{"id":278,"date":"2012-03-28T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:49:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:49:51","slug":"wartime-rules-of-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/wartime-rules-of-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Wartime Rules of Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think you play on a tough course? You ain&#8217;t seen nothing like this, from the Richmond Golf Club in Surrey, England, promulgated in 1941:<\/p>\n<p>1. Players are asked to collect bomb and shrapnel splinters to save these causing damage to the mowing machines.<\/p>\n<p>2. In competitions, during gunfire or while bombs are falling, players may take shelter without penalty for ceasing play. <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/6801261595_c5cf57c6b8_o.jpg\" style=\"clear:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"190\" width=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/6801261595_c5cf57c6b8_o-300x178.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>3. The position of known delayed action bombs are marked by red flags at a reasonable, but not guaranteed, safe distance therefrom.<br \/><a name='more'><\/a><br \/>4. Shrapnel and\/or bomb splinters on the fairways or in bunkers, within a club&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>6. A ball lying in a crater may be lifted and dropped not nearer the hole, preserving the line to the hole, without penalty.<\/p>\n<p>7. A player whose stroke is affected by the simultaneous explosion of a bomb may play another ball. Penalty one stroke. <\/p>\n<p>Most writers would try to come up with a witty comment on each rule, but they exceed anything I could even imagine. Play well, and have fun. And play in peace.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecreationalgolfer.com\/books.html\">www.therecreationalgolfer.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think you play on a tough course? You ain&#8217;t seen nothing like this, from the Richmond Golf Club in Surrey, England, promulgated in 1941: 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/wartime-rules-of-golf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wartime Rules of Golf<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rules"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/6801261595_c5cf57c6b8_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-4u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}