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Original 13 Rules  

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Articles & Laws in Playing at Golf
May 14, 1754

   1. You must Tee your Ball, within a Clubs length of the Hole.

   2. Your Tee must be upon the Ground.

   3. You are not to change the Ball which you Stroke off the Tee.

   4. You are not to remove Stones, Bones, or any Break Club, for the sake of playing your Ball, Except upon the fair Green, & that only within a Club's length of your Ball.

   5. If your Ball come among Watter or any wattery filth, you are at liberty to take out your Ball & bringing it behind the Hazard and Teeing it, you may play it with any Club and allow your adversary a Stroke for so getting out your ball.

   6. If your Ball be found any where touching one another, You are to lift the first Ball till you play the last.

   7. At Holling, you are to play your Ball honestly for the hole, and, not to play upon your Adversary's Ball, not lying in your way to the Hole.

   8. If you shoud lose your Ball, by it's being taken up, or any other way, you are to go back to the Spot, where you struck last, & drop another Ball, and allow your Adversary a Stroke for the misfortune.

   9. No man at Holling his Ball is to be allowed, to mark his way to the Hole with his club or anything else.

   10. If a Ball be stopp'd by any Person, Horse, Dog, or any thing else, The Ball so stop'd must be played where it lyes.

   11. If you draw your Club, in order to Strike & proceed so far in the Stroke, as to be bringing down your Club; If then your Club shall break in any way, it is to be accounted a Stroke.

   12. He whose Ball lyes farthest from the Hole is obliged to play first.

   13. Neither Trench, Ditch or Dyke, made for the preservation of the Links, nor the Scholar's Holes or the Soldiers Lines, Shall be accounted a Hazard, But the Ball is to be taken out, Teed, and playd with any Iron Club.

   John Rattray Cpt.

   The 5th and 13th Article of the foregoing Laws having occasioned frequent Dispute It is found Convenient That in all time Coming the Law Shall be, That in no case Whatever a Ball Shall be Lifted without Losing a Stroke Except it is in the Scholar's holes When it may be taken out Teed and played with any Iron Club without losing a Stroke ___ And in all other Cases The Ball must be played where it lyes Except it is at least half Covered with water or filth When it may if the player Chuses be taken out Teed and Played with any Club upon Loosing a Stroke.

Thomas Boswall Capt.

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