12 hours ago by John

In the new decsion 29/5.5 we saw that it was ok for a player in foursomes to rake the bunker even if his partner had left the ball in the bunker. Decision 30-3f/2.5 Touching Sand with Practice Swing After Partner Has Extricated Ball from Bunker; Four-Ball Match says that in a four-ball things are di ...

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12 hours ago by John

This decision is very appropriate considering the previous post on Kenny Perry and JB Holmes at the Shark Shootout this past weekend. The title is Partner Stands on Extension of Player’s Line of Play Behind Ball. It makes it very clear that what Kenny Perry was doing last weekend was a penalty. Holm ...

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13 hours ago by John

When the Committee suspends play for a dangerous situation, play is supposed to stop immediately. What happens if a side in match play doesn’t stop? Decision 30-3e/1 Partners Fail to Discontinue Play Immediately Contrary to Condition of Competition covers this. In this decision the horn blows, but A ...

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13 hours ago by John

This decision caused a lot of discussion around our office earlier this week. One of our tournament officials called and asked about it. The decision is titled: Application of Rule 2-2 in Four-Ball Match Play. The decision says, in full The second paragraph of Rule 2-2 does not apply in four-ball ma ...

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13 hours ago by John

Today there will be 5 new decisions covered. Decision 29/5.5 Raking Sand in Bunker After Partner Fails to Extract Ball but Before Stroke; Foursome Match is a foursomes decision while the other four are four-ball decisions. This decision was discussed three years ago at the 85 and above USGA workshop ...

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23 hours ago by Ben Austro

Usually we will give a complete rundown of the “Official Review” segment from the NFL officiating department, but we wanted to advance the news out of that segment to its own post first. A tip-off to a rare midseason rule change was dropped as vice-president of officiating Mike Pereira ( video) was ...

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1 day ago by John

We’ve probably all been in the situation where we want to hit a provisional ball, but there is nobody near to us that we can inform. For instance we are going for a par 5 in two and the other players in out group have laid up and walked forward to their balls. Or we [...]

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1 day ago by John

In stroke play if a player plays out of turn, play should continue with no penalty unless it was done specifically to assist a fellow-competitor. Decision 27/17 Competitor Plays Out of Turn Other Than from Teeing Ground and Puts Another Ball into Play at Spot of Previous Stroke covers the player who ...

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1 day ago by John

What happens when your ball comes to rest in a burrowing animal hole. Normally you get relief under Rule 25-1b. But, there is an exception to Rule 25-1b which says that if, due to something else, it is clearly unreasonable to play the shot given where the ball is located, you do not get relief. [... ...

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2 days ago by John

In this decision, Loose Impediment Affecting Lie of Ball Moved a player lifts his ball to allow under Rule 22 to allow another player to hit his shot. When the other player hits his shot, a loose impediment that was lieing under or next to the first player’s ball is moved. The decision tells us [... ...

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