Questions on rules of Golf

Keen2win

Surprised there isn't a sticky on this for people to post quick question in regards certain rules?

Anyways, two quick and probably very easy questions:
1. Can you shoot out of a water hazard even if your ball is completly submerged, if you so wish?

2. You take a horrible tee shot, ball travels about 20 yards or something, and it's definately not lost. Can you take another shot off the tee and count it as your third shot, if you so wish?

Benicetomonty

Keen2win wrote: »

Surprised there isn't a sticky on this for people to post quick question in regards certain rules?

Anyways, two quick and probably very easy questions:
1. Can you shoot out of a water hazard even if your ball is completly submerged, if you so wish?

2. You take a horrible tee shot, ball travels about 20 yards or something, and it's definately not lost. Can you take another shot off the tee and count it as your third shot, if you so wish?

1) yes. 2) no

n2o

Benicetomonty wrote: »

1) yes. 2) no

2) You can declare a ball unplayable at any place on the course

irish bloke

Keen2win wrote: »

Surprised there isn't a sticky on this for people to post quick question in regards certain rules?

Thats not a bad idea...

Keen2win

n2o wrote: »

2) You can declare a ball unplayable at any place on the course

But the ball is definitely playable, you just want another shot at the driver because it's in the rough after travelling no distance at all?

n2o

Keen2win wrote: »

But the ball is definitely playable, you just want another shot at the driver because it's in the rough after travelling no distance at all?

The player is the sole judge as to whether his ball is unplayable.

GreeBo

The place to find out the rules of golf is the booklet or the Randa website, not a sticky.

and the answers are a)Yes, b)Yes.

Benicetomonty

GreeBo wrote: »

The place to find out the rules of golf is the booklet or the Randa website, not a sticky.

and the answers are a)Yes, b)Yes.

I stand corrected. Misadvised due to an incident involving Mickelson a few years back where he drove into trouble, ball was found (against hs wishes) and he had to play it. Reason was that he had already hit a provo into perfect position and wudv had to have hit from the tee a 3rd time if he had declared it unplayable. Think he took a line of sight in the end

wilfitz

Q. Can I give information from my DMD to other playing partners in a singles competition?

WH BONNEY

Yes.

SnowDrifts

wilfitz wrote: »

Q. Can I give information from my DMD to other playing partners in a singles competition?

Yes- type "advice" into the Randa rules site and its under the first FAQ

wilfitz

SnowDrifts wrote: »

Yes- type "advice" into the Randa rules site and its under the first FAQ

Thanks but I'd rather ask here

SnowDrifts

wilfitz wrote: »

Thanks but I'd rather ask here

Well in that case YES, like i said.

wilfitz

SnowDrifts wrote: »

Well in that case YES, like i said.

Thanks again, saw the first YES!

fullstop

Benicetomonty wrote: »

I stand corrected. Misadvised due to an incident involving Mickelson a few years back where he drove into trouble, ball was found (against hs wishes) and he had to play it. Reason was that he had already hit a provo into perfect position and wudv had to have hit from the tee a 3rd time if he had declared it unplayable. Think he took a line of sight in the end

He went back to the tee IIRC

TheDoc

wilfitz wrote: »

Q. Can I give information from my DMD to other playing partners in a singles competition?

Interesting replies to this, I would have said no.

Your not eligible to request help from playing partners in single events

Reads of putts
Distances
Club selection

So I would have assumed any device to aid yardage etc. would also be the same.

During a stipulated round, a player must not:
a. give advice to anyone in the competition playing on the course other than his partner, or
b. ask for advice from anyone other than his partner or either of their caddies.

Then right underneath it says that measuring devices are permitted.

TBH I'm very much against them in general for competition play, very much.

If I was playing a singles matchplay against someone with one in a GUI comp I'd have a chat with a ref about it. Your not allowed have caddies that don't qualify for the comp your playing in, so having a device to give you precise yardage shouldnt be allowed either : /

n2o

TheDoc wrote: »

Interesting replies to this, I would have said no.

Your not eligible to request help from playing partners in single events

Reads of putts
Distances
Club selection

So I would have assumed any device to aid yardage etc. would also be the same.



Then right underneath it says that measuring devices are permitted.

TBH I'm very much against them in general for competition play, very much.

If I was playing a singles matchplay against someone with one in a GUI comp I'd have a chat with a ref about it. Your not allowed have caddies that don't qualify for the comp your playing in, so having a device to give you precise yardage shouldnt be allowed either : /

The data from a DMD would not be advice, it would be fact. I'm guessing that's the distinction.

Similar distinction would be

a) How far out am I? Advice
b) Is that yellow stake 150 yds out? Fact

GreeBo

n2o wrote: »

The data from a DMD would not be advice, it would be fact. I'm guessing that's the distinction.

Similar distinction would be

a) How far out am I? Advice
b) Is that yellow stake 150 yds out? Fact

Is that advice though? You are asking for the facts on how far away you are.
Advice would be "am I a 7 or a 6 away?"

n2o

GreeBo wrote: »

Is that advice though? You are asking for the facts on how far away you are.
Advice would be "am I a 7 or a 6 away?"

And the answer would be an estimate rather than a fact. No?

GreeBo

n2o wrote: »

And the answer would be an estimate rather than a fact. No?

How far you are from something is a fact, whether or not the other person knows that fact or not is irrelevant.

RANDA wrote:

The distance between any objects is considered to be a matter of public information and is therefore not advice. As it is not advice it may be exchanged without restriction.

n2o

TheDoc wrote: »

Your not eligible to request help from playing partners in single events

Reads of putts
Distances
Club selection

Apologies Greebo, I was taking the above quote as coming from R&A. Distances should not be included in this so.