Temporary war-time golf play rules

[BullDog]

Anybody watch Feherty this week? I'm watching now and couldn't help but pause and marvel at some modifications to the rules of golf back in 1940 at the Richmond Golf Club, North Shore Golf Course - Blackpool.

For those who didn't see it, here they are. THOSE players out there were HARD CORE.

1. Players are asked to collect bomb and shrapnel splinters to save these causing damage to the mowing machines.

2. In competitions, during gunfire, or while bombs are falling, players may take cover without penalty for ceasing play.

3. The positions of known delayed-action bombs are marked by red flags placed at reasonably, but 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 move accidentally.

5. A ball moved by enemy action may be replaced, or if lost or destroyed, a ball may be dropped not nearer the hole without penalty.

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 from the same place. Penalty, one stroke.

So if your ball literally gets blown away you can replace it for free, but if you get thrown off mid-swing from an explosion, you get penalized. What a system. hehehe...

How wild is all that?!

[Kilroy]

Very cool. I'd be wearing a helmet instead of a golf cap.

[imozzie]

And we gripe about deer flies and drought conditions....lol!

[AAA]

Wrong location. The club was Richmond Golf Club, Surrey, just outside London. The other Richmond clubs in England are Richmond Park Golf Club, also in Surrey and Richmond (Yorks) Golf Club in Richmond, North Yorkshire.

But in any event I don't think Blackpool was a bombing target during the war. Liverpool was the major target in that part of the world

[LobWedge]

[BullDog]

Sorry, I had just transcribed from what appeared to be the actual document shown on tv. Either way - if our only complaint is lack of rain this year, we're good!!!!

Wrong location. The club was Richmond Golf Club, Surrey, just outside London. The other Richmond clubs in England are Richmond Park Golf Club, also in Surrey and Richmond (Yorks) Golf Club in Richmond, North Yorkshire.

But in any event I don't think Blackpool was a bombing target during the war. Liverpool was the major target in that part of the world