practising during your round?

aubreym

hi all,

situation: slow round, but coming off the 7th & pass the 6th, which is a par 3 bottleneck.

2 guys playing in a singles event & one is chipping the ball 20-30 feet towards the green from the tee box & back again, while the other is putting towards one of the markers on the tee box.

Playing partner informed them that you cannot practice on the course, but they replied that you can if you are waiting on the teebox for the group in front to finish.

i know the rule that you can only practice putting & chipping on your previous green & not if you are holding up either your group or the one behind, but have a vague recollection of this coming up recently & it was ok.

opinions?

aubreym

looks like Rule 7-2 allows it.

A player must not make a practice stroke during play of a hole.
Between the play of two holes a player must not make a practice stroke, except that he may practise putting or chipping on or near:
a. the putting green of the hole last played,
b. any practice putting green, or
c. the teeing ground of the next hole to be played in the round, provided a practice stroke is not made from a hazard and does not unduly delay play (Rule 6-7).
Strokes made in continuing the play of a hole, the result of which has been decided, are not practice strokes.

http://www.randa.org/en/Rules-and-Amateur-Status/Rules-of-Golf.aspx#/search/?searchTerm=practising

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aubreym wrote: »

hi all,

situation: slow round, but coming off the 7th & pass the 6th, which is a par 3 bottleneck.

2 guys playing in a singles event & one is chipping the ball 20-30 feet towards the green from the tee box & back again, while the other is putting towards one of the markers on the tee box.

Playing partner informed them that you cannot practice on the course, but they replied that you can if you are waiting on the teebox for the group in front to finish.

i know the rule that you can only practice putting & chipping on your previous green & not if you are holding up either your group or the one behind, but have a vague recollection of this coming up recently & it was ok.

opinions?

People like that playing partner really annoy me...trying to pull people up on things when they don't even know the rules. I'm sure putting on a teebox really improves your chances of winning the competition.

Trampas

DQ all around

Kace

Trampas wrote: »

DQ all around

Eh - no, all fully allowable behaviour and within the rules.

aubreym

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People like that playing partner really annoy me

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he said that he went over just to advise him that in case it happened in a serious comp, ie, junior/senior cup, jimmy bruen, captains prize etc, he could get pulled up on it, so it was advice to a young golfer, not meddling, if thats what you are indicating?

WHIP IT!

aubreym wrote: »

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People like that playing partner really annoy me

<reply>
he said that he went over just to advise him that in case it happened in a serious comp, ie, junior/senior cup, jimmy bruen, captains prize etc, he could get pulled up on it, so it was advice to a young golfer, not meddling, if thats what you are indicating?

But he was wrong. So, in effect, they advised him!

aubreym

well, if thats your point, every time you see a 'young' golfer doing something that may be against the rules, your attitude is to 'walk on' , in case, he's not breaking a rule & let him learn the hard way, in case you're right ?

sure if thats the case, .......> (not even going to bother).

Villain

Seen this plenty recently people telling others the rules only to be wrong, I don't mind anyone telling someone else rules provided they know the rules and sure of them

k.p.h

How about someone declaring a scratch and picking the ball out of the trees and throwing the ball back on the fairway to play out the hole.?

Zardoz

aubreym wrote: »

one is chipping the ball 20-30 feet towards the green from the tee box & back again, while the other is putting towards one of the markers on the tee box.

Whatever about being within the rules ,its extremely bad form to be chipping off a tee box .

Kace

Zardoz wrote: »

Whatever about being within the rules ,its extremely bad form to be chipping off a tee box .

Didn't notice that point - most courses don't allow any play from a tee box, unless of course it's the drive, so I would guess that these guys were in fact breaking the local rules of the course.

Interesting to check the scorecard for the course on this one.