What do the principles say about including a membership to your bag mid-round?
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My buddy is 2 up on me after six holes when he realizes he’s lacking his sand wedge. His home is subsequent to the seventh tee, and he runs contained in the storage to get the membership. I penalized him a gap and rallied to win the match, and he hasn’t stopped complaining since. What’s the precise ruling? —Michael Washburne, Alpharetta, Ga.
We’re going to imagine your buddy — assuming he’s nonetheless your buddy — remained at or beneath the 14-club restrict post-wedge. In that case, he was allowed to seize the wedge as long as he didn’t unreasonably delay play.
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Guidelines Man: When you’re a right-handed, is it authorized to hold a left-handed membership?
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 comparable as soon as occurred to Guidelines Man with a pair of identical-twin sisters on a match committee, however this isn’t the discussion board for such issues ….
Even for those who 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, if you performed once more from the teeing space, you have been really enjoying beneath stroke and distance. Earlier than the 4.1b penalty, that stroke with your personal 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 beneath 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 beneath 4.1b). And with that, Guidelines Man is off to take a nap. We’re exhausted.
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