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If you see a fellow competitor break the rules, most likely through now knowing the rule. Do you pull them up an try and penalise them? Let it go? Or have a quiet word?
If you see a FC break the rules you call them on it - what they do afterwards is up to them, but at least they cannot claim ignorance and you cannot say you did nothing. If nothing else, the aim is to enlighten and educate, but ultimately the onus lies with the player in question who made the breach.
You cannot penalize a fellow player. Tell him what you saw. If you are his marker and he does not add the penalty refuse to sign the card until it is correct. If you are not and he turns it in with the wrong score, tell the committee.If you see a fellow competitor break the rules, most likely through now knowing the rule. Do you pull them up an try and penalise them? Let it go? Or have a quiet word?
I'd let it go and tell him for next timeFc hits a great chip that roles up and into the hole. But it wedges between hole and flag and is not holed out. Before can say anything he leans down, picks it up. Do you make him replace it or let it go?
Let it go and then key CHEAT into his car bonnet.Fc hits a great chip that roles up and into the hole. But it wedges between hole and flag and is not holed out. Before can say anything he leans down, picks it up. Do you make him replace it or let it go?
I started a similar thread a few weeks ago. Since then, I make a point of pointing out the transgressions. They occur infrequently and I believe, are seldom due to ignorance. Last week, in a roll up two from three, I saw one of our team slyly drop a ball when he could not find his own. I simply asked him to pick it up. These roll ups have (small) cash prizes. If I was playing cards with friends no-one would ignore cheating. It should be the same when paying golf.
I started a similar thread a few weeks ago. Since then, I make a point of pointing out the transgressions. They occur infrequently and I believe, are seldom due to ignorance. Last week, in a roll up two from three, I saw one of our team slyly drop a ball when he could not find his own. I simply asked him to pick it up. These roll ups have (small) cash prizes. If I was playing cards with friends no-one would ignore cheating. It should be the same when paying golf.
i am not talking about blatent cheating, rather inadvertantly breaking the rules. Today for example FCs ball landed on a path and he took a free drop but he was still stood on the path.
such an example is the easiest to deal with all round.
until he's made a stroke at the ball there is no penalty, either direct or indirect, in explaining that he would need to re-drop and why.
phrasing such discussions as a soft question will normally create the right environment - " I think you have to drop again so that you are clear of the path you took relief from?" being an example.
raising it later in a competition environment is fraught with dangers -
doing so before he returns his card would mean he gets a penalty that could have been avoided
after returning the card this will be DQ for returning a wrong score by not including that penalty - double whammy
after the competition closed would result in no penalty to him but you would be DQ
Not trying to suggest that it's always simple - I know this one's an easy one, and that most seem extremely difficult at the time.