markgs
Tour Rookie
If you hit the ball on your practice swing on the tee can you replace it under no penalty or is it in play?
Assuming that the player has not already had an air-shot, in which case the ball is already in play and there is a 1-shot penalty and the ball must be replaced.
Could he not just play the ball as it lies and be playing 2nd shot???Assuming that the player has not already had an air-shot, in which case the ball is already in play and there is a 1-shot penalty and the ball must be replaced.
Could he not just play the ball as it lies and be playing 2nd shot???
No.
In this circumstance the airshot would be 1 shot, the practice swing is not a shot so it's a penalty under the ball at rest moved rule - which requires the ball to be replaced. Not to do so would be playing from a wrong place. I suppose you could try to pretend the practice swing was a proper shot - but even if you got away with it, you'd be playing it 3 as it lies.
It's an airshot (ball now in play) followed by a practice swing that knocks the ball off the teeIf it was an air shot surely the ball hasn't moved so how can you replace a ball that's not moved?
It's an airshot (ball now in play) followed by a practice swing that knocks the ball off the tee
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Always struck me as quite a misnomer!
Always struck me as quite a misnomer!