Playing Golf during War

[C5 Golfer]

During the Battle of Britain early in the Second World War, the St.

Mellon's Golf and Country Club, located in Monmouthshire, adopted a set of

unusual rules for unusual circumstances.

Written by B. L. Edsell, the club secretary, they read:

1 - Players are asked to collect the bomb and shrapnel splinters to

prevent their causing damage to the mowing machines.

2- In competition, during gunfire or while bombs are falling, players may

take shelter without penalty for ceasing play.

3 - The positions of known delayed-actions bombs are marked by red flags

at a reasonable by not guaranteed safe distance therefrom.

4 - Shrapnel and/or bomb splinters on the fairways or in bunkers within a

club's length of a ball may be moved without penalty, and no penalty shall

be incurred if a ball is thereby caused to be moved accidentally.

5 - A ball moved by enemy action may be replaced, or if lost or destroyed,

a ball may be dropped without penalty, not nearer the hole.

6 - A ball lying in a crater may be lifted and dropped not nearer the

hole, preserving the line to the hole, without penalty.

7 - A player whose stroke is affected by the simultaneous explosion of a

bomb may play another ball under penalty of one stroke.

[boarderboy]

8 - Arcing ball pings strafing Stuka - automatic hole-in-one awarded.

(sadly, none verified ... )

BB

Edited April 29, 2012 by boarderboy