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14 A Quick Guide to the Rules of Golf When dropping, stand erect, hold the ball at shoulder height and arm’s length and drop it. The most common situations where a dropped ball must be re-dropped are when the ball: • rolls to a position where there is interference from the condition from which free relief is being taken (e.g. an immovable obstruction) • comes to rest more than two club-lengths from where it was dropped, or • comes to rest nearer the hole than its original position, the nearest point of relief or where the ball last crossed the margin of a water hazard. There are nine situations in total when a dropped ball must be re-dropped and they are covered in Rule 20-2c. If a ball dropped for a second time rolls into any of these positions, you place it where it first struck the course when re-dropped. Ball Assisting or Interfering with Play (Rule 22) You may: • lift your ball or have any other ball lifted if you think the ball might assist another player, or • have any ball lifted if it might interfere with your play. You must not agree to leave a ball in position in order to assist another player. A ball that is lifted because it is assisting or interfering with play must not be cleaned, except when it is lifted from the putting green. Loose Impediments (Rule 23) You may move a loose impediment (i.e. natural loose objects such as stones, detached leaves and twigs) unless the loose impediment and your ball are in the same hazard. If you remove a loose impediment and this causes your ball to move, the ball must be replaced and (unless your ball was on the putting green) you incur a one-stroke penalty. Movable Obstructions (Rule 24-1) Movable obstructions (i.e. artificial movable objects such as rakes, bottles, etc.) located anywhere may be moved without penalty. If the ball moves as a result, it must be replaced without penalty. If a ball is in or on a movable obstruction, the ball may be lifted, the obstruction removed and the ball dropped, without penalty, on the spot directly under where the ball lay on the obstruction, except that on the putting green, the ball is placed on that spot.
A Quick Guide to the Rules of Golf 15 Immovable Obstructions and Abnormal Ground Conditions (Rules 24-2 and 25-1) An immovable obstruction is an artificial object on the course that cannot be moved (e.g. a building) or cannot readily be moved (e.g. a firmly embedded direction post). Objects defining out of bounds are not treated as obstructions. An abnormal ground condition is casual water, ground under repair or a hole, cast or runway made by a burrowing animal, a reptile or a bird. Except when the ball is in a water hazard, relief without penalty is available from immovable obstructions and abnormal ground conditions when the condition physically interferes with the lie of the ball, your stance or your swing. You may lift the ball and drop it within one club-length of the nearest point of relief (see Definition of “Nearest Point of Relief”), but not nearer the hole than the nearest point of relief (see diagram below). If the ball is on the putting green, it is placed at the nearest point of relief, which may be off the putting green. There is no relief for intervention on your line of play unless both your ball and the condition are on the putting green. As an additional option when the ball is in a bunker, you may take relief from the condition by dropping the ball outside and behind the bunker under penalty of one stroke. The following diagram illustrates the term “nearest point of relief” in Rules 24-2 and 25-1 in the case of a right-handed player. P1 B1 ROAD OR GUR B2 P2 Direction of play Right-handed player B1 = position of ball on road, in ground under repair (GUR), etc. P1 = nearest point of relief P1 shaded area = area within which ball to be dropped, radius of one club-length from P1, measured with any club B2 = position of ball on road, in ground under repair (GUR), etc. = notional stance required to play at P2 with club with which player would expect to play the stroke P2 = nearest point of relief P2 shaded area = area within which ball to be dropped, radius of one club-length from P2, measured with any club
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Page 5 and 6: Contents Rule 20 3 Playing the Ball
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Page 17 and 18: How to Use the Rule Book How to Use
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Page 27 and 28: Consideration for Other Players Eti
Page 29 and 30: Etiquette 21 Preventing Unnecessary
Page 31 and 32: Definitions 23 in play and Rule 11-
Page 33 and 34: Definitions 25 Note 1: A ball playe
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Rule 14 67 b. Positioning of Caddie
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The Putting Green Rule 16 The Putti
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Rule 16 / 17 73 16-2. Ball Overhang
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Rule 18 75 Ball Moved, Deflected or
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(Playing a wrong ball - see Rule 15
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Rule 19 79 (b) after a stroke on th
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Relief Situations and Procedure Rul
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Rule 20 83 (b) the nearest point of
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Rule 20 85 d. Ball Fails to Come to
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Rule 20 87 If a competitor becomes
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Rule 22/23 89 A ball lifted under t
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Rule 24 91 b. If the ball lies in o
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Rule 24 93 24-3. Ball in Obstructio
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Rule 25 95 (ii) In a Bunker: If the
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Rule 25 / 26 97 hole. The ball when
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Rule 26 99 (b) add an additional pe
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Rule 27 101 27-2. Provisional Ball
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Other Forms of Play Rule 29 Threeso
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Rule 30 105 d. Penalty to Side A si
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Rule 31 107 If the wrong ball belon
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Rule 32 109 In handicap bogey, par
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Rule 32 111 The Committee may, in s
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Rule 33 / 34 115 33-7. Disqualifica
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Rule 34 117 If the dispute or doubt
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Appendix I 119 a. Relief for Embedd
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Appendix I 121 3. Areas of the Cour
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Appendix I 123 1. Water Hazards; Ba
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Appendix I 125 Note: The Committee
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Appendix I 127 water hazard, the pl
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Appendix I 129 Note: “Closely-mow
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Appendix I 131 The ball must be lif
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Appendix I 133 The ball may be clea
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Appendix I 135 4. Grass-covered cab
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Part C Conditions of the Competitio
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Appendix I 139 Note: If a ball of a
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Appendix I 141 The signal for suspe
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Appendix I 143 10. How to Decide Ti
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Appendix I 145 General Numerical Dr
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Appendix II 147 1. Clubs a. General
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Fig. III Back 10º Max 20º Max Fac
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Appendix II 151 Exception for Putte
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Appendix II 153 • features that e
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Appendix II 155 For traditionally s
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Appendix II 157 • The distance be
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Appendix III - The Ball Appendix II
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Appendix IV 161 A “plain” glove
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Rules of Amateur Status Amateur Sta
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Amateur Status 165 Preamble The R&A
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Rule 1 Amateurism Amateur Status 16
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Amateur Status 169 (ii) the contrac
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Amateur Status 171 b. Multiple Awar
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Amateur Status 173 e. Invitation Un
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Amateur Status 175 financial gain,
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Amateur Status 177 Rule 8 Procedure
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Amateur Status 179 e. Status While
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Amateur Status 181 Unacceptable For
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Index 183 cleaning [Rule 21] ......
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Index 185 Bogey Competitions breach
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Index 187 College Teams — expense
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Index 189 sharing of distance infor
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Index 191 Gambling — policy on ..
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Index 193 determining score for whe
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Index 195 out of bounds, used to de
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Index 197 winner of hole [Rule 2-1]
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Index 199 Out of Bounds. See also O
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Index 201 local rule [App. I] .....
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Index 203 from teeing ground [Rule
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Index 205 cancelling [Rule 10-1c] .
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Temporary Conditions, see Course Co
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The activities of The R&A through a
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