Default Penalty Area Marking

[mikejohnchapman]

I was doing a rules quiz recently and one question related to the default marking of a penalty area. The question was "if a penalty area is not marked is it assumed to be a yellow or red penalty area?" Frustratingly the results didn't include any details so I don't know if I guessed correctly (Yellow). Tried to look in the rules / definitions but couldn't find an answer. Any help out there appreciated!

 

[jim8flog]

My question would be what type of penalty area is it .

Penalty areas can now be any area seems fit to designate as one e.g. a copse of trees they no longer have to be water courses.

 

[Oldbutwise]

I was doing a rules quiz recently and one question related to the default marking of a penalty area. The question was "if a penalty area is not marked is it assumed to be a yellow or red penalty area?" Frustratingly the results didn't include any details so I don't know if I guessed correctly (Yellow). Tried to look in the rules / definitions but couldn't find an answer. Any help out there appreciated!

Penalty Areas Have a read of C(4). Red is recommended.

 

[Steven Rules]

Tried to look in the rules / definitions but couldn't find an answer.

I am not sure how you missed this in the Definition of Penalty Area: If the colour of a penalty area has not been marked or indicated by the Committee, it is treated as a red penalty area.

 

[Steven Rules]

My question would be what type of penalty area is it .

Penalty areas can now be any area seems fit to designate as one e.g. a copse of trees they no longer have to be water courses.

Very true, but it is not clear to me what that has to do with the original question in #1.

 

[rulie]

What makes one think that a copse of trees, or any other part of the course, is a penalty area?
Any area has to meet the definition of a penalty area first, before it can be red or yellow.
By definition, a penalty area is
- any body of water on the course (whether or not marked by the Committee), including a sea, lake, pond, river, ditch, surface drainage ditch or other open watercourse (even if not containing water), and
- any other part of the course the Committee defines as a penalty area.

 

[mikejohnchapman]

I am not sure how you missed this in the Definition of Penalty Area: If the colour of a penalty area has not been marked or indicated by the Committee, it is treated as a red penalty area.

Well that's embarrassing!

Thanks for pointing it out for me - won't forget that in future.

 

[jim8flog]

Very true, but it is not clear to me what that has to do with the original question in #1.

Shows a poorly thought out question in the first instance.

 

[doublebogey7]

Shows a poorly thought out question in the first instance.

I agree, the question should have referred to a body of water not to a penalty area. Only an unmarked body of water can be assumed to be a PA (Red). Any other PA must be marked by the committee (either yellow or red).

 

[backwoodsman]

I agree, the question should have referred to a body of water not to a penalty area. Only an unmarked body of water can be assumed to be a PA (Red). Any other PA must be marked defined by the committee (either yellow or red).

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[backwoodsman]

Not sure the question was poorly phrased.

It could happen, although IMO it would be unusual, for a Committee to go to the trouble of defining a "non-water" PA without saying whether it should be red or yellow