Touching the sand

[HomerJSimpson]

If I was the bloke in the OP I would have been inserting the sand iron somewhere far more expressive with the guy trying to dock me an extra 2 shots. It just shows that there are loads of idiots that think they know the rules and where and how to interpet them but only succeed in hacking everyone off and looking foolish.

Del if I was you I'd wait until the bar is busy and then tell this idiout that he was completely wrong and wait for him to try and justify his answer. Try and get hold of the other guy too and say you'll mark a card for him as I feel pretty sorry for the bloke (but can't condone walking in!!!)

 

[forefortheday]

I'm sure a certain Mr Ellwood fell into a bunker recently in the Rules quiz?

No penalty was the answer i'm sure, you aren't exactly testing the bounce on your wedge by stopping yourself falling are you?

The rules of golf do allow for some common sense (although the penalty for dropping out of a flooded bunker makes me grind my teeth) it's a shame it doesn't allow for know it alls!

 

[muttleee]

There was a guy on the Senior PGA tour a while back who hit his ball into a water hazard but was still able to play it because it was still on the bank at the edge of the lake. He hit across the lake and the ball finished up inside the hazard again, but still playable. The player used his club as a stick to help him up the bank and if I remember rightly he was penalised for grounding his club in a hazard. :/ Seemed a bit rough, that.

 

[backwoodsman]

I just wondered if Bobmac had heard about the American pro who hit it from a fairway bunker into a greenside bunker. Without thinking he raked the sand with his club and was penalised by the ref. What would happen in club golf if you knocked it out of one bunker into another. You then rake the trap and knock your ball back into the first bunker from the bunker on the other side of the green?

They changed the rule after that event, he wouldn't be penalised now.

Correct - exception 3 to rule 13-4 was brought in. But the "Cink anomaly" still persists (raking a bunker after standing in it to play a ball just outside it and shot lands in another bunker).