teeing off & hitting a bird.

aubreym

anyone know the rule if you tee off & hit a bird midair?

thought you'd have to play it again, but local pro said play it again with no penalty.

any difference between clocking a bird midflight or a rabbit on the ground? presume in all cases, play it as it lies (whether inside the course or deflected out of bounds) ?

PRAF

I would presume it's just a rub of the green and you need to play it as it lies

DoctaDee

If your ball hits an "outside agency" while in motion then it's a case of play as it lies - other than a local rule, which would be highly unlikely with regard to birds, more power lines etc, where the ball must be replayed.

In the case of a ball at rest, which I only witnessed last Friday - a fox cub took my pals ball off the green - then it's a case of replacing it where it came to rest ..

onlyfinewine

DoctaDee wrote: »

If your ball hits an "outside agency" while in motion then it's a case of play as it lies - other than a local rule, which would be highly unlikely with regard to birds, more power lines etc, where the ball must be replayed.

In the case of a ball at rest, which I only witnessed last Friday - a fox cub took my pals ball off the green - then it's a case of replacing it where it came to rest ..

Power lines and pylons would normally be obstructions, whereas animals and birds and people would be outside agencies for rules purposes. Think of Rory's bounce off a guys head and it went O/B during the Open.

You can substitute a ball if the original is not recoverable if moved by an outside agency after coming to rest. I saw a video on U-Tube which shows a fox playing with and taking a ball off a green, it was excellent.

Holy Diver

Must've been a pretty stupid bird

denishurley

Apparently this how the name for a birdie came about, a second shot on a par-four hit a bird and the ball landed a few feet from the hole, leaving an easy putt

TouchingVirus

So they hit an Eagle and an Albatross after that then too?

chalkie 501

not sure myself,but this guy may have the answer:D

denishurley

TouchingVirus wrote: »

So they hit an Eagle and an Albatross after that then too?

I think it's that they're rarer birds

Almaviva

The case before us is that of the Crown versus aubreym - The Golf Course Pigeon Murderer!!!

Benny Cake

Reminds me of this...

lowelife

She shouldnt have been standing in the way....you did shout fore didnt you?

aubreym

unfortunately it was a duck, not a rat with wings (pigeon) that i hit, but its ok. battered & bruised, but nothing broken luckily. :-)

MP62

chalkie 501 wrote: »

not sure myself,but this guy may have the answer:D

That's not a guy.

lowelife

MP62 wrote: »

That's not a guy.

It looks like a gull

dak

denishurley wrote: »

Apparently this how the name for a birdie came about, a second shot on a par-four hit a bird and the ball landed a few feet from the hole, leaving an easy putt

I think this might be more likely !

The term ’birdie’ originated in the United States in 1899. H.B. Martin’s Fifty Years of American Golf contains an account of a foursomes match played at the Atlantic City (N.J.) CC. One of the players, Ab Smith relates, "My ball... came to rest within six inches of the cup. I said ’That was a bird of a shot... I suggest that when one of us plays a hole in one under par he receives double compensation.’ The other two agreed and we began right away, just as soon as the next one came, to call it a ’birdie." In 19th-century American slang, ’bird’ referred to anyone or anything excellent or wonderful.
By analogy with ’birdie,’ the term ’eagle’ soon thereafter became common to refer to a score one better than a ’bird.’ Also by analogy, the term ’albatross’ stands for double eagle—an even bigger eagle!