Example of symbols: "USCA" indicates decision by the United States Coif Association. "R & A" indicates decision by the Royal and Ancient Coif Club of St. Andrews, Scotland. "56-1" means the first decision issued in 1956. "D" means definition. "R. 37-7" refers to Section 7 of Rule 37 in the 1956 Rules of .

Player Must Drop It is the purpose of rule 32-la to offer Outside Ground Under Repair relief from ground under repair, not to permit a player simply to play from another USGA 56-9 place in ground under repair. R. 32-la Q.: On the Thunderbird course at Palm Teeing When Replaying Springs, Cal., there is a swale on the ninth From Teeing Ground hole which has a sign posted at it, "Ground Under Repair—Drop Back". USGA 56-16 In my game there recently, the ball of R. 29-la one of the members was in the swale, in a Q.l : A player and plays a stroke muddy spot, and since he was a short hit­ from a teeing ground but misses the ball, ter, he wanted to drop back of the muddy leaving it on the . With his next stroke spot onto a grassy spot in the swale, but his he hits the ball out of bounds. Can he opponent contended that he could not do now tee and play his fourth stroke any­ that but had to drop some ten or fifteen where in the teeing ground, or must he yards back so that his ball would be drop­ drop a ball as near as possible to the spot ped out of the swale and on the regular where the original ball was teed up? fairway. A.l : He may tee his ball and must Question by: MALCOLM CRAVENS play his next stroke anywhere within the San Francisco, Cal. teeing ground, in accordance with Rule A.: If the player did not choose to play 29-la. the ball as it lay, his only recourse without Q.2: Would the same privilege apply was to drop his ball as near as had the original ball fallen off the tee at possible to the spot where it lay, but not the first stroke but not rolled outside of nearer the hole, on ground which avoided the teeing ground? the ground under repair, i.e., on ground A.2: Yes, under Rule 29-la. outside the limits of the ground under Questions by: J. E. CRANE repair. Ashiya Shi, Japan

22 USCA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: JULY, ]956 Flagstick Attended petitor would incur a penalty of two by Player's Side strokes under Rule 34-2, however, if the R. 34-1, 2; 37-2 ball struck the flagstick when it was at­ USGA 56-17 tended by the or if it struck him Q.l : Would the player in or his clubs or other equipment, whether be penalized if his caddie ran up and or not the caddie had been instructed to pulled the flagstick while the ball was in attend the flagstick. motion if the caddie had been instructed Questions by: WARREN ORLICK to attend the flagstick? Also, if the caddie Orchard Lake, Mich. had not been instructed to attend the flagstick. Original Ball "Lost" A.l : No, in both cases, assuming that when Second Put in Play the ball did not strike the flagstick or the USGA 56-18 caddie. Rule 34-1 gives the player playing R. 23-3, 29-1 the stroke sole control of the flagstick, and Q.: Pla yer hits his tee shot in the rough. he may have it attended, removed or not He looked for the ball a reasonable length as he chooses. The player is also presumed of time and did not find it. He went back to control members of his side, including to the tee and hit another ball, without his caddie; see Rule 37-2. declaring the ball lost. The other competi­ Q.2: Would the player in match play tors in his group claim he did not look be penalized only if the flagstick, clubs, for the ball the full five minutes. After or other equipment were struck while his hitting the second ball, his first ball was caddie pulled the flagstick while the ball found. He picked up his second ball and was in motion regardless of instructions played out the hole with his first ball. to attend or not attend the flagstick? The tournament was at . A.2: Yes. He would lose the hole under Question by: HAROLD OATMAN Rule 34-2. (A player always incurs the Norfolk, Va. relative penalty for any breach of rule by A.: The player abandoned his original his caddie; see Rule 37-2.) ball, as lost, when he put a second ball Q.3: Would the player in stroke play into play under Rule 29-1; and he had be penalized if his caddie ran up and no basis under the Rules for subsequently pulled the flagstick while his ball was in picking up his ball in play and playing motion on the putting surface if the cad­ out the hole with his original ball. die had not been instructed to attend or Unless the player proceeded as stipu­ not attend the flagstick? lated in Rule 23-3 in stroke play, replac­ A.3: No. See Answer 1 above. ing his ball in play (the second ball) Q.4: Would the player in stroke play under penalty of two strokes and com­ be penalized if he had instructed his caddie pleting the hole with it, he incurred a penalty of disqualification. not to run up and pull the flagstick while the ball was in motion? Would the player only be penalized if the ball struck the Provisional Ball's Status flagstick, clubs, or other equipment of his Under Water Clause caddie, whether he was instructed or not USGA 56-19 instructed to pull the flagstick while the R. 30-la ball was in motion? Q.: Regarding Rule 30, let us assume A.4: A competitor in stroke play would that it is the tee shot which comes to rest not incur penalty solely because his cad­ in a spot which might conceivably be out die attended the flagstick while the ball of bounds, lost, unplayable or in a water was in motion after the competitor had hazard. It is stated in advance that a pro­ instructed him not to do so. The com­ visional ball is being played, but it will USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: JULY. 1956 23 not apply if the ball is found in a water down again, settling on the face of the hazard. club which was still poised in the air. If the ball is subsequently found to be The player had naturally dug deeply to get in a water hazard, we have the following the ball out of the hole and the wet sand differences in opinion: glued the ball to the club. A says that the ball must either be What do you do with the ball? I sup- played as it lies or proceed under Rule pose the penalty would be the same as 33-2 or 3. The provisional ball may not Rule 19-2. be played since it was stated in advance Question by: MRS. S. A. PETERS, JR. that it would not apply to a ball found Arcata, Cal. in a water hazard. A.: On the assumption that the player B says that the ball may be played as had complet,ed his stroke, he is considered it lies or in accordance with the provisions to have stopped his own ball and to have set forth in Rule 33 and, in addition, may incurred a penalty of loss of hole in match be declared unplayable; whereupon the play under Rule 26-2a or two strokes in provisional ball must be played and the stroke play under Rule 26-3a. option to proceed under Rule 29-2b does However, if the circumstance was such not exist. that it was considered the player had C says that the ball may be played as struck the ball twice, he incurred a penalty it lies, in accordance with Rule 33, or as stroke under Rule 19-2. provided in Rule 29-2a and 2b, since it The ball lodged in a thing moving, was stated in advance that the provisional within the meaning of Rule 26-1b, and ball was not to apply to a ball found in a in proceeding under Rules 26-3a and 19-2 water hazard and that the option pro- the player was required to drop it as near hibited in Rule 30-4 applies only to the as possible to the spot beneath the posi- ball found unplayable, but not in the tion of the club when the ball adhered wa ter hazard. to it, without further penalty. Question by: MRS. EDWARD SCHULTZ Oak Park, Ill. Hitting Opponent's Ball A.: A is correct. When a player exer- From Hazard cises the privilege granted to him under USGA 56-22 Rule 30-la by stating that a provisional R. 21-2, 27-2a ball he is playing will not apply if his Q.: What is the penalty, if any, when original ball is in a water hazard, he must a player plays his opponent's ball, through abide by that statement. If the original error, from a hazard in match play? Does ball is, in fact, subsequently found in a Rule 21-2 or Rule 27-2a govern? water hazard, the provisional ball cannot A.: Rule 21-2 governs, and there is be put into play. The player must play no penalty. The player must be consid- it as it lies or proceed under Rule 33-2 ered only to have played a wrong baIl in or 3. a hazard, but not to have touched or Ball Adhering moved his opponent's ball within the meaning of Rule 27-2a. Rule 23-1 ex- to Club after Stroke pressly forbids a player from lifting his USGA 56-20 ball for identification in a hazard and R. 19-2, 26-1 b thus, in some situations, he would not be Q.: An approach shot to the gre,en fell able to protect himself. short and landed in an unusually large A player whose ball is so played, how- hole in the sand trap next to the bank of ever, must drop the ball as near as pos- the trap. The player executed his next sible to the spot from which it was played shot properly and the ball went straight in accordance with the principles of Rule up in the air nicely~ only to come straight 27 -2a.

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