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ETIQUETTE OF GOLF.
1. A single player has no standing, and must always give way to a properly const.i.tuted match.
2. No player, caddie, or onlooker should move or talk during a stroke.
3. No player should play from the tee until the party in front have played their second strokes and are out of range, nor play up to the putting-green till the party in front have holed out and moved away.
4. The player who has the honour from the tee should be allowed to play before his opponent tees his ball.
5. Players who have holed out should not try their putts over again when other players are following them.
6. Players looking for a lost ball must allow other matches coming up to pa.s.s them.
7. On request being made, a three-ball match must allow a single, threesome, or foursome to pa.s.s. Any match playing a whole round may claim the right to pa.s.s a match playing a shorter round.
8. If a match fail to keep its place on the green, and lose in distance more than one clear hole on those in front, it may be pa.s.sed, on request being made.
9. Turf cut or displaced by a stroke should be at once replaced.
10. A player should carefully fill up all holes made by himself in a bunker.
11. It is the duty of an umpire or referee to take cognisance of any breach of rule that he may observe, whether he be appealed to on this point or not.
