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What's the ruling?

  • 20-02-2011 9:37pm
    #1
    Jasonw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 496 ✭✭


    Player A is playing on the first day of a 2 day 18 hole singles competition which does not allow re-entry.

    In the course of play of his 3rd hole he is struck on the head by a golf ball and is taken to hospital.

    Is he allowed to re-enter the competition on day 2 and if so should he continue his round from where he left the previous day or start again?


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  • #2
    BUACHAILL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭BUACHAILL


    I would say he is mad and has concussion, needs his head examined for even considering going back day after !! lol shocker i know


  • #3
    aster99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭aster99


    I presume common sense would just say start new round on the 2nd day, I don't think there would be any complaints from anyone as it would be pretty exceptional circumstances.
    Did this actually happen ?


  • #4
    ozymandias10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭ozymandias10


    its a local rule..up to the competition secretary or committee


  • #5
    Garda S Horgan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 220 ✭✭Garda S Horgan


    Getting hit and going to hospital sounds like the extreme case. My worry would be in the case where it's not so black and white. So someone starting off 8, 8, 6 and then saying that their stomach is in bits and really cramped, or that they have twinged a back muscle and have to go home sick. I understand that people can't do anything about getting hit by a ball, but they can't do much about standing on a cone from a tree and "hurting" their ankle and then heading home to try again the next day.

    Yours etc,
    GSH.


  • #6
    AGC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭AGC


    He obviously started birdie birdie!!


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  • #7
    PhilipMarlowe
    Subscribers Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭PhilipMarlowe


    :)
    Weird one alright...
    You can discontinue play within reason (for injury) once you inform the committee who should allow you some time... whether that time would extend to the following day is up to them (committee) I guess?
    Once play is discontinued, you'd resume from wherever you stopped... He would have had to have marked its position before lifting and if not he'd have a 1 stroke penalty to add.
    See rule 6-8
    All in all, I'd say "ouch" and "there's always next week..."


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