Contents


Year of Rules:

Clubs and Balls

Teeing Ground
Order of play
Falling off tee

Playing the Ball
Unplayable
Wrong, Substitute
Lifting, Dropping
Moved, Deflected
Provisional, Lost,
Out of bounds

Putting Green
Flagstick
Marking, lifting
Stymie

Hazards
Water hazards
Lateral water hazards

Abnormal Conditions
GUR
Casual water
Hole, cast, or runway

Miscellaneous
Rule 1
Advice
Scoring
Stableford
Rule 3-3
Old Course, St Andrews
Wartime local rules
Best ever golf poem
Rub of the Green

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The contents of the topics pages are not meant to be comprehensive; they contain pointers to assist you in your own research, plus any trivia of interest that I have come across. As I learn more, they will be added to, or altered accordingly. If you find any statements that you consider inaccurate, or if you have any knowledge to add, please let me know.

 

When reading about the development of a particular topic, remember any rules introduced or changes effected before 1899 may have had widespread acceptance, but they were not necessarily universal.

Individual clubs
1744 Leith
1754 St Andrews
1773 Bruntsfield
1775 Leith
1776 Bruntsfield
1783 Aberdeen
1786 Crail
1802 Edinburgh Burgess
1809 HCEG
1810 Glasgow
1812 St Andrews
1814 Edinburgh Burgess
1815 Aberdeen
1824 Thistle
1825 Perth
1828 Blackheath
1828 Burntisland
1829 St Andrews
1829 Musselburgh
1830 Montrose
1834 Musselburgh
1838 Edinburgh Burgess
1839 HCEG
1839 Royal Perth
1842 R&A
1844 Blackheath
1858 R&A
1875 R&A
1888 R&A
1891 R&A


 

Reproduced from ruleshistory.com