Bending the rules

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Would anyone really do that, go hunting for your ball so you have to hack it from the rubbish? I'd be put right off my pork pie if someone tried to do that, there'd be no more gimmes I assure you

I might well go looking for an opponents ball in an important match - especially if he's creamed his provisional down the middle and I am in trouble off the tee. I'd just say 'I think I'll go have a wee look for your ball - just in case it's sitting there in the open smiling'. But I wouldn't make a massive effort looking.

 

[chrisd]

Would anyone really do that, go hunting for your ball so you have to hack it from the rubbish? I'd be put right off my pork pie if someone tried to do that, there'd be no more gimmes I assure you

The last hole in the final of a Matchplay, all square,and my playing partner is either in the deep cack playing 2 with little hope of a decent recovery or miles up the middle of the fairway and playing 4 - yes, I'd look for his ball!

 

[Keeno]

I wouldn't if they were 3 off the tee, I would be trying to make a par or a bogey to win the match.

They're already under pressure, so keep the heat on.

 

[drdel]

^^^^ especially on a Par 3 !

 

[Three]

If they don't want to look for their original, you can always have a wander over to where it might be.

If you see it, nothing forcing you to say anything if it's lying in a good place and they can't be bothered to look for it.

 

[guest100718]

I explained to a friend that he could this rather than go and hack from knee length rough. In a drawn comp a rules guru pulled him up and said it wasmt allowed. It put him off his stride.

 

[trevor]

Has anyone ever seen the situation where one has to run up the fairway to play the third shot to hit it before his FC can go and find / look for the first ball?

 

[Crow]

Has anyone ever seen the situation where one has to run up the fairway to play the third shot to hit it before his FC can go and find / look for the first ball?

You'd also have to hope that you're not ahead of your opponents ball or I'm guessing that they could also call your third shot back for playing out of turn.

 

[Region3]

You'd also have to hope that you're not ahead of your opponents ball or I'm guessing that they could also call your third shot back for playing out of turn.

They could call it back, but when you hit it (even out of turn) it becomes the ball in play.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

How has he bent the rules? He did it by the letter so no issue

 

[ColchesterFC]

Should probably rename the thread "Knowing the rules" instead of Bending the rules.