Playing partner was breaking off branches so he could get a better swing at the ball.
Playing partner was breaking off branches so he could get a better swing at the ball.
13-2. Improving Lie, Area of Intended Stance or Swing, or Line
of Play
A player must not improve or allow to be improved:
• the position or lie of his ball,
• the area of his intended stance or swing,
• his line of play or a reasonable extension of that line beyond the
hole, or
• the area in which he is to drop or place a ball,
by any of the following actions:
• pressing a club on the ground,
• moving, bending or breaking anything growing or fixed (including
immovable obstructions and objects defining out of bounds),
• creating or eliminating irregularities of surface,
• removing or pressing down sand, loose soil, replaced divots or
other cut turf placed in position, or
• removing dew, frost or water.
However, the player incurs no penalty if the action occurs:
• in grounding the club lightly when addressing the ball,
• in fairly taking his stance,
• in making a stroke or the backward movement of his club for a
stroke and the stroke is made,
• in creating or eliminating irregularities of surface within the teeing
ground (Rule 11-1) or in removing dew, frost or water from the
teeing ground, or
• on the putting green in removing sand and loose soil or in repairing
damage (Rule 16-1).
Exception: Ball in hazard – see Rule 13-4.
Point of entry for a drop. He should have gone back to the tee but as he had 15 points after 15 holes, it was all academic really.
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It was the latter.
I've got to get tougher, I guess.
I called a penalty on a partner once, problem is he was the club president and also on the state association's rules committee. It was on the 2nd hole and he didn't talk to me for the rest of the round.
I was aware but I was at the other side of the fairway and his next shot hit the tree's and went deep.
The ball moving whilst being addressed, this happens quite a bit and nobody calls themselves on it.
Incorrect.
The ball falling off the tee is not a penalty unless you have addressed and taken a swing at the ball.
If you knock the ball off the tee while addressing the ball, it is replaced with no penalty.
A little confused by this. The act of addressing continues from when you take your stance until you begin your swing. The only thing "after" addressing it is the swing.
It's easy to let a minor discretion slip or get casual about where it should be dropped when they are already having a turd of a round.
That's all well and good but the problem with that is where do you draw the line???
If the person was in contention to win something you would pull him up but if he wasn't you would let it go even though chances are it would take the same amount of time for each player to proceed???
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Raking a bunker before a shot.
Mate went into bunker to get a rake and raked his foot prints (and others I gather) on the way out. Then went right to the other end of the bunker to play his shot. I asked him what he was doing raking the bunker? He didn't even seem to realise it was the same bunker or that he had done it. Put him on notice, but did not call a penalty. Think he wiped the hole in the end anyway.
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