{"id":4804,"date":"2026-04-14T09:51:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.riversideputters.ca\/wordpress\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:51:46","slug":"e-5-ob-or-lb-local-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riversideputters.ca\/wordpress\/?p=4804","title":{"rendered":"USGA local rule E-5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">USGA local rule E-5<\/span><\/strong>:<br>Alternative to Stroke and Distance for Lost Ball or Ball Out of Bounds<br>As I had mentioned, this rule was put into effect on Jan. 1st 2019 and there always seems to be some confusion regarding  it.<br>So please read and watch the following video on the this rule on the official USGA site which I&#8217;m providing a link to here.<br><br>Click me please big boy -&gt; <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usga.org\/content\/usga\/home-page\/rules-hub\/rules-modernization\/major-changes\/golfs-new-rules-stroke-and-distance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USGA local rule E-5<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Please note<\/strong>: Even though this is an official USGA rule, it doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s used by the Pros, it&#8217;s a &#8220;local rule&#8221; intended for us amateurs to help with pace of play for recreational golfing. I&#8217;ll make a page with this post and put it under the RESOURCES menu tab for future reference.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USGA local rule E-5:Alternative to Stroke and Distance for Lost Ball or Ball Out of BoundsAs I had mentioned, this rule was put into effect on Jan. 1st 2019 and there always seems to be some confusion regarding it.So please read and watch the following video on the this rule on the official USGA site &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riversideputters.ca\/wordpress\/?p=4804\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USGA local rule E-5<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riversideputters.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riversideputters.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riversideputters.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversideputters.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversideputters.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversideputters.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversideputters.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riversideputters.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversideputters.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversideputters.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}