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[MashieNiblick]

Colin says it for me in post #18. And yes there was a typo in mine - should have read 6-6d.
And i agree with Colin's view that the exception 6-6d still applies despite the final sentence of the exception.

The exception to 6-6d covers situations where a player returns a score too low because he did not know he had breached a rule and therefore did not know he had to add a penalty. In stableford he does not add a penalty. He has to advise the committee that a breach has occurred, so that they can apply the penalty. If he does not know there's been a breach, how can he advise them? Therefore how can it be equitable to still require disqualification?

I am of the opinion that the final sentence of exception 6-6d refers to those situations where the original (but unknown) breach of a rule carries a penalty of disqualification - playing from outside the teeing ground perhaps. For instance, a player gets a ball into a hole in five shots but started from outside the teeing ground. He didn't know he'd committed a breach, so recorded a 5 without adding the required 2 stroke penalty. But, as he didn't know he'd committed a breach, he also did not correct the mistake and play from within the teeing ground - which carries a disqualification. The final sentence of the exception means he is still disqualified - and his score not changed up to a 9 (5 plus 2 penalty plus 2 additional penalty)

That is really nicely summarised. Thank you.

If I have it right, in essence the exception means if you didn't know there was a penalty you don't get DQ'd for a wrong score, just get the original penalty plus an additional penalty, unless the original penalty is DQ, in which case that still applies, which makes perfect sense.

 

[Colin L]

I am of the opinion that the final sentence of exception 6-6d refers to those situations where the original (but unknown) breach of a rule carries a penalty of disqualification - playing from outside the teeing ground perhaps.

Yes, that’s how I see it. I hope that’s how it’s confirmed when we get the official word!