On the 70th anniversary of D-Day it is a fitting tribute to the spirit of wartime golfers in Britain to relay the temporary local rules in force at Richmond Golf Club:
- Players are asked to collect bomb and shrapnel splinters to prevent causing damage to mowing machines.
- In competitions, during gunfire or while bombs are falling, players may take cover without penalty for ceasing play.
- The positions of known delayed action bombs are marked by red flags at a reasonably safe distance therefrom.
- Shrapnel and/or bomb splinters on fairways or in bunkers that lie within a club's length of the ball may be moved without penalty and no penalty shall be incurred if the ball is thereby caused to move accidentally.
- 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.
- A ball lying in a crater may be lifted and dropped not nearer the hole, preserving the line to the hole, without penalty.
- A player whose stroke is affected by the simultaneous explosion of a bomb may play another ball from the same place. Penalty one stroke.
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