1. Ground Under Repair/ No Play Zones

Any area marked by blue lines or posts, is a No Play Zone and a player must take full relief if either their stance or ball is within these lines. 

Any area marked by white lines and/or defined as Ground Under Repair provides the player with an option of relief. The ball may still be played as it lies.

Areas of unusual damage (on the regular maintenance traffic routes), caused by large machinery traffic combined with wet conditions to alter the ground surface, may be treated as ground Under Repair. Please note this does not include small indentations caused by regular mowing practices and is confined to regular maintenance traffic routes only.

2. Construction work on Holes 4 & 5

The newly installed drainage lines on Holes 4 & 5 are to be treated as a No Play Zone and relief should be taken as detailed above.

Similarly, the large seeded area to the left of the fairway should be treated as a No Play Zone and relief should be taken as detailed above, or from the drop zone.

3. Preferred Lies

When a player's ball lies in a part of the general area cut to fairway height or less, the player may take free relief within 6 inches, but not nearer to the hole. The original location of the ball must be marked and the ball may be cleaned before placing.

4. Relief from Aeration Holes

A ball that comes to rest in or on an aeration hole within the general area may be lifted without penalty, cleaned and dropped as near as possible to the spot where it lay but not nearer the hole. The ball when dropped must first strike a part of the course through the green.

On the putting green, a ball that comes to rest in or on an aeration hole may be placed at the nearest spot not nearer the hole that avoids the situation.