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Unusual golf rule

  • 19-09-2020 1:18pm
    #1
    gypsy79
    Registered Users Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭


    While playing a matchplay on Monday. A guy with me commented that opponent could have called penalty on me for putting a tee in my mouth

    Under unusual use of golf equipment

    Anyone rules geeks can confirm ruling


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  • #2
    finglashoop
    Registered Users Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭finglashoop


    gypsy79 wrote: »
    While playing a matchplay on Monday. A guy with me commented that opponent could have called penalty on me for putting a tee in my mouth

    Under unusual use of golf equipment

    Anyone rules geeks can confirm ruling


    Surely that cant be a rule.


  • #3
    Seve OB
    Registered Users Posts: 15,823 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    gypsy79 wrote: »
    While playing a matchplay on Monday. A guy with me commented that opponent could have called penalty on me for putting a tee in my mouth

    Under unusual use of golf equipment

    Anyone rules geeks can confirm ruling

    Is it anymore unusual than sticking it behind your ear.

    I think the guy is either winding you up or he was wound up and fell for it


  • #4
    28064212
    Registered Users Posts: 10,455 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    Rule 4.3.a https://www.randa.org/en/rog/2019/rules/the-rules-of-golf/rule-4
    Allowed and Prohibited Uses of Equipment
    A player may use equipment to help his or her play during a round, except that a player must not create a potential advantage by:
    - Using equipment (other than a club or a ball) that artificially eliminates or reduces the need for a skill or judgment that is essential to the challenge of the game, or
    - Using equipment (including a club or a ball) in an abnormal way in making a stroke. “Abnormal way” means a way that is fundamentally different than its intended use and is not normally recognized as part of playing the game.
    Emphasis is mine. Unless you were making a stroke with the tee in your mouth, the second exclusion applies. If you were making a stroke, the first exclusion applies (unless yer man thinks you gained an advantage by playing with a tee in your mouth)

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  • #5
    gypsy79
    Registered Users Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭gypsy79


    His argument was that I could be using it to relieve stress


  • #6
    bobbyy gee
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    golf rules

    https://www.golfdigest.com/story/18-golf-rules-you-definitely-need-to-know-when-playing-in-a-tournament


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    slave1
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    Words fail me

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  • #8
    TCM
    Registered Users Posts: 736 ✭✭✭TCM


    Complete nonsense. No such rule infringement.


  • #9
    Seve OB
    Registered Users Posts: 15,823 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    bobbyy gee wrote: »
    golf rules

    https://www.golfdigest.com/story/18-golf-rules-you-definitely-need-to-know-when-playing-in-a-tournament

    Well they aren’t the golf rules for a start.
    They have nothing to do with the above
    They are Americanised
    They are outdated


  • #10
    DuckSlice
    Registered Users Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭DuckSlice


    Jesus that’s some nonsense!


  • #11
    28064212
    Registered Users Posts: 10,455 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    gypsy79 wrote: »
    His argument was that I could be using it to relieve stress
    Relieving stress neither "eliminates or reduces the need for a skill or judgment that is essential to the challenge of the game". If they were to take that route, they better make a similar claim against every golfer that chews gum on course

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  • #12
    gypsy79
    Registered Users Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭gypsy79


    28064212 wrote: »
    Relieving stress neither "eliminates or reduces the need for a skill or judgment that is essential to the challenge of the game". If they were to take that route, they better make a similar claim against every golfer that chews gum on course

    I used the exact comparison. But was then point out that tees couldn’t be used to help with alignment

    But then neither could gun which I never thought of at the time


  • #13
    downthemiddle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,859 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    gypsy79 wrote: »
    I used the exact comparison. But was then point out that tees couldn’t be used to help with alignment

    But then neither could gun which I never thought of at the time

    I would find someone else to play with !!!


  • #14
    jimjim12
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭jimjim12


    Tell him to go beep. It's like the guy who claimed my ball retriever was a club at the start of a match play round. Telling me I had 15 clubs. We didn't speak much.


  • #15
    DuckSlice
    Registered Users Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭DuckSlice


    jimjim12 wrote: »
    Tell him to go beep. It's like the guy who claimed my ball retriever was a club at the start of a match play round. Telling me I had 15 clubs. We didn't speak much.

    Did he go to count your clubs or just spotted it?


  • #16
    jimjim12
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭jimjim12


    etxp wrote: »
    Did he go to count your clubs or just spotted it?
    He saw it on the first tee and then asked how many clubs I had. I said 14 and he said 15. He was just being a d***, trying to put me off. I handed me the rule book and asked for him to point out the rule, that shut him up.


  • #17
    fearruanua
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭fearruanua


    didn't know until the weekend that you are not obliged to put an identifying mark on your golf ball when playing in a competition.


  • #18
    DuckSlice
    Registered Users Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭DuckSlice


    fearruanua wrote: »
    didn't know until the weekend that you are not obliged to put an identifying mark on your golf ball when playing in a competition.

    The rule says you "should" put a mark on your ball. I don't know why you wouldn't though.


  • #19
    fearruanua
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭fearruanua


    etxp wrote: »
    The rule says you "should" put a mark on your ball. I don't know why you wouldn't though.

    What's the thinking i wonder with it being "should"??


  • #20
    DuckSlice
    Registered Users Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭DuckSlice


    fearruanua wrote: »


    What's the thinking i wonder with it being "should"??

    No idea, they should just have left it as "must". I'd imagine there has been plenty arguments in matchplay with someone not having a mark on their ball.


  • #21
    PARlance
    Registered Users Posts: 21,092 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    etxp wrote: »
    No idea, they should just have left it as "must". I'd imagine there has been plenty arguments in matchplay with someone not having a mark on their ball.

    It's not something that has changed, it was never a "must" afaik.

    I've been told that I have to declare my ball make and number on a couple of occasions. Another non rule.


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  • #22
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,007 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    etxp wrote: »
    No idea, they should just have left it as "must". I'd imagine there has been plenty arguments in matchplay with someone not having a mark on their ball.

    You don't have to though, you just have to be able to identify your ball.

    It's really only an issue if you find 2 identical, unmarked balls. In that case, both are deemed lost.
    If someone else plays your ball without you knowing, not much you can do in either case.

    However, why anyone would take that chance is beyond me, but many things other people do on the golf course are beyond me! (like the guy in front of me on Saturday who ran back to the tee 3 times because he didnt play a provo :mad:)


  • #23
    prawnsambo
    Registered Users Posts: 12,984 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    etxp wrote: »
    No idea, they should just have left it as "must". I'd imagine there has been plenty arguments in matchplay with someone not having a mark on their ball.
    I suspect that it could cause problems if you've lost a lot of balls, and don't have a means of marking another one while on the course.


  • #24
    The Tetrarch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    prawnsambo wrote: »
    I suspect that it could cause problems if you've lost a lot of balls, and don't have a means of marking another one while on the course.
    Idea: In the days before an important round "lose" two balls with your mark on each hole in semi-rough about 50 yards past your usual drive, one in the left, one in the right. Then when you go in the semi-rough "find" it. :D


  • #25
    prawnsambo
    Registered Users Posts: 12,984 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    The Tetrarch wrote: »
    Idea: In the days before an important round "lose" two balls with your mark on each hole in semi-rough about 50 yards past your usual drive, one in the left, one in the right. Then when you go in the semi-rough "find" it. :D
    Great. Unless those are the days that other people go out looking for lost golf balls. :D


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