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| Greetings from Bellville | Thursday, April 18, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
 Events coming up in 2016: Drought relief fund Please help the Seniors with this amazing cause! Hoërskool Bellville Gholfdag Bulgaria Golf Tour
 The last few weeks has seen what feels like the start of winter, with cooler temperatures and some much needed rainfall. The rainfall is key not only for the filling of the irrigation dam, but also flushes the poor quality of water in the dams while also flushing the turf’s soil profiles. We have recently completed the autumn treatment on the course that included the hollow tining of the greens, surrounds and tees. Below are some of the reasons why the hollow tining practice is so important, especially on older greens with poor water quality: · Promotes root development. · Thatch control. · Release of toxic gasses. · Improves wetting or hydrophobic soils. · Compaction relief. · Disruption of soil layering. · Better response to fertilisers During hollowtining granular fertiliser and calcium products have been applied to aid in recovery and further flush the profiles, these practices along with a number of other practices, tools and products all work together to manage heat, wind and irrigation water stress and aid to keep the plant health.  Happy birthday to the following members who are celebrating their birthdays this week:
 25: Abnormal Ground Conditions, Embedded Ball and Wrong Putting Green 25-1: Abnormal Ground Conditions B: Relief Except when the ball is in a water hazard or a lateral water hazard, a player may take relief from interference by an abnormal ground condition as follows: (i) Through the Green: If the ball lies through the green, the player must lift the ball and drop it, without penalty, within one club-length of and not nearer the hole than the nearest point of relief. The nearest point of relief must not be in a hazard or on a putting green. When the ball is dropped within one club-length of the nearest point of relief, the ball must first strike a part of the course at a spot that avoids interference by the condition and is not in a hazard and not on a putting green. (ii) In a Bunker: If the ball is in a bunker, the player must lift the ball and drop it either: (a) Without penalty, in accordance with Clause (i) above, except that the nearest point of relief must be in the bunker and the ball must be dropped in the bunker or, if complete relief is impossible, as near as possible to the spot where the ball lay, but not nearer the hole, on a part of the course in the bunker that affords maximum available relief from the condition; or (b) Under penalty of one stroke, outside the bunker keeping the point where the ball lay directly between the hole and the spot on which the ball is dropped, with no limit to how far behind the bunker the ball may be dropped. (iii) On the Putting Green: If the ball lies on the putting green, the player must lift the ball and place it, without penalty, at the nearest point of relief that is not in a hazard or, if complete relief is impossible, at the nearest position to where it lay that affords maximum available relief from the condition, but not nearer the hole and not in a hazard. The nearest point of relief or maximum available relief may be off the putting green. (iv) On the Teeing Ground: If the ball lies on the teeing ground, the player must lift the ball and drop it, without penalty, in accordance with Clause (i) above. The ball may be cleaned when lifted under Rule 25-1b. (Ball rolling to a position where there is interference by the condition from which relief was taken – see Rule 20-2c (v)) Exception: A player may not take relief under this Rule if (a) interference by anything other than an abnormal ground condition makes the stroke clearly impracticable or (b) interference by an abnormal ground condition would occur only through use of a clearly unreasonable stroke or an unnecessarily abnormal stance, swing or direction of play. Note 1: If a ball is in a water hazard (including a lateral water hazard), the player is not entitled to relief, without penalty, from interference by an abnormal ground condition. The player must play the ball as it lies (unless prohibited by Local Rule) or proceed under Rule 26-1. Note 2: If a ball to be dropped or placed under this Rule is not immediately recoverable, another ball may be substituted 
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