The Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship on the DP World Tour has a unique relief rule: above-ground pipelines.
There's a unique feature on the golf course at the DP World Tour's Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship: above-ground oil pipelines.
The Colin Montgomerie-designed Royal Golf Club in the oil-rich nation of Bahrain is hosting the DP World Tour for a third year. It first held a then-European Tour event in 2011, and a local rule was instituted as a result of these pipelines.
Rule 16.1 in the Rules of Golf is for abnormal course conditions. That includes immovable obstructions, which these most certainly are. They are mostly seen on the back nine. If a golfer's ball should happen to stray from the fairway and land in the area, they will get free relief from the pipelines, which deliver an estimated 350,000 barrels of oil per day along a nearly 70-mile route.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Above-ground oil pipelines a unique feature at Royal Golf Club Bahrain
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