General Area Relief Procedures USGA Rules 2019 Insert Measuring - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Insert Association Logo Here General Area Relief Procedures USGA Rules 2019 Insert Measuring Club-Lengths Association Logo Here Which club do you use to measure? Your longest club (excluding your putter) defines club- lengths when
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USGA Rules 2019
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Your longest club (excluding your putter) defines club- lengths when taking relief. For most players, this will be your driver.
For this player, the driver is the club that defines club- lengths when taking relief.
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The ball must be dropped…
The ball must not…
it hits the ground,
any other way to influence where the ball will come to rest.
How to Drop a Ball in the “Right Way”
This player has dropped the ball in the “right way.”
Dropping a Ball in the “Right Way”
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After dropping in the “right way,” this ball must come to rest in the relief area.
Where Dropped Ball Must Come to Rest
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After dropping your ball in the “right way,” if it comes to rest outside the relief area, drop in the “right way” a second time. If your second drop done the “right way” comes to rest in the relief area, play the ball as it lies.
Re-Dropping
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After two drops made in the right way finish outside of the relief area:
the ground
This golfer has dropped her ball the “right way” twice, and both times her ball came to rest outside the relief area. She is now placing the ball on the spot where her ball hot the ground on her second drop.
Placing Your Ball After Dropping in the “Right Way”
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Estimate the spot where the ball was at rest and replace it
Common Rules that require replacing the ball is when the ball was moved:
green
This player’s ball was lifted by another player. She estimated where the ball was at rest and replaced it
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You can use the unplayable ball relief options if your ball lies:
This is NOT an option when your ball is in a penalty area.
Unplayable relief is NOT an
penalty area.
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Distance Relief
Line Relief
Drop within one club- length of where your previous stroke was made. Drop on the line keeping the point where the ball lies between you and the flagstick. Drop within two club- lengths of where your ball lies.
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Spot of previous stroke
Relief Options for Ball Unplayable in the General Area
Drop within one club- length of where your previous stroke was made.
Drop on the line keeping the point where the ball lies between you and the flagstick.
Drop within two club- lengths of where your ball lies.
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You must find your ball.
point where the ball lies between you and the flagstick.
This is your reference point.
length of the reference point, in the general area and not nearer the hole.
This is the relief area.
For one penalty-stroke, you may take back-on-the-line relief.
The highlighted area is the relief area. This is where a ball must be dropped. Back-on-the-Line Relief for Ball Unplayable in the General Area
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This is your reference point.
within two club-lengths of the reference point and not nearer the hole.
This is the relief area.
For one penalty-stroke, you may take lateral relief.
Lateral Relief for Ball Unplayable in the General Area
The highlighted area is the relief area. This is where a ball must be dropped.
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Abnormal course conditions are any of these things:
Recognizing Abnormal Course Conditions
A ball rests on an immovable obstruction Temporary water accumulates on a hole
Ground under repair
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Interference from an abnormal course condition exists when:
condition.
your area of intended stance or intended swing.
condition on or off the putting green intervenes on your line
Abnormal Course Condition Relief
Ball lies on an immovable
Player’s stance has interference from an immovable obstruction
Temporary water on the putting green may intervene on line of play
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Relief from an abnormal course condition is NOT allowed when:
condition is out of bounds.
play the ball:
course condition.
club, type of stance or swing or direction of play that is clearly unreasonable.
Abnormal Course Condition Relief
Ball in penalty area not entitled to relief
Unreasonable stroke not entitled to relief
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When taking relief from an abnormal course condition in the general area, you must follow these steps:
length from the reference point (which must be in the general area)
Abnormal Course Condition Relief in the General Area
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An artificial object that can be moved
This irrigation flag is a movable obstruction. This rake is a movable
This sign is a movable
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Movable obstructions can be moved anywhere
the course.
Bunker
Penalty Area Out of Bounds General Area
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Ball Moved While Removing a Movable Obstruction
If your ball moved while you remove a movable obstruction,
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Your ball is embedded
mark made as a result
the level of the ground.
necessarily have to touch soil to be embedded.
Ball is embedded Part of the ball (embedded in its own pitch-mark) is below the level of the ground.
Ball is embedded Despite the fact that the ball is not touching the soil, part of the ball (embedded in its own pitch-mark) is below the level of the ground. Ball is NOT embedded Even though the ball is sitting down in the grass, relief is not available because no part of the ball is below the level of the ground.
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Free relief is available ANYWHERE in the general area for an embedded ball. There is no free relief in
in the general area.
This ball is in its own pitch-mark and part of it lies below the level of the ground, therefore it’s embedded.
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How to Take Embedded Ball Relief
Drop within one club-length of the spot right behind where the ball was embedded not nearer the hole. The relief area must be in the general area.
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In a stroke play event, A and his or her marker B, who is also a player, are discussing the relief procedures for ground under repair. They see that the required one club-length relief doesn’t allow A to get away from the tree blocking her line. They agree to use two club-lengths and A takes relief from interference by an obstruction with a ball dropped almost two club-lengths from the nearest point of complete relief and continues play. Both players are disqualified.
Rules Question #1 – True or False?
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themselves.
breached a Rule and to be honest in applying their own penalties.
Rule that involves a penalty and deliberately fails to apply the penalty, the player is disqualified.
any Rule or penalty they know applies and any of those players have started the round, they are disqualified (even if they have not yet acted on the agreement).”
Answer - True
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Prior to dropping a ball in taking free relief from an abnormal course condition, a player deliberately breaks a branch of a small bush that lies adjacent to the relief area that might affect his or her stroke to be made after the dropped ball comes to rest in the relief area. There is no penalty.
Rules Question #2 – True or False?
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in Rule 8.1a (except as allowed in Rule 8.1 b, c, or d) to alter any such other physical conditions to affect:
after his or her next stroke or later stroke, or
rest if it moves before the stroke is made (for example, when the ball is on a steep slope and the player is concerned it might roll into a bush).
Answer – False
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A player sees his or her uphill chip shot returning to the spot where he or she played it. The player replaces the large divot taken by the shot into the divot hole and presses it down for the purpose of preventing the ball to come to rest in a bad lie. The ball stops short of the replaced divot. There is no penalty.
Rules Question #3 – True or False?
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deliberately take any of these actions to affect where the ball (whether the player’s own ball or another player’s ball) might come to rest:
actions listed in Rule 8.1a (such as replacing a divot or pressing down a raised area of turf), or
Answer – False
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A player drops a ball and it comes to rest on the required spot but the Rules required him or her to place the ball. The ball has been placed in a wrong way and if the player makes a stroke at the ball, he or she gets the general penalty.
Rules Question #4 – True or False?
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must be replaced by setting it down on the required spot and letting it go so that it stays
replaced in a wrong way but on the required spot, the player gets one penalty stroke.”
moved and a Rule requires it to be replaced on a spot.
Answer - False
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