Tee shot rebounds back onto the same teeing area

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As I read the rules, if your tee shot were to rebound off say, the forward tee markers (I nearly called them ladies tee markers) and comes to rest on the teeing area just played from, I am in my rights to pick it up and re-tee it?
 
tobybarker said:
As I read the rules, if your tee shot were to rebound off say, the forward tee markers (I nearly called them ladies tee markers) and comes to rest on the teeing area just played from, I am in my rights to pick it up and re-tee it?
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Your bedtime reading is Rule 6.2.
 
Likely doesn't need saying for forumers but for the casual onlookers...

By having the option to re-tee in the 'teeing area' we're talking about a ball returning to the defined rectangular space between the tee markers and extending 2 clublengths behind... not the whole area of prepared ground often casually referred to as teeing area/tee box or any other descriptor
 
Slab said:
Likely doesn't need saying for forumers but for the casual onlookers...

By having the option to re-tee in the 'teeing area' we're talking about a ball returning to the defined rectangular space between the tee markers and extending 2 clublengths behind... not the whole area of prepared ground often casually referred to as teeing area/tee box or any other descriptor
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This forumer appreciates this clarification, on a rule that I didn't know existed either :)
 
This was one rule I got to use literally in the first week of the 2019 rules, my ball having fallen off the tee just when the club head was within a few inches of hitting it.
 
Swango1980 said:
I bet you felt quite cocky when you told the people in your group you knew that rule :)
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Most of my mates know that I know the rules very well. I was responsible for ensuring they were well publicised at the club. I was just proud with all the dozens of changes I remembered that one. I did forget one straight away and picked up after a double hit in the first stableford comp of the year.
 
jim8flog said:
Most of my mates know that I know the rules very well. I was responsible for ensuring they were well publicised at the club. I was just proud with all the dozens of changes I remembered that one. I did forget one straight away and picked up after a double hit in the first stableford comp of the year.
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Yeah, I was just having a laugh at the picture of you feeling really proud of yourself, moments after hitting a horror tee shot :p
 
Swango1980 said:
Yeah, I was just having a laugh at the picture of you feeling really proud of yourself, moments after hitting a horror tee shot :p
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You can have a karma laugh at my extrication from whins beside our 10th tee one day. Approach shot pushed into the whin bush. Lucky to find it but unplayable. But cleverclogs here, our rules-savvy hero saw the inexpensive way out A penalty drop would leave me still blocked out by the bush but next to a ball washer. Free relief from that would take me on to the tee with a clear line to the hole. Over a bunker, mind you, but no trouble to a man of my calibre, I thought. With focus, concentration and consummate skill I could easily wedge over the bunker to a comfortable putting position. Bunker? What bunker? And all went to plan. A clean strike and my ball was climbing effortlessly on a trajectory that would drop it softly on the green just below the hole.

It was at the apex of its flight and of my smug satisfaction that the ball hit the bough of the tree that overhangs that bunker and went into vertical descent to plug in the sand. It is a mature tree; it was there when I joined the club nearly 40 years ago; it is a highly visible and no doubt visually pleasing tree; but at the crucial moment I didn't even see it. To add to my misery and the vocal amusement of my friends, I took two to get out of the bunker.
 
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rulefan said:
If at any time your ball finishes in the teeing area (for that hole) you may play it as it lies, play from the ground or play from a tee within the teeing area.
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Does that include a ball that ricochets from a tree to an area behind the Teeing area, and I take a wedge to chip it into the Teeing Area? Source/Rule?
 
Scaredycat said:
Does that include a ball that ricochets from a tree to an area behind the Teeing area, and I take a wedge to chip it into the Teeing Area? Source/Rule?
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Yes. Rule 6.2.

The teeing area Rules apply whenever a player is required or allowed to play a ball from the teeing area. This includes when the player is starting play of the hole, the player will play again from the teeing area under a Rule, or (and this is the one relevant to your scenario) the player’s ball is in play in the teeing area after a stroke or after the player has taken relief.

If the player’s ball in play is in the teeing area after a stroke, the player may lift or move the ball without penalty, and play that ball or another ball from anywhere in the teeing area from a tee or the ground, including playing the ball as it lies.
 
Steven Rules said:
Yes. Rule 6.2.

The teeing area Rules apply whenever a player is required or allowed to play a ball from the teeing area. This includes when the player is starting play of the hole, the player will play again from the teeing area under a Rule, or (and this is the one relevant to your scenario) the player’s ball is in play in the teeing area after a stroke or after the player has taken relief.

If the player’s ball in play is in the teeing area after a stroke, the player may lift or move the ball without penalty, and play that ball or another ball from anywhere in the teeing area from a tee or the ground, including playing the ball as it lies.
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Now I never knew that….especially this..well I don’t think I did, and if I did then I’ve forgotten…it happens…with time and…🤔
 
Can I ask, is that any teeing area no matter if different from the hole you are playing and if different colour tees from the one you are playing
 
anotherdouble said:
Can I ask, is that any teeing area no matter if different from the hole you are playing and if different colour tees from the one you are playing
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Definition of Teeing area

"The area the player must play from in starting the hole they are playing.
The teeing area is a rectangle that is two club-lengthsdeep where:
  • The front edge is defined by the line between the forward-most points of two tee-markers set by the Committee, and
  • The side edges are defined by the lines back from the outside points of the tee-markers.
The teeing area is one of the five defined areas of the course.All other teeing locations on the course (whether on the same hole or any other hole) are part of the general area."

I have put the last sentence in bold which covers your question.
 
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