Dilemmas drive solf quiz

{) Two players hit balls into the same water hazard, One caddy is authorized to retrieve both balls. He hands A’s ball to B and B's ball to A. Both drop and play on to the green where they discover the ball switch. Shoukd:

a) both players be penalized:

b) neither player be penalized:

¢) the caddy lose his tip? 2) A club is considered grounded in long grass when:

a) it leaves an impression in the ground:

b) the grass is compressed to the point where it will support the weight of the club;

¢) the club head is no longer visible:

d) lightning passes through it? 3) In a mixed doubles game with the men and women using different tees a man hits his drive out of bounds. Does his partner play her next stroke from:

a) the men's tee;

b) the women’s tee:

¢) off her partner's useless nose? 4) A player’s ball lodges in a tree. While attempting to reach the ball it is dislodged, but not touched, and falls to the ground. Should the player:

a) play on from where the ball lands;

chiake a ong stroke penalty and replace the ball:

d) exclaim ina loud voice, “Those ravens are real tricksters, aren" tthey2" §) 4 golf ball has broken in pieces and been felt in long grass. A phiver mistikes part of the broken bail for bis own and plays a stroke, He has:

iW played a wrong ball and must lose the hole in match play or whe a dwo stroke penalty in stroke play:

b) not played a stroke at all since part of a ball is nota bali:

¢) discovered shameful proof of corked balls on the pro circuit?

Answers

1) b, The rile states only that “a” ball shall be dropped, 2) b. 3) a. 4c. But he may dislodge the ball by shaking the tree or throwing a club at ft with the stated intention of identifying the ball and pro- ceed under the unplayable ball rule. 5) a.

As for the flying divot incident, it seems thar the player who drove the divot up can retrieve it if he chooses but the player in the stance may not remove it, Etiquette should have prevented the practising in any event.

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would rather golfers learned ine more general rules relating to haz- ard play than the mind-boggling ‘golf trivia that can be found in the Decisions On The Rules Of Golf.

Published jointly by the United States Golf Association (USGA) and the Royal and Ancient Goif Club of St. Andrews the book is an annual, inch-thick attempt to estab- lish a uniform cede of rules that keeps up with the ever-evolving game of golf.

It’s a rule-stickler’s bible and very, very few golfers know even 80% of its conients.

Which is why there are rules committees and course officials charged with rule interpretations at club and professional tournaments alike.

But they are not infallible.

This year’s U.S. Open saw one red-faced senior official apologiz- ing for a coast-to-coast boo-boo when Emie Els, one of the leaders at the time, was given line-of-sight relief from a network camera

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When the same tower was observed being driven around the course a few holes later the golfing public lit up the phone lines in a huge way \‘o complain about the “immovable obstruction.”

Wenn works at a recreational golf course and says must people should just be able tc play for fun, but he suggests that too many golfers don’t know how to play out of common obstacles like sand traps.

“Don’t pick up loose in:pedi- ments, don’t ground your club ia the hazard and rake your own foot- prints,” says Wenn.

Other than that he subscribes to the Tom Watson schooi of golf — If you can hit it, play it. If you have a bad lie it’s because you hit it there.

Rutherford would also prefer to keep golf fun.

“Golf can basically be broken down into three rules and if you can remember and live by them you will get out of 99% of tte troubie you hit into,” advises Rutherford.

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Rutherford also suggests that players remember rule 3-3 which allows the option of playing two balls if there is a question about entitlement to relief.

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