North Mimms
Tour Winner
I wanted to cut and paste some bits from R&A Rules site to clarify some points, but it doesn't allow you to copy and paste from some areas
The Official GM Forum Rule Myths Book
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some are mixing rules with etiquette
Dellboy
Challenge Tour Pro
You can't use your putter to mark your ball, got told this yesterday.( I marked ball with toe of putter, picked ball up to clean off sand and replaced )
Chap insisted the marker had to be placed behind the ball and not connected to the player in any form.
Chap insisted the marker had to be placed behind the ball and not connected to the player in any form.
Foxholer
Blackballed
Oddly, this happened to be the 'titbit' in this week's Barry Rhodes email!.....
19th Hole Titbit - Do You Know?
That you may use the toe of your putter to mark your ball (but please do not do it!). Decision 20-1/16.
@North Mimms USGA Rules is slightly more friendly in that regard http://www.usga.org/Rule-Books/Rules-of-Golf/Rule-01/
But R&A Search works better.
Kellfire
Blackballed
This mornings round yielded a new one to me...
You must ask your opponents if you are allowed to remove loose impediments on the green.
He was told this by a 4 hcp.
You must ask your opponents if you are allowed to remove loose impediments on the green.
He was told this by a 4 hcp.
HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
I can't believe no-one has gone for;
Giving someone a yardage is advice.
Giving someone a yardage is advice.
ManinBlack
Tour Winner
If your ball is in a tree you can shake the tree to get it out. Each shake counts as a shot. A 24 handicapper told me this many years ago.
Only when you give them the correct distance :clap::thup:
Region3
Ryder Cup Winner
That is brilliant! :rofl:
North Mimms
Tour Winner
What a daft myth! It could take many shakes to dislodge the ball, but you if you deem it unplayable to get it out of the tree for one stroke!
daymond
Tour Rookie
You cannot putt out when another player's ball is in the hole
Not made up!!
Not made up!!
I tend to associate a Myth with something many believe in or is well known.
Some of these 'Myths' above sound like a one off from someone not quite the full shilling.
Some of these 'Myths' above sound like a one off from someone not quite the full shilling.
North Mimms
Tour Winner
I think to become a real Myth, you have to have been told the "rule" several times by different people
richart
Major Champion
The only one I have heard from nearly every golfer I play with is, 'one' when the ball falls off the tee.:angry:
rickg
Money List Winner
I'd marked out my nearest point of relief which was to the right of the path- (left of the path was OOB)....I'd used my 3 wood as that's what I was hitting my 2nd shot into the par 5 with.......I then marked a further club length with my driver....dropped the ball.....it was in play, and I played my shot.
Just as I'd hit it another player (from an adjacent fairway!) came over and asked me if I was in the medal to which I replied in the affirmative....he then told me I was DQ'd as my nearest point of relief was OOB and therefore wasn't entitled to a drop and should have played it off the path.........( someone had prevented him taking a drop from a similar situation the week before adn so now he was passing on his new found wisdom...
I advised him to concentrate on his own game as he was now holding up the group behind him, and told him if he wished to read the rule book when he got back in after his round, then come and find me in the bar where I would accept his snivelling apology........funnily enough I never saw him....
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the smiling assassin
Challenge Tour Pro
I'd marked out my nearest point of relief which was to the right of the path- (left of the path was OOB)....I'd used my 3 wood as that's what I was hitting my 2nd shot into the par 5 with.......I then marked a further club length with my driver....dropped the ball.....it was in play, and I played my shot.
Just as I'd hit it another player (from an adjacent fairway!) came over and asked me if I was in the medal to which I replied in the affirmative....he then told me I was DQ'd as my nearest point of relief was OOB and therefore wasn't entitled to a drop and should have played it off the path.........( someone had prevented him taking a drop from a similar situation the week before adn so now he was passing on his new found wisdom...
I advised him to concentrate on his own game as he was now holding up the group behind him, and told him if he wished to read the rule book when he got back in after his round, then come and find me in the bar where I would accept his snivelling apology........funnily enough I never saw him....
You took two club lengths relief?...
HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
The thing is, if one person has said it to you, you can bet your bottom dollar that he has told loads of others and they have passed it on in return. You may have heard it once, but within your club, there are probably a fair few playing by the myth.
I was once playing in a comp and we got to the 5th. Myself and my myth pedalling friend were on the green and our FC hit his ball into the bunker where it had come to rest on a slope against a rake. As I was waiting for the guy to reach the bunker, myth pedaler tells me to move the rake for bunker man. When I asked why he told me that if I moved the rake and the ball moved then bunker man could replace the ball without penalty, if bunker man moved it himself and the ball moved it was a penalty of two shots.
Once I'd explained to him the proper rule he said, "well that's how we always do it in the seniors"
So while maybe not a wide spread myth, I have no doubt at RAGC it was a myth followed by many, a local myth if you will. I also have no doubt that he ignored my advice for his future play.
bobmac
Major Champion
I read it as Rick used his 3 wood to measure the nearest point of relief, then used his driver to mark out the one club length
rickg
Money List Winner
Correct...
stevelev
Journeyman Pro
A ball to be lifted under the Rules may be lifted by the player, his partner or another person authorised by the player. In any such case, the player is responsible for any breach of the Rules.
The position of the ball must be marked before it is lifted under a Rule that requires it to be replaced. If it is not marked, the player incurs a penalty of one stroke and the ball must be replaced. If it is not replaced, the player incurs the general penalty for breach of this Rule but there is no additional penalty under Rule 20-1.
