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(Foursomes) In a mixed competition, your tee shot goes out of bounds. Because its alternate shot, does your teammate hit the next shot from your tee or the tee she normally plays from? |
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(Four-ball) You and your teammate both hit into the same greenside bunker. If he removes a pebble that is in the path of your intended swing - but not his - does your side lose the hole? |
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(Singles) If your opponent says "your putt is good," but you putt anyway and miss, does the missed putt count? |
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If your opponent marks your ball on the green without asking your permission, is he or she penalised? |
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In singles, if your opponent says "your putt is good," but you putt anyway and miss, does the putt count? |
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In foursomes, can you intentionally whiff a shot so your big hitting teammate can carry a water hazard on the hole? |
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In a singles game, what is the maximum number of holes your match can be adjusted if you carry more than 14 clubs in your bag? |
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If your partner is running late in your fourball, can you take on your two opponents alone? |
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In a four-ball (better-ball) match, can your side play in any order, no matter who is the farthest from the hole? |
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In a foursomes match, you just miss a short putt to lose a hole, so you stay there for a few minutes practising the same putt. Your team mate hits the next tee shot. Is this allowed? |
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Your tee shot rockets down the middle of the fairway, but the ball strikes a post that indicates the 150-metre mark and ricochets out-of-bounds. What is the ruling? |
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You find a range ball next to your ball and notice the driving range is next to the hole you are playing. While waiting to hit your shot, you casually knock the ball with your club back onto the range. Penalty or no penalty? |
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To speed play while playing a match in a club tournament, you and your opponent agree to concede all putts “inside the leather.” Your caddie overhears the deal-making and interrupts to say the Rules don’t allow your arrangement. Is such an agreement permissible? |
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Before a match, Player A tells Player B that they should come up with a standard length for gimmie putts so that they don’t have to debate it later. Player B agrees, suggesting it should be the length of the putter grip. Is this allowed? |
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Player A appears to hook his drive into a bush. He says he’s not going to look for it and hits another. Walking down the fairway, only three minutes later, he finds his ball sitting in a bunker. Can he play it? |
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Player A has hit his ball on a cartpath and is entitled to relief. Instead of going back to his bag, which is about 25 feet away, he asks player B if he can borrow his driver to measure the one-club distance. Is player A allowed to do this? |
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A player leaves his bag on the fairway so he doesn't have to carry it all the way back to the tee. After he hits his tee shot out-of-bounds, he realises that he doesn't have another ball in his pocket. He asks his playing partner if he can borrow one. Is this allowed? |
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Neither player A nor player B brand their golf balls with an identification mark before the start of the round. When they hit their tee shots into the same area, they can’t identify their golf balls. Are both balls considered lost? |
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If player A is in a matchplay championship that begins at 11am (Note that Rule 6-3 is in effect.) He shows up at 11:02, but his opponent doesn't arrive at the first tee until 11:04. Does player A win the hole? |
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You try to stop your swing when you see your ball start to topple off the tee, but you lightly tap the back of the ball and the ball rolls forward. What do you do? |
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You hit your ball into a bunker that is covered by leaves. After removing a few so you can see part of the ball, you make a backswing that touches a few of the remaining leaves. What's the ruling? |
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A golf cart is considered part of your equipment, meaning if your ball strikes it, its a one-stroke penalty in match play. But what if you're sharing a cart with your apponent in match play and he'e moving the cart when you hit it. Are you penalised? |
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You about to putt for birdie from off the green when you notice a pitch mark on the fringe in your path. You also notice the sod from the divot is nearby. Can you fill the divot with the sod to putt over the spot without interference from the divot? |
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Two players are all square through 15 holes when the skies open and it begins to pour. Player A wants to keep playing, but Player B doesn't. If Player B leaves the course, the match is... |
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After hitting your ball into a lateral water hazard and tossing another one down where your original ball last crossed the margin of the hazard. You realise that you didn't take a proper drop. You pick it up, hold it at shoulder height and arm's length, drop it and play on. Penalty or no penalty? |
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During a match, you swing at a ball buried in the rough, but you miss it. The ball doesn't move. You look down and notice that it isn't your ball. You find your ball nearby and play on. What's the ruling? |
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You hit a ball into the bank of a lake that has been marked as a lateral water hazard. You think you see the ball resting in the hazard, but just to be sure, you tee up another ball, declare it a "provisional" and rifle one into the fairway. That ball you just hit is... |
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You’re at a corporate golf outing, playing in a four-man team best ball. While waiting for your turn to putt on a difficult green, your caddie takes your putter and demonstrates how you should swing it to make the putt. You hole the putt - but have you just violated a rule? |
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Your ball comes to rest next to a tree with low-hanging branches. Keeping both hands on the grip, you back into a tree to take your stance in the least intrusive manner. A branch breaks because of your actions. Your opponent says you’re in breach of Rule 13-2 and should incur a penalty. You say no penalty has been incurred. Who’s right? |
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A player takes a rake into a bunker so that he can smooth his footprints after playing from the bunker. He sticks the handle of the rake into the sand prior to playing his stroke. Is this permissible? |
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During a stroke-play event on a course with numerous water hazards, you run out of balls. May you borrow one or more balls from another player? a) No, your only chance to avoid a DQ is to run like heck to the pro shop and return with a new supply of balls without delaying play. b) Yes, you can borrow golf balls during a stipulated round. |
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A man and a woman are playing in a mixed league match play format. One hole on the course is a par 5 for women (from the red tees) and a par 4 for men (from the white tees). If the woman, playing from the red tees, records a par 5, and the man, playing from the white tees, records a par 4, who wins the hole? |
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Two players’ balls are on the fringe of the green. Player A’s ball is farther away; he asks his opponent to mark because he wants to putt rather than chip and the other ball is in his line. Player B refuses to mark his ball, saying he doesn’t have to since they are both off the green. What is the correct ruling? |
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You’re playing a match against a friend. He drops you off at your ball and starts to drive the golf cart to his ball when you hit a shot that caroms off the tire. Penalty or no penalty? |
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During a stroke-play event on a course with numerous water hazards, you run out of balls. May you borrow one or more balls from another player? a) No, your only chance to avoid a DQ is to run back to the pro shop and return with a new supply of balls without delaying play. b) Yes, you can borrow golf balls during a stipulated round. |
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A friend accidentally was waggling his club in front of him when he struck his ball off the toe and sent it flying perpendicular to his target line, into high grass. He dropped another and said there was no penalty because he did not intend to make a stroke. Ruling? |
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Your shot lands in a pond on a par 3. You hit another just short of the green only to discover the hole has a drop area. Can you forget about your second tee shot and play from the drop area? |
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A friend accidentally was waggling his club in front of him when he struck his ball off the toe and sent it flying perpendicular to his target line, into high grass. He dropped another and said there was no penalty because he did not intend to make a stroke. Ruling? |
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Your shot lands in a pond on a par 3. You hit another just short of the green only to discover the hole has a drop area. Can you forget about your second tee shot and play from the drop area? |
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