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Up until 2012 there was a decision that covered this exact scenario. (14/6 in the 2010-2011 Decisions book if anyone is suffering from insomnia). The answer contains the words "such an instinctive swing in anger is not a stroke" and determines that there is no penalty unless the player actually...

In the first example, no it's one penalty stroke plus an extra one for not replacing it. Two penalty strokes in total. In your second example, yes, the player would be playing three with the ball back on the tee. Edit to clarify the ball is put back on the tee Second edit because I can't read...

A point I made elsewhere is that the ruling bodies have stated that there is an assumption that players act with integrity and honesty and therefore requirements to allow a fellow competitor to observe when a player lifts his ball to identify it or to decide whether a ball is unfit for play have...

With all this talk of the rules need to be changed etc, it's worth looking forward to 1st Jan when the rule for making a stroke at a moving ball has been removed and the situation would be dealt with under the "person stops or deflects the ball" rule. Under the new rules the player will get a...

I don't know which shot or player you are talking about here, but I did notice throughout the entire four days that occasionally the pictures and sound would get out of sync by a few seconds, presumably because they've delayed the picture by a few second but left the effects microphones live. It...

It's a one stroke penalty for moving your ball, even though it was an accident. The ball must be replaced; if you had played it from where it came to rest then it's a two stroke penalty in stroke play or loss of hole in match play. (If you're playing 4BBB match play, then only you are out of the...

Rule 1-2 only applies if there is no other rule that applies to the situation. Rule 14-5 applies to a player making a stroke at a moving ball. As Mickelson made a stroke at a moving ball rule 14-5 applies and so Rule 1-2 cannot be used.

On what basis are people suggesting he should be DQ'd? The penalty for making a stroke at a moving ball is 2 strokes and there is no provision for a DQ under that rule. He clearly made a stroke at a moving ball and so a 2 stroke penalty it is.

I don't know about round times but there have now been two one stroke penalties for time violations for different players.

The PGA Tour isn't run by the USGA or the R&A. It's run by the PGA Tour which an organisation set up by the players for the players. Nothing will be done until TV companies say enough is enough, we aren't going to show it. Then the sponsors will take their money away and the players will have...

Decision 6-2a/4 may help 6-2a/4 Handicap Stroke Claimed After Hole Conceded Q.In a handicap match, A holed out in 3. B, having a putt for a gross 4 and forgetting that he was entitled to a handicap stroke at the hole, conceded the hole to A. Before A or B played from the next teeing ground, B...

Well, the PGA Tour is run by the players for the players, so whatever they want goes.

Without seeing the situation for myself, it sounds like your opponent made excellent use of the rules. The exception doesn't say you have to make a normal stroke, just not an unnecessarily abnormal one. If such a stroke was actually possible and about the only thing he could do, then he's...

No. Decision 4-4a/8 Retrieving Another Player's Lost Club Q.A player carrying 14 clubs found another player's club on the course. He picked up the lost club, put it in his bag but did not use it, and handed it in at the pro shop when the round was completed. Was the player in breach of Rule...

Obviously Duncan can speak for his own club's concerns, but I think that if my club adopts the new Local Rule allowing a drop for a ball that is lost or OOB, we will have to cut the fairway differently on one hole to prevent players from gaining what may be too much of an advantage over a S&D...