What do the foundations say about leaving your marker down when you putt?
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My fellow competitor marked his ball and picked it up. He then changed his ball and putted with out selecting up his marker. I advised him his ball was not in play as a result of he left his marker in place, and thus had hit a unsuitable ball — he wanted to switch his ball, with a two-stroke penalty. He mentioned I used to be stuffed with baloney. Is the ball in play should you don’t decide up your marker? —Robert Tarbox, through e-mail
Actually, Robert, Guidelines Man can’t abdomen baloney, and alas you’re each stuffed with it.
The inserting or removing of the ball marker has nothing to do with whether or not the ball is in or out of play. Bupkis.
Actually, it’s the act of lifting or changing the ball that will change its standing. That mentioned, Rule 14.1 does prohibit enjoying a ball with out first eradicating the ball marker, a breach for which your fellow competitor did deserve one penalty stroke (not two), regardless that it wasn’t a unsuitable ball.
He wants to vary his methods, and you want to eat a little bit of crow.
For extra marker-related steerage from our guru, learn on …
Guidelines Man: Are gamers required to mark their balls on the greens when requested?
I performed a blind shot from a deep greenside bunker onto the inexperienced, then raked the sand. Finally, I obtained to my ball, missed the ensuing putt and tapped in. Strolling off the inexperienced, I seen a stray ball marker. Seems one in all my enjoying companions forgot to inform me she’d marked my ball and moved it from her line. Ought to I’ve been allowed to switch my ball on the correct spot and replay from there? Additionally, any penalties and, in that case, to whom? —Terry Christensen, through e-mail
In stroke play, the opposite participant is an outdoor affect, and there’s no penalty to anybody for the ball being moved. File it beneath: Stuff occurs.
Because you had no data or digital certainty that an outdoor affect moved your ball— see Rule 9.2b(2) should you’re inclined — you proceeded accurately, not from a unsuitable place, and the ball is holed. No exchange, no replay, no nada.
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