Not allowed to play in a comp , deemed to have played the course

[JCW]

Many years ago I wanted to play in a medal, I wanted to take out a late card but there was no one around to partner me , so waited for up to an hour and still no one so tee it up on the 1st to have a little knock and hit my 1st down the middle , just then two guys I have played with in the past turned up , so we check in with the pro and I say I already hit a tee shot , but will start again , I was told as I already played the course this was not allowed , does this rule still stand today or was the pro wrong , anyone had any experiences like this ?

 

[Imurg]

Still stands as far as I'm aware....

 

[the_coach]

Many years ago I wanted to play in a medal, I wanted to take out a late card but there was no one around to partner me , so waited for up to an hour and still no one so tee it up on the 1st to have a little knock and hit my 1st down the middle , just then two guys I have played with in the past turned up , so we check in with the pro and I say I already hit a tee shot , but will start again , I was told as I already played the course this was not allowed , does this rule still stand today or was the pro wrong , anyone had any experiences like this ?

Yes, you not allowed to have a practice stroke (ie, hitting a ball: different from a practice swing) on any part of the course played in that competition (stroke play). See Rule 7.

 

[pbrown7582]

still stands for strokeplay comps but you can play the course prior to matchplay.

 

[Fish]

We can't even play any holes on our new Par3 course to warm up as they say its 'an integral part of the course'!

 

[G1BB0]

its a seperate course though isnt it Robin? seems a bit OTT to me but then again golf can be like that

 

[rosecott]

We can't even play any holes on our new Par3 course to warm up as they say its 'an integral part of the course'!

Has your committee considered rule 7-1b which clearly forbids practice on the competition course.

 

[Imurg]

We can't even play any holes on our new Par3 course to warm up as they say its 'an integral part of the course'!

If you hit onto the par 3 course from the main course, are you OB?
If so, surely it can't be part of that course.......?

 

[Colin L]

Many years ago I wanted to play in a medal, I wanted to take out a late card but there was no one around to partner me , so waited for up to an hour and still no one so tee it up on the 1st to have a little knock and hit my 1st down the middle , just then two guys I have played with in the past turned up , so we check in with the pro and I say I already hit a tee shot , but will start again , I was told as I already played the course this was not allowed , does this rule still stand today or was the pro wrong , anyone had any experiences like this ?

The pro might have considered allowing you to play on the basis that the Committee is authorised to waive the penalty of disqualification under Rule 33-7 where a player has made only one practice stroke on the competition course. See Decision 7-1b/1. That would mean you would have played on the understanding that you would be disqualified but that there was still a chance that the Committee might waive the DQ.

http://www.usga.org/Rule-Books/Rules-of-Golf/Decision-07/#d7-1b-1

 

[Fish]

If you hit onto the par 3 course from the main course, are you OB?
If so, surely it can't be part of that course.......?

We have no internal OOB hence possibly why the ruling? The only area the par3 could be reached from the main course would be with a very long exceptional slice from the 9th tee and that would have to be helped with a severe wind, or, a wicked sherman tank on a 2nd shot up the 9th fairway but again, with so many pines in-between, very unlikely it could reach!

 

[Colin L]

We can't even play any holes on our new Par3 course to warm up as they say its 'an integral part of the course'!

The Committee is required to define the course. (Rule 33-2). Is your Committee bizarrely defining the boundaries of your main course as incorporating the whole ground on which your Par 3 is situated? If so, then you do have the absurd situation in which you cannot play anywhere within those boundaries on the day of a competition on your main course. (That still leaves out what the boundaries of your Par 3 are!). There is a provision in Rule 7 to permit play on the course on the day of a competition or on specified parts of the course, so I suppose it could specify the par 3 part of the main course (it gets dafter as you say it) as an area on which play is permitted, but how overly complicated is that when .......

........ more obviously, it could and arguably should define the boundaries of your main course and your Par 3 course as separate entities. Then you can play on the Par 3 course on the day of a competition held on the main course and vice versa.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

From this thread - how did I find myself on a VBulletin(?) page that seemed to contain all the threads on here? Definately not this GM Forum pages.

 

[rosecott]

From this thread - how did I find myself on a VBulletin(?) page that seemed to contain all the threads on here? Definately not this GM Forum pages.

Think you've just gone Out of Bounds.

 

[davidy233]

We have no internal OOB hence possibly why the ruling? The only area the par3 could be reached from the main course would be with a very long exceptional slice from the 9th tee and that would have to be helped with a severe wind, or, a wicked sherman tank on a 2nd shot up the 9th fairway but again, with so many pines in-between, very unlikely it could reach!

We've got two courses right next to each other - If I sliced my tee shot on the first hole of the Ashludie Course I'd be playing my second from on the Medal course - wouldn't have though that would rule me out from playing a comp on the Medal later in the day though