Rule of the Week (September 11 to 15)

Rule of the Week

Week of September 11 to 15, 2017

Rule for Ball Dropped a Third Time When Placement Required After Second Drop

Question:

A player dropped his ball twice under a Rule and each time the ball rolled nearer the hole. He then dropped a third time instead of placing it as required by Rule 20-2c. What is the ruling?

Answer:

Before making a stroke, the player may lift the ball and place it as prescribed in Rule 20-2c, without penalty (Rule 20-6). If he/she fails to do so and plays the ball, the player has played from a wrong place and has dropped the ball when it should have been place. The player incurs a penalty of loss of hole in match play or two strokes in stroke place for playing from the wrong place (Rule 20-2c and Rule 20-7). There is no additional penalty in stroke play for dropping the ball when Rule 20-2c required it to be placed (see Note 3 to Rule 20-7c)

-Note 3 to Rule 20-7c-

If a player incurs a penalty for making a stroke from a wrong place, there is no addition penalty for:

(a) substituting a ball when not permitted;

(b) dropping a ball when the Rules require it to be placed, or placing a ball when the Rules require it to be dropped;

(d) a ball being put into play by a person not permitted to do so under the rules.

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