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    Original 13 Rules

  • You must Tee your Ball, within a Club's length of the Hole.
  • Your Tee must be upon the Ground.
  • You are not to change the Ball which you Strike off the Tee.
  • You are not to remove Stones, Bones or any Break Club, for the sake of playing your Ball, Except upon the fair Green, & that only within a Club's length of your Ball.
  • If your Ball come among Water, or any wattery filth, you are at liberty to take out your Ball & bringing it behind the hazard and Teeing it, you may play it with any Club and allow your Adversary a Stroke for so getting out your Ball.
  • If your Balls be found any where touching one another, You are to lift the first Ball, till you play the last.
  • At Holling, you are to play your Ball honestly for the Hole, and, not to play upon your Adversary's Ball, not lying in your way to the Hole.
  • If you should lose your Ball, by its being taken up, or any other way, you are to go back to the Spot, where you struck last, & drop another Ball, And allow your adversary a Stroke for the misfortune.
  • No man at Holling his Ball, is to be allowed, to mark his way to the Hole with his Club or any thing else.
  • If a Ball be stopp'd by any person, Horse, Dog, or any thing else, The Ball so stop'd must be play'd where it lyes.
  • If you draw your Club in order to Strike & proceed so far in the Stroke, as to be bringing down your Club; If then, your Club shall break, in any way, it is to be Accounted a Stroke.
  • He whose Ball lyes farthest from the Hole is obliged to play first.
  • Neither Trench, Ditch or Dyke, made for the preservation of the Links, nor the Scholar's Holes or the Soldier's Lines, shall be accounted a Hazard; But the Ball is to be taken out Teed and playd with any Iron Club.
  • Current 34 Rules

    The current 34 categories rules expand on the original 13. There are much more than 34 rules due to the amount of sub-rules and sub-sub-rules that are in place to cover any possible scenario that could happen to a player. They outline the penalty for breaking any rule and how to procede after the infraction has occured.