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Rules Interpretations
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form of "flyers" in previous years.  These are now reproduced here.  
Other interpretations are crafted in a continuing effort to ensure that
we all understand the rules and play by them each week.  New Rule
Interpretations will consistently be adding.  Listings are alphabetical.  
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Abnormal Ground Conditions - If your ball is in a position where you
have interference from an abnormal ground condition (casual water,
ground under repair, a hole, runway made by a burrowing animal), you
may drop without penalty within one club-length of the nearest point of
relief not nearer the hole.  If the ball is in a bunker, it must be dropped
in the bunker, or under penalty of one stroke, dropped any distance
behind the bunker.  If the ball is on the putting green, it must be placed
at the nearest point of relief.

Loose Impediment - Click here to get the USGA's definition and a
review of it's most famous Decision on the Rules of Golf.

Failure to Hole Out - Rule 3-2 of the USGA Rules of Golf states that
"if a competitor fails to hole out at any hole and does not correct his
mistake before he makes a stroke on the next teeing ground or, in the
case of the last hole of the round, before he leaves the putting green,
he is disqualified".

Ball struck more than once - If a player's club strikes the ball more
than once in the course of a stroke, the player must count the stroke
and add a penalty stroke.  The answer is the same regardless of how
many times the club struck the ball.

Lateral Water Hazard Options  

5 Rules Interpretations   
    1.  Water Hazard Options
    2.  Unplayable Lie Options
    3.  Dropping from an Obstruction
    4.  Out of Bounds Definition
    5.  Relief from Boundary Fence