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Adjusting driver setting mid round during competition?

  • 02-06-2012 7:33pm
    #1
    GetInTheHole!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭


    Hi Folks,

    As the title suggests - just wondering if there is any rulling against adjusting your driver setting mid round during a competition?

    Is it okay or do you have to stick with the setting that you tee off with on the first?


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  • #2
    Spudmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,988 ✭✭✭Spudmonkey


    GetInTheHole! wrote: »
    Hi Folks,

    As the title suggests - just wondering if there is any rulling against adjusting your driver setting mid round during a competition?

    Is it okay or do you have to stick with the setting that you tee off with on the first?

    You have to stick with the one setting the entire way around. As far as I know any alterations to a club either intentional or accidental render the club unusable for the rest of the round. Open to correction though.


  • #3
    Tones69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭Tones69


    Cannot alter any settings during a competitive round


  • #4
    Sandwlch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Sandwlch


    Spudmonkey wrote: »
    As far as I know any alterations to a club either intentional or accidental render the club unusable for the rest of the round. Open to correction though.

    Not quite.

    You may continue to use a club if it is accidentally altered during the normal course of play as long as it still conforms. You may even repair or replace it. For eg, scuttling a ball our from under a tree with your putter and follow through stikes a branch and breaks the shaft - OK repair it, replace it, or even continue to use if if you are happy to grip down the remaining shaft. Break the putter hitting the ground in anger after missing the same ball - not OK to replace or repair or continue to use.

    Any intentional alterations are fully forbidden.


  • #5
    Eaglebridie 32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭Eaglebridie 32


    Sandwlch wrote: »
    Not quite.

    You may continue to use a club if it is accidentally altered during the normal course of play as long as it still conforms. You may even repair or replace it. For eg, scuttling a ball our from under a tree with your putter and follow through stikes a branch and breaks the shaft - OK repair it, replace it, or even continue to use if if you are happy to grip down the remaining shaft. Break the putter hitting the ground in anger after missing the same ball - not OK to replace or repair or continue to use.

    Any intentional alterations are fully forbidden.

    Rule 4, 3b suggests that a club damaged during the course of a round cannot be used for the remainder of that round as the playing characteristics of the club has changed and the club is "non confoming". If the damage has been caused in the normal course of play, it can be replaced but otherwise no, Either way it cannot be used for the remaider of the round -


  • #6
    Sandwlch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Sandwlch


    Eaglebridie 32 wrote: »
    Rule 4, 3b suggests that a club damaged during the course of a round cannot be used for the remainder of that round as the playing characteristics of the club has changed and the club is "non confoming". If the damage has been caused in the normal course of play, it can be replaced but otherwise no, Either way it cannot be used for the remaider of the round -

    Rule 4-3a says :
    "Damage in Normal Course of Play
    If, during a stipulated round, a player’s club is damaged in the normal course of play, he may:
    (i) use the club in its damaged state for the remainder of the stipulated round"


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  • #7
    Eaglebridie 32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭Eaglebridie 32


    Sandwlch wrote: »
    Rule 4-3a says :
    "Damage in Normal Course of Play
    If, during a stipulated round, a player’s club is damaged in the normal course of play, he may:
    (i) use the club in its damaged state for the remainder of the stipulated round"
    Yes, you are spot on there, I stand corrected


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