Rules…

No spelling has been changed for this list. This is how it was spelled in 1744

1. You must Tee your Ball within a Club’s length of the Hole;
2. Your Tee (area from which the ball was hit) must be on the ground;
3. You are not to change the Ball which you Strike off the Tee before that hole is played out;
4. You are not to remove any Stones, Bones any Break Club, for the sake of playing your Ball, except of the fair Green, & that only with one 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;
6. If your Balls be found anywhere touching one another you are to lift the first ball till you play the last;
7. At holeing 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 shou’d lose your Ball, by its 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 holeing his Ball is to be allow’d to mark his way to the hole with his Club or anything else;
10. If a Ball be stopp’d by any person, horse or dog, or anything else, the Ball so stopp’d must be played where it lyes;
11. If you draw your Club, in order to strike & proceed so far in your 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 Soldier’s Lines, Shall be accounted a hazard. But the ball is to be taken out Teed and play’d with any Iron Club.

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