Quick rule/etiquette question,people

[toyboy54]

Was up watching the juniors tonight(oh how easy this game is when you have youth and no fear!)
Anyway,point is....once you're on the green(in matchplay)
and putt up,you can go ahead and hole out...can't you???
Or should you mark and wait on your oppo playing his putt?
Know that you can do this in stroke play...but just had a senior moment on this point!!!???

Thanks
Jim

 

[Andy]

You must mark if your ball is closer than your opponents. Only in stroke play can you hole out.

Andy

 

[EchtLoon]

Matchplay you have to mark unless conceded.

 

[RGDave]

....once you're on the green(in matchplay)
and putt up, you can go ahead and hole out...can't you???

In Matchplay.....No.

If I was playing against a fella who tapped in without my say so, I'd help myself to the hole, thank you very much.

 

[toyboy54]

Thanks guys ,as I said ...a senior moment!!!!




Jim

 

[justhitthething]

Not 100% certain, but I thought the only penalty for playing out of turn in matchplay was the ability to ask your opponant to play the shot again without penalty. Not to claim the hole.

 

[toyboy54]

Justhitthething....are you trying to give me a headache???
Am back home and think that my first glass of wine might become the bottle!
Going to blame you(should that be THANK YOU??)
Jim

 

[justhitthething]

Sorry mate.
You settle down, enjoy your wine and Ill traul the rule book and find the answer.
Things ill do to make an impression as a newbie!

 

[muttleee]

Not 100% certain, but I thought the only penalty for playing out of turn in matchplay was the ability to ask your opponant to play the shot again without penalty. Not to claim the hole.

Yes, that's the rule. I found that out the hard way after someone took a hole off me for playing out of turn. I thought it was a fair cop at the time but only when I checked the rulebook later did I discover that I'd been hard done by. Now I carry the rulebook with me at all times.

 

[bobmac]

NEVER assume someone is right about a rule because he/she sounds confident. Hand him/her your rule book (which is always in your bag) and ask politely if they could show you where the rule is. Sneaky

 

[toyboy54]

Bobmac...as you say...SNEAKY...now then wher did I put that other bottle?O.K...don't panic ...found it!!!
Now then ,,where's the bliddy rule book?(more importatly,where's the opener?(o.k. it's a screw top top...wonderful invention......the rule book,that is!!!)
Thank you gents.now confused,hic,but will go for bobmac and
hitthething(?) Time to get confused now!
Any excuse will do on a Friday,Sat.Sun.....any day ending in a Y..hic!

 

[bobmac]

If I was playing against a fella who tapped in without my say so, I'd help myself to the hole, thank you very much.

Are you sure? Rule 10/1/c?

 

[backwoodsman]

bobmac is right to question - as are others. The worst that can happen is to be asked to replace the ball and replay in the correct order. You can't claim the hole. Rule 10-1c

 

[Herbie]

If people just got on and played this game like gents taking turns, you wouldnt get all these bloody questions?

 

[EchtLoon]

If people just got on and played this game like gents taking turns, you wouldnt get all these bloody questions?

True, but it's another of those needless rules. Why have a different rule for matchplay than strokeplay?

 

[justhitthething]

'True, but it's another of those needless rules. Why have a different rule for matchplay than strokeplay? '


Because they are 2 different games.
Strokeplay:- you are playing against the rest of the field and your 'fellow competitor's' game is irrelevant to how you play, whereas in matchplay you are playig directly against your opponant.
The order in which you play is therefore important to the pressures and tensions created.

 

[julsk10]

In the Solheim Cup last year Annika Sorenstam chipped in from off the green. Her opponent made her play it again even though she was off the green she was still closer to the hole. Not very sporting all the same.

Ps Captains day today tee off at 3.16

 

[muttleee]

In the Solheim Cup last year Annika Sorenstam chipped in from off the green.

That actually happened 9 years ago in the 2000 Solheim Cup! Time flies!

The problem arose because it was the norm in LPGA tour events for a player who's off the green to play up even if it's not officially their turn. Annika (quite reasonably) thought that would still apply in the Solheim Cup but her opponents thought otherwise.

 

[EchtLoon]

'True, but it's another of those needless rules. Why have a different rule for matchplay than strokeplay? '


Because they are 2 different games.
Strokeplay:- you are playing against the rest of the field and your 'fellow competitor's' game is irrelevant to how you play, whereas in matchplay you are playig directly against your opponant.
The order in which you play is therefore important to the pressures and tensions created.

I still don't see the need for an extra rule in a game with too many rules.

Let's face it, if you're going to tap in, it's becasue you expect to hole it anyway in matchplay, so your opponent is assuming it's dead even if he hasn't conceded.