二戰時期,每天生活在空襲陰霾下的倫敦居民,究竟是怎麼過的呢?原來他們非但沒有整天躲在防空洞中,更加堅持過回日常的生活,甚至還是會在餘暇的時候打上一場高爾夫球!這是1940年位於倫敦郊區的Richmond Golf Club,二戰時期,他們仍然開放球場給球手們,而且還針對空襲而訂下了不少特別的規則。
引用Richmond Golf Club – Temporary Rules 1940
Richmond Golf Club—1940年臨時守則
1. Players are asked to collect Bomb and Shrapnel splinters to save these causing damage to the mowing machines.
(球手們將被要求協助收集炸彈碎片,以免弄壞割草機。)
2. In Competitions, during gunfire or while bombs are falling, players may take cover without penalty for ceasing play.
(比賽中途如果遇到槍火或空襲,球員可以到躲避處,而不會因為自行停止比賽而受罰。)
3. The positions of known delayed action bombs are marked by red flags at a reasonably, but not guaranteed, safe distance therefrom.
(在場上有未爆炸彈的位置,會有紅旗標示出理論上的安全距離,惟此距離不能保證絕對安全。)
4. Shrapnel and/or bomb splinters on the Fairways, or in Bunkers within a club’s length of a ball, may be moved without penalty, and no penalty shall be incurred if a ball is thereby caused to move accidentally.
(如果球落在球道或沙坑上,而炸彈在不足一個球桿距離的位置時,可以在不受罰之下移球;而如果球因意外而被移動,同樣不予處罰。)
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. (如果球因敵方的行動而被移,可以重新放回;而如果球因此而遺失或損毀,則可重放在不比原位置更近洞口的地方,不予處罰。)
6. A ball lying in a crater may be lifted and dropped not nearer the hole, preserving the line to the hole, without penalty.
(如果球落在炸彈造成的坑洞中,可以拿起重放在不比原位置更近洞口的地方,不予處罰。)
7. A player whose stroke is affected by the simultaneous explosion of a bomb may play another ball from the same place. Penalty one stroke.
(如果球手在擊球時,因同時發生炸彈爆炸而受影響的話,可以重新由原來位置擊球,惟需罰一桿。)
連打球途中會有炸彈爆炸都想好了,果然是沒有甚麼東西能阻止人們打球啊!
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