You are wrong. There's no need for a backswing if/when you start sufficiently behind the ball. And it was a stab - abbreviated by the clubhead hitting the ground.
Unfortunate certainly, but against the rules means a penalty - fwiw, reflecting real life! It would have made sense if he had asked for a ruling on the legality of the shot he was proposing, An RO would have, presumably, told him that it was against the Rules. He could have then simply changed his stance so that the shot was legit.
Post 732?
Did he actually ask that specific question though? And phrased correctly.
I don't know in all honesty. I just saw the clip of the shot, not everything that went with it. It's lucky that Frittelli wasn't at the business end of the comp.
Still cost him some cash - fortunately not a (relatively) huge amount andhe doesn't seem to be struggling.
Golf is a stupid game. Chasing a little white ball around a field with a stick and then going on a forum to complain about how badly you chased the little white ball.
I don't agree that it was against the rules, I don't see how it CAN be against the rules - it's such an unorthodox shot it's impossible that it would ever have been considered when the rules were written. As said earlier, the rule he's supposed to have infringed was written to block a certain style of putting, not a method of whacking it out of a tree for God's sake. To apply that rule to that shot is nothing short of petty and anal.
But that's the Rule! Little different to accidentally moving your ball during a search imo. Certainly unfortunate though.
Didn't think this was a penalty anymore...so....
Surely if it's during a search it wouldn't be visible
Surely if it's during a search it wouldn't be visible
Good point. Forgotten that. I never lose 'em in findable places; just water!
