Alleluia! We’re down to our last question!
I’ll be honest here, participation has really dropped off. We topped out at THIRTY-FIVE participants on Question #2 but we sunk down to just FIFTEEN last week.
So, I thought, perhaps finish up the contest with an easy TRUE-FALSE question so most of you would have a 50-50 chance of getting it right.
But then I thought, nah.
Rule 14 is real ballsy. It covers when and how to substitute, replace, drop and place the ball back into play and the procedure can depend on which part of the course your ball lies. If you don’t get it right, you can play a wrong ball from the right place, the right ball from a wrong place, or even a wrong ball from the wrong place! The penalties can really pile up!
Question #10. In stroke play, a player accidentally kicks their ball in play that was visible in the general area. The ball's exact original location is not known. The player drops another ball within one club-length of, but not nearer the hole than where it lay and makes their next stroke. The dropped ball does not come to rest on its original spot. The correct ruling is that the player:
A. has no penalty
B. gets one penalty stroke
C. gets two penalty strokes
D. gets three penalty strokes
E. is Disqualified
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Question #9. You need to take penalty relief area for the #$%^! fifth time today and you’re only on hole #4. You’re already three holes down on your match with that smug, sandbagging buddy of yours. Your buddy is hovering near you and has a foot in your relief area. You drop the ball properly but it rolls and bounces off your buddy’s foot and comes to rest inside the relief area. You deem it accidental. What do you do?
- Say a few choice words and redrop
- Say more than a few choice words and play it as it lies
- Get really pissed since you play it as it lies and you get an additional penalty stroke!
- Grin mischievously because your buddy gets a one-stroke penalty and you get to choose to redrop or play it as it lies
- Rejoice because your buddy gets the general penalty, loss of hole! And you get to choose to redrop or play it as it lies if you want to finish the hole anyway for handicap purposes
OH No! This one ruined a perfect score! Of the FIFTEEN responses, only TEN got the correct answer “B”. Rule 14.3c (1) Player Has Completed Taking Relief When Ball Dropped in Right Way Comes to Rest in Relief Area is pretty clear on this one. It does not matter whether the ball, after hitting the ground, touches any person, equipment or other outside influence…there is no penalty to any player…if a ball dropped in the right way accidentally hits any person…”
By the way, has an EMGA member ever done this to you? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bcCgRb6sZts
Tom McKernan
Rules & Handicaps
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