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No need for that. Playing the ball as it lies is the basic requirement which applies everywhere and all the time except where the...

One stroke as you say. My mistake.

He what? Walked up to his ball, dropped another one, played it and called it a provisional? That's crazy. You can only play a...

That's one of the longstanding rules myths. I remember some years ago a friend in a friendly match tried to claim the hole from me on...

Yes it applies but see Rule 18.3b which wjemather referenced above. "I'll play another" isn't clear.. It could equally mean I'll play...

His second ball was unarguably his ball in play if he only said "I'll play another" and those who thought that was enough should learn...

Thanks for that. 👍. Typical of me: give me two possibilities and I'l pick the wrong one.

Swango asked a question and I gave a factual answer which said nothing about cheating. Errors in declaring handicaps can be entirely...

It is a player's responsibility to protect his own interests and it is obviously in his interest to make sure his opponent doesn't get...

Really? Seems to me someone has failed to read the whole of 20.1b(3) Ruling Request Made After Result of Match Is Final. When a player...

It very easy to look up your opponents' handicaps in advance and to check first thing on the morning of a match in case of any changes.

Thanks Steven. That's hugely bureaucratic and I'm not sure why it should be necessary. The result is, for example, X won 3 & 2. What...

I don't follow that - probably because I don't know what a "score sheet" for match play is.

And nobody realised it until it was too late? I'm not at the moment seeing any difference between this situation and the breach of any...

As a general piece of information on handicaps (which makes no difference to the situation described by dazzler), you will see from...