When you had to be a real man to play golf

[99 pewtercoupe]

It's tough enough for me with the current rules.

Rules of Engagement
7 gentlemanly guidelines for playing golf in war-torn England in 1940.


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.”

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.”

Source: The Richmond Golf Club, Surrey, U.K.

[JRD77VET]

Printed to hand to the golfers at work

[mrvette]

For OLD retarred phardts......fully capable men were busy with more important jobs.....

[markids77]

I wonder if anyone ever detonated unexploded ordnance by hitting it with a golf ball?