1. A visiting 4 Ball in an Open Competition walk-off 13th Green and mistakenly playoff 18 th tee – they are about to Putt out on 18 th green when they are advised of error – what is ruling/penalty? 2. You take a proper penalty drop from the edge of the river at the side of 10 th – but your swing is still impeded or hindered by overhanging branches from trees actually growing within the hazard – as you haven’t really improved your situation - do you have any relief?
3. Does an alteration of a score on a Card need to be signed or initialled?
4. You badly hook your drive at the 10th – hit the big tree on your left just forward of the tee – your ball bounces back and ends up back in the trees on your left more or less level with where you just hit - you can clearly see the ball is certainly playable (but to where? ) only possible route out probably further left and back towards 9 th green. Can you instead declare the ball unplayable and play 3 off the tee? 5. Brian and Allison are playing in mixed foursomes. On the green at the 8th Allison helps Brian with what she thinks should be the line of his putt and she actually touches the green both with her hand and then with her own putter to indicate where he should be aiming. What is the ruling?
QUARANTINE QUIZ ANSWERS 9 1. They go back and tee off properly on 14 th – a penalty of 2 shots each, any additional shots they played on the wrong hole don’t count.
2. NO
3. NO
4. YES player is the sole judge as to whether the ball is unplayable.
5. No Penalty – it would appear under new rules you can do almost anything on Green – only thing playing partner or caddie must not do is to stand in a position to show line when player is actually putting.
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