RICHMOND GOLF CLUB (TEMPORARY RULES - 1940)

Golf was such a genteel game 60 years ago, where British phlegm was at its best, witnessed by this notice, posted at Richmond Golf club in 1940...Brilliant.

                                        RICHMOND GOLF CLUB
                                   (TEMPORARY RULES - 1940)

1.    Players are asked to collect bomb and shrapnel splinters on and
       around the greens to prevent these from causing damage to the
       mowing machines.

2.   In competitions, during gunfire or while bombs are falling, players
      may take cover without penalty for ceasing play.

3.   Positions of known but delayed action bombs are marked by red
      flags at a reasonably, but not guaranteed, safe distance therefrom.

4.  Shrapnel and/or bomb splinters on the fairways or in the bunkers,
     within a clubs length of the ball, may be moved without penalty,
     and no penalty shall be incurred if a ball is thereby caused to move
     accidentally

5.  A ball moved by enemy action may be replaced, or, if lost or destroyed,
     a ball may be dropped, not nearer the hole, without penalty.

6.  A ball lying in a crater may be lifted and dropped, not nearer the hole,
     preserving the line to the hole, without penalty.

7.  A player whose stroke is effected by the simultaneous explosion of a
     bomb, may play another bal from the same place. Penalty, one stroke.