El Dorado Women's Golf Club

The following are local rules and additional information pertaining to the rules of golf:

1. GREEN - Only if your ball comes to rest on the deep machine cut around the green may you lift, clean and place your ball at the nearest point off the great, no nearer the hole, no penalty. Note: all of the greens do not have a deep machine cut around them.

2. FAIRWAY - When "preferred lies" are in effect. A player may lift, clean and replace her ball within 6 inches of the original spot where ball lay, no nearer the hole, no penalty.

3. STAKED TREES OR BUSHES - If a staked tree or bush, including yardage marker bushes, interferes with your stance or area of intended swing, the ball MUST be dropped at the nearest point of relief (that point nearest where your ball lay which protects the tree for subsequent play), no nearer the hole, without penalty.

4. NEWLY SEEDED AREAS AND TEMPORARY GREENS NOT IN USE - If your ball or stance is affected by these conditions, you must take relief as per ground under repair. When it is impossible to move to the nearest spot due to hazards, obstructions, etc., you may move behind the area keeping the point where the ball lie between you and the hole and dropping within one club length of the area, without penalty.

5. WATER HAZARDS - Water hazards are defined by yellow lines, or in the absence of lines, by the break of the ground to the water. Lateral water hazards are defined by red lines, or in the absence of lines, by the break of the ground to the water. When stakes are present, they only identify the hazards.

6. OUT OF BOUNDS - This is defined by inside edges, at ground level, of perimeter fences (not telephone poles), and driving range fences. All artificially surfaced paths, dirt-covered maintenance roads, and the extensions of each are also included as immovable obstructions.

7. RULING ON HOLE #8 - If a wire fence has been erected surrounding the #8 green to keep the mud hens away, and your ball comes to reset up against the fence, this will be considered the same as the ball entering the water. It will be an unplayable, one penalty stroke, and ball to be dropped no nearer to the hole. If you feel the ball can be stroked where it lies, remember this is considered a hazard and the club cannot be grounded. Rule Book - Page 71 - Rule 26, Lateral Water Hazards.