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Welcome
to the Rules of Golf. As approved by the United States Golf Association and The
Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, Scotland United States Golf
Association. Effective January 1, 1998. You can email comments and/or questions
to rules@usga.org.
It
is the goal of the Rules and Competitions Department to respond to all Rules of
Golf questions submitted to the USGA within 15-20 business days.
Through
an agreement with the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, Scotland, the
Rules jurisdiction of the USGA includes only the United States and its
possessions. All questions posed from outside this geographic area will not be
answered by the USGA and should be forwarded to the R&A at the following
mailing address: Royal and Ancient Golf Club Of St. Andrews Fife, KY16 9JD,
Scotland
TABLE
OF CONTENT
Rule
1. The Game
Rule
2. Match Play
Rule
3. Stroke Play
Rule
4. Clubs
Rule
5. The Ball
Rule
6. The Player
Rule
7. Practice
Rule
8. Advice; Indicating Line of Play
Rule
9. Information as to Strokes Taken
Rule
10. Order of Play
Rule
11. Teeing Ground
Rule
12. Searching for and Identifying Ball
Rule
13. Ball Played as It Lies; Lie, Area of Intended Swing and Line of Play; Stance
Rule
14. Striking the Ball
Rule
15. Wrong Ball; Substituted Ball
Rule
16. The Putting Green
Rule
17. The Flagstick
Rule
18. Ball at Rest Moved
Rule
19. Ball in Motion Deflected or Stopped
Rule
20. Lifting, Dropping and Placing; Playing from Wrong Place
Rule
21. Cleaning Ball
Rule
22. Ball Intefering with or Assisting Play
Rule
23. Loose Impediments
Rule
24. Obstructions
Rule
25. Abnormal Ground Conditions and Wrong Putting Green
Rule
26. Water Hazards (Including Lateral Water Hazards)
Rule
27. Ball Lost or Out of Bounds; Provisional Ball
Rule
28. Ball Unplayable
Rule
29. Threesomes and Foursomes
Rule
30. Three-Ball, Best-Ball and Four-Ball Match Play
Rule
31. Four-Ball Stroke Play
Rule
32. Bogey, Par and Stableford Competitions
Rule
33. The Committee
Rule
34. Disputes and Decisions
US/17/100
Flagstick Dimensions
Appendix
I
Appendix
II
Appendix
III
Rules of Amateur Status
Rule
1. The Game
1-1.
General
The Game of Golf consists in playing a ball from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules...