Local Rules - Golfcourse Celle


01.01.2011

Stakes:
White stakes or electric pig-fences Out of Bounds
 Yellow stakes Water hazards
Red stakes Lateral water hazards
Blue stakes Ground under repair
Distances:
Green/Yellow stakes right and left of the fairways: 200 meters
 Green/red stakes right and left of the fairways: 150 meters
Green/white stakes right and left of the fairways: 100 meters
ALL MEASUREMENTS ARE TO THE FRONT OF THE GREEN!!

Pin Positions: red Flag: front third of green
Yellow Flag: middle third of green
White Flag: back third of green

Rangefinder: The use of optical and GPS Rangefinders is allowed.

Out of Bounds: The steep slopes on the fairways 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9.
 The ponds on the right of fairway 3
All areas behind the demarcated white stakes and the electric pig-fences
Left hand of the fairways 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15.

Ground under Repair (Rule 25):
 The area on the right of the Mens 1st. Tee (Rule 25-1)

Abnormal Ground Conditions:
A player is entitled to relief without penalty under Rule 25.1, if he has interference to the lie of his ball or the area of his intended swing because of a hole made by a burrowing animal. Not if his stand is interfered with.
All bare areas (approx.25 cm) on short mowed areas (rule 25-1b)

Winter Greens:
Winter Greens marked with a blue stake, must be protected inside a diameter of 4 meters. The player must take advantage under Rule 25-1b. Golf carts and trolleys are not allowed on the winter greens.

Winter Regulations ( Official Golf Rules 2008-2011, Appendix 1,-4b):
From November 01st. until April 30th. A ball lying on a short mowed area of a fairway (not on a green or in a hazard) may be moved to within 20 cm of its original position but not nearer to the hole. The ball may only be moved once.
Penalty for any violation: Mathplay loss of hole
Stokeplay two strokes


Unmoveable Obstructions (relief according to Rule 24-2b is possible)
All fixed sprinkler heads, connection boxes, benches, trashbins, rain shelters, artificially covered paths, drainage gutters (filled with gravel)
In addition, if a sprinkler head on or within 2 club lengths of the green of the hole being played intervenes on the line of play between the ball and the hole, the player may obtain relief without penalty as follows: if the ball is not on the green, not in a hazard and is within two club lengths of the intervening obstruction it may be lifted, cleaned and dropped at the nearest point to where it lay, not nearer to the hole, free of the hazard and not in a hazard or on a green.