ball with a tee, take up to one club length relief, drop ball.
Lift, Clean, & Place
This rule will be added ONLY WHEN DEEMED NECESSARY by the Tournament Director, otherwise all balls will be played down and where they lie. If this rule is in effect for the tournament, a player will only use their hand (not a foot, golf club, etc.) to lift, clean, and place their ball within a club length of the original spot, no closer to the hole. Use a tee to mark the original spot and place within the length of that club. Lift, Clean, and Place will only be allowed on the fairway and fringe.
Greens
Putts taken from on the green in the middle of or just behind a dirt patch, may be moved enough distance no nearer the hole to avoid the dirt patch it was in or just behind initially.

Pace of Play

Penalty Areas
In an effort to minimize guys walking backwards: If you hit a shot that crosses the hazard WELL SHORT of where you intend to look for it, hit a provisional ball where it crossed the line, then move forward and look for it. If you find it and it can be played, you are free to do so.
Lost Balls
The time allotted for lost balls is 3 minutes.
Out of Bounds
A ball that goes out of bounds may have the next stroke taken from the fairway perpendicular to where the ball went out of bounds with a 2-STROKE PENALTY being assessed instead (i.e. first stroke goes out of bounds, 2-stroke penalty to drop the ball in the fairway, golfer is now lying three, and about to hit their fourth stroke).

Clarification on Penalty Areas and Drop Areas

Hole 1
Bushes on the far side of the cart path leading from the first green to the 2nd tee is a Penalty Area.
Hole 2
Left of cart path until it crosses maintenance road, then left of maintenance road is a penalty area. Right side, starting at Maintenance Area netting and continuing with the asphalt maintenance road is OB. Beyond the OB, the unmaintained areas, and bushes with dirt and no grass are a penalty area.
Hole 3
Left side, the edge of the bushes is a penalty area. Right side - right of upper maintenance road until the 100 yard marker on cart path, then right of the cart path up to the stairs at 4 tee are penalty areas. Free relief from caged rocks on the right (swing, not Line of Sight), no closer to hole.
Hole 4
Left side, the edge of the bushes is a penalty area. Right side - right of cart path/storm channel, until the Y, then right of the continuing storm channel/maintenance road is a penalty area. The washed-out area between the two paths is Ground Under Repair.
Hole 5
Left of cart path until 100 yard marker on path, then edge of bushes is a penalty area. Free relief (swing and LofS) from halfway house/ restrooms. Flower bed between tree on hill and the green is in play. Right side, right of old maintenance road until it reconnects to cart path, then from base of hill to cart path on #6 is a penalty area
Hole 6
Any ball across the path from the start of the "fairway", continuing behind the green and to the left of the tee on #7 is a penalty area. Drop nearest to where the ball crossed the path, no closer to the hole. OB is the chain link fence on the far side of 7 tee.
Hole 7
Left side, left of cart path from beginning of fairway to the 250 yd marker in path, then left to sprinkler box is a penalty area. OB Right side, 28th Street, then from beginning of rubber walkway in cart path, right of path from there to around back of the green. The inside post of the fence on the right side of hole is the OB line.
Hole 8
Bushes and gulley on the left side continuing left of 6 tee, from sprinkler box to sprinkler box, then around the edge of the tee is a penalty area. Drop area is nearest point where ball crossed the line and grass is maintained. Right side, over fence into Pershing Drive is OB.
Hole 9
OB - Right side, over/under/through fence into Pershing Drive. Left side, free relief (swing and LofS) from Maintenance building.
Hole 10
Left side penalty area begins where grass is no longer maintained and continues through the left and behind the green and is a penalty area. Free relief from cement drain on left. If ball is in the hazard, the drop area is nearest point where grass is maintained.
Hole 11
Right side, free relief (swing and LofS) from Maintenance building.
Hole 12
Right of cart path the entire hole is a penalty area. On the left, canyon through fairway, short left of green, continuing behind and to the right of the green is a penalty area. The hazard begins where grass is not maintained. If a penalty drop is taken, the drop area is where grass is maintained. If the ball rolls down or crosses the cart path by 13 tee into the hazard, the drop area is behind the area between the back white tee on 13 and the cart path.
Hole 13
anything right of the cart path, and the newly excavated area left of green is a hazard. Drop area is at bottom of slope, between the two sprinkler boxes
Hole 14
The fence to the right along Pershing Drive is OB. Left down the entire hole and continuing behind the green, is a penalty area which begins where grass is not maintained. Drop area is nearest where the ball crossed the hazard, where grass is maintained, no nearer the hole.
Hole 15
Left of cart path, until across from small metal hut, then left to hut, then left of maintenance road the rest of the hole is a penalty area. IF there is maintenance equipment or maintenance debris to the right of the maintenance road, outside the P.A., you get free relief (swing and LofS)
Hole 16
The fence along the right side and continuing to the last white stake is OB. Beyond fence and right of the cart path through the green is a penalty area. Left, the canyon through the green is penalty area. Free relief from cement drain on the left. Long or left of the green, the hazard begins where grass is no longer maintained.
Hole 17
The fence along the right and behind the green is OB. Long and left into that rock filled drain area is a penalty area. Drop area is just to the east side of the area where grass is maintained.
Hole 18
Everything right of the cart path is a penalty area. The dirt area right and long of the green is in play...no relief.