In my 20-plus years of golf training, I still see the same to happen over and over. A player hits a wonderful car straight in the middle. Ball finds a divot across the right path. The player sees him how he is radioactive.
“Can’t touch it, right, coach?”
No. Wrong again.
This happens constantly. Golfists are paralyzed by the rules they do not really understand. They think Usga She sits on dreaming of ways to punish the hackers of the weekend. So they will avenge the impossible lies than to get a perfect legal relief. If you decide that your ball is unbearable (everywhere in the course except a penalty area), you must make a penalty kick by rule 19.2 But often that decision will save you in the long run.
What about a situation where you can move or move your ball without a penalty? Well, they exist, and they are much more common than most players understand.
Here’s what bothers me: the same players who spend hours in appearance Reading the greens It will not take time to learn eight simple situations where the movement of their ball does not suffer a penalty kick.
The Book of Rules is not your enemy. It is actually trying to help you shoot better results.
The fear that costs you
I have learned everyone from the weekend hackers to scratch the players and everyone shares the same paranoia: touching their ball is equal to the automatic penalty. This fear goes so deeply that players will deceive impossible lies than to get legal relief.
Last month, I saw a good player to take four shots to get out of a street bunker because he was scared to remove a robbery that was interfering with his stay. Rules allow you to move movable obstacles (as a robbery) anywhere in the course without a penalty (rules 14.2d (1)). Loose obstacles are natural objects – different rule.
This clip cost him two unnecessary blows.
Eight situations where you can move your ball without penalties
Situation #1: In green placement (any accidental move)
No penalties for the accidental movement of the ball or the marker of your ball in the green placement. Discard your ball into the ball? No penalties. This change of the 2019 rule was a game shift for nerve putters. Simply replace it and continue to play.
Situation #2: When looking for your ball
If you accidentally move your ball while looking for it, there is no penalty. This happens all the time in autumn conditions when you are digging through the leaves. Simply replace it as close as possible, where it first extends.
Situation #3: Practice the shakes on the topic
Even if your ball just falls out of your finger without being hit, there is no penalty. Simply re-use it and play (rules 6.2b (5)). The ball is not officially in the game until you make a blow with the intention of hitting it. Simply re-play and play.
Situation #4: When another player intervenes
Should you raise your ball so that another player can play? Mark it, move it, let them play, and then replace the labeling of your basic course integrated into the rules.
Situation #5: When you get legitimate relief
No penalties if you accidentally move your ball as you determine your aid area from the carriage trails, ground under repairs or immovable obstacles. You are allowed to move without worrying about the ball collision.
Situation #6: When moved by natural forces
Wind, water, gravity … no one results in sentences. In general, play from the new location. Exception: In green placement, if your marked and replaced ball moves due to natural forces, replace it again.
Situation #7: When you identify your ball
Found a ball in long grass? Mark its location, then freeze to identify without fear. If you accidentally slam it over the rise, no penalties. You have every right to know if it’s your ball.
Situation #8: When moving movable obstacles
Raches, bottles, paper glasses, loose shares: if you can reasonably move it, you can. If your ball moves in the process, no penalties. Simply replace the ball and continue.
An error that cost you yet
Be freezing (pine straw, leaves, branches). If their movement causes your ball to move, it is a penalty kick anywhere except in green placement (14.2e rules).
Smart game? Move loose obstacles very carefully or just play around them if your ball is accurately lowered.
Why players stay confused
There are now more exceptions than once and players have read a lot in the general rule. The basic principle remains: if you move your ball to the game, you get a penalty kick and you need to replace it. But the exceptions have increased significantly.
My advice? Learn these eight cold situations. They are legal, legal ways to improve your position without punishment. Stop leaving stroke on the course because you are afraid to touch your ball when the rules clearly allow it.
The rules are not trying to deceive you. They are actually more friendly of the players now than they’ve ever been. Use it to your advantage.
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