What do you do with the flagstick while you’re on the inexperienced? Do you simply depart it within the gap – allowed as a part of the 2019 guidelines adjustments – or are you a serial lifter?
Many people take away the flag after which plonk it down with out actually serious about the place we’ve left it. Sometimes, that may trigger a panic, as this query reveals:
“The flagstick is mendacity on the inexperienced. Nobody is attending it. Nobody is close to it. The participant makes a stroke on the inexperienced. Their ball is in movement and so they realise it’ll miss the opening and hit the flagstick.
“They run ahead and, whereas the ball continues to be shifting, carry the flagstick. Is there a penalty?”
Firstly, can I say I’m impressed at our questioner’s agility. I’d be statuesque. However dodgy ankles apart, what does occur if you end up on this predicament?
Golf flagstick guidelines: Are you able to shift the flag?
I’ve a litmus check for potential guidelines columns. I ask the query and if sufficient individuals within the workplace get it improper it passes mustard. This one was a 50-50 cut up.
It simply feels prefer it’s going to be an issue, doesn’t it? Transferring an object intentionally, or affecting the place a ball would possibly find yourself, looks like a penalty ready to occur.
A lot of the time you’d be proper and counting the fee. However not relating to a eliminated flagstick.
The rule that stops you getting concerned when a ball is in movement – it’s 11.3 – has an exception that means that you can carry or transfer a eliminated flagstick when a ball is in movement.
You too can dash in and shift a ball at relaxation on the placing inexperienced and gear belonging to any participant.
Discover the time period “eliminated flagstick”. Taking it out of the opening, together with when it’s attended, when a ball is in movement is a bit completely different and lined by Rule 13.2.
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Regardless of the adjustments to the Guidelines of Golf in 2019 and 2023, there are nonetheless some that depart us scratching our heads. I’ll attempt to assist by that includes the perfect of your queries on this column.
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