Ten Important Golf Rules

1. Rule 1: You must play the same ball from the teeing ground into the hole.

2. Rule 3-2: You must hole out on each hole. If you don’t, you don’t have a score and are thus disqualified.

3. Rule 6-5: You are responsible for playing your own ball. Put an identification mark on it.

4. Rule 13: You must play the ball as it lies.

5. Rule 13-4: When your ball is in a hazard, you cannot touch the ground or water in the hazard with your club before impact.

6. Rule 16: You cannot improve the line of a putt before your stroke by repairing marks made by the spikes on player’s shoes.

7. Rule 24: Obstructions are anything artificial. Some are moveable so you can move them; some are not so then you have to drop within one club length of your nearest point of relief – no penalty.

8. Rule 26: If your ball is lost in a water hazard, you can drop another behind the hazard keeping the point where the ball last crossed the hazard between you and the hole – with a one-stroke penalty.

9. Rule 27: If you lose your ball anywhere else but in a hazard, return to where you hit your previous shot and hit another – with a one-stroke penalty.

10. Rule 28: If your ball is unplayable you have three options:

· Play from where you hit your last shot.
· Drop within two club lengths of where your ball is now, no closer to the hole.
· Keep the point where the ball is between you and the hole and drop a ball on that line. You can go back as far as you want.



In all cases, you are assessed a one-stroke penalty.