MARYPORT GC - Return2Golf: Rules Knowledge

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Maryport Golf Club: Return2Golf Rules Quiz

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In match play, Terry hits a shot in a bunker and his ball rebounds off the face of the bunker. Despite his nickname, ‘Swervey’ does not have time to get out of the way and the ball hits his body. He must play the ball as it lies, but what is the penalty?

The player gets one penalty stroke.

The player loses the hole.

There is no penalty.

When dropping a ball under a Rule, Lindsay drops the ball in the right way twice and both times the ball comes to rest just outside the relief area, no nearer the hole. What is the ruling?

The player must continue dropping until a ball comes to rest in the relief area.

The player must place a ball on the spot where the ball dropped the second time, first touched the ground.

The player must place a ball anywhere in the relief area.

Sam finds his ball by stepping on it in thick rough after searching for it for 2 minutes, causing it to move. What is the ruling?

The player gets a penalty of one stroke and must place the ball on the estimated spot. If the ball was under the growing grass it must be replaced under that grass.

There is no penalty and the player must place the ball on the estimated spot. If the ball was under the growing grass it must be replaced under that grass.

There is no penalty and the player must drop the ball as near as possible to the estimated spot.

Wendy makes a stroke on the putting green with the flagstick in the hole. Her ball comes to rest against the flagstick with part of the ball below the surface of the putting green. The ball is considered holed.

True

False

Bill is standing in a green-side bunker on the Par 3 7th in readiness to play his next shot from it. Whilst waiting for players to make their tee shots on the adjacent 10th Tee, he leans on his club in the sand. What is his penalty?

One shot penalty

Two shot penalty

No penalty

Stephen’s tee shot on the 4th misses the fairway to the right and comes to rest close to the wall. His next intended shot would be to play straight toward the green, but his normal backswing with the club he will use to play that shot only misses the wall by a matter of inches. What is the ruling?

The player should play their next shot as the ball lies.

The player may take free relief no greater than two club lengths and no nearer the hole, from the position at which their ball lies until the wall no longer distracts them from their intended swing.

The player is entitled to select a longer club or adopt a different direction of stance to play away from the wall in order that the immovable object would then interfere with their intended swing area. The player would then be entitled to relief no greater than one club length and no nearer the hole than the ball’s original position.

Adam is playing a Stroke Play Competition and is stood in the fairway on the Par 5 - 6th hole waiting for the group ahead to clear the green, and is nearly struck by a ball played by William in the group behind. In anger, Adam hits the ball back towards the group. Have his actions incurred a penalty?

Yes. Two shot Penalty

No penalty. The player behind must replay their shot, once the course ahead is clear.

MARYPORT GC - Return2Golf: Rules Knowledge

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