ClubLand Stories October 26 - Blakey Rules Podcast Episode 142

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BRQOTW 141 - Your caddie can mark, lift, clean and replace your ball on the putting green without needing permission.

• Once your ball is marked and lifted, it "owns the spot". If wind moves it, you must replace it on the original spot.

• If the ball will not stay on the spot after being replaced, try again. If it still will not stay, find the nearest spot where it will remain at rest.

• Trying the original spot a third time is acceptable because it is the nearest spot to the original spot.

• No penalty applies.

Rules question of the episode - ERQ - Episode Rules Question

ClubLand Stories

• Flag on the cart

• Players in a four-ball event claim a win under an incorrect ruling, leave, and then lie about the facts.

• Players forgetting what the Terms of Competition say about handicap adjustment (75%) and playing off their normal handicaps in a match

• Structure of a club championship - best 3 out of 4

• Local Rule for powerlines off the course, parallel to play but located in the rough

• Playing an individual stableford round combined with a 2 person aggregate stableford competition

• Three common unauthorised local rules - free drop from tree roots unless located within 2 club-lengths of trees, AND free relief from divots, AND lift, rake, and replace in bunkers

• Are competitors allowed to search for their opponents ball

• If a match goes to extra holes, do the players use the same handicap strokes?

• If a man is playing a woman in a match, and the man plays a par 4, and the woman plays the same hole as a par 5, how is the result calculated?

• Can you put a stake in a bunker to make it GUR whilst staff are working on it?

• Ball in GUR and also has access to preferred lie

• No caddies allowed within 20 metres of player, disqualification after the results are announced

• Foursome partner takes free replay for ball hitting sign

• Free replay for hitting rake holder

• Tree branch being moved by wind keeps moving ball. Ball replaced and still gets moved

• Making a local rule that restricts who the marker is, not someone sharing the same cart

• Partner hits player’s ball with follow-through

• Opponent isn’t happy that they can’t win a hole if they are giving shots and the other person birdies a par 3

Debate a subjective Rule/ruling

• Flagstick - deliberate vs accidental

• A player stands next to the flagstick, and watches a ball hit the flagstick that they are not holding, and the ball goes in the hole.