What do the principles say about carrying a lefty membership as a right-hander?
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Is it OK to hold 13 right-handed golf equipment and one left-handed membership? This might work for me quite than flipping over a membership to get out of powerful conditions. –Paul Dziengelewski, Westfield, Mass.
Knock your self out, Paul.
There isn’t a rule relating to the make-up of a set, solely that you’ve got 14 golf equipment or fewer.
Seven lefty, seven righty? Positive. Fourteen putters? Have at it. As the children prefer to say, you do you.
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Guidelines Man: Is it authorized to label my golf equipment with my yardages?
In a stroke-play competitors, Participant A inadvertently pulls Participant B’s driver out of B’s bag and makes a stroke from the teeing space. Realizing the error, A fingers the membership to B and declares it out of play, then replays the stroke with his personal driver. He abandons the primary ball and winds up making a 5 with the second ball. What’s his rating for the outlet? —Johnny Williams, Tampa Bay, Fla.
One thing related as soon as occurred to Guidelines Man with a pair of identical-twin sisters on a event committee, however this isn’t the discussion board for such issues ….
Even if you happen to had lower than 14 golf equipment, you’re not allowed to make use of a membership chosen for play by one other participant on the course. In essence, you get two penalty strokes for the breach of Rule 4.1b.
Then, once you performed once more from the teeing space, you have been really enjoying underneath stroke and distance. Earlier than the 4.1b penalty, that stroke with your individual driver was really your third shot, plus no matter else it took to get the ball into the outlet, plus two extra for the 4.1b penalty.
To evaluation: 1 (stroke with fallacious membership); 2 (penalty stroke underneath stroke and distance); 3 (stroke with appropriate membership from teeing space); 4, 5, 6, 7 (4 extra strokes to finish the outlet); 8, 9 (penalty strokes underneath 4.1b). And with that, Guidelines Man is off to take a nap. We’re exhausted.
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