Answers to Golf Questions

Southland Times, Issue 23499, 4 May 1938, Page 14

Answers to Golf Questions

Answers to the questions for golfers in column three are:— (1) If a player play the opponent’s ball his side shall lose the hole unless: The opponent then play the player’s ball, in which case the penalty is cancelled, and the hole shall be played out with the balls thus exchanged; the mistake occur through wrong information given by an opponent or his caddie, in which case there shall be no penalty; if the mistake be discovered before the opponent has played his ■ next stroke it shall be rectified by dropping or, on the putting green, placing a ball as near as possible to the place where the opponent’s ball lay. (b) If a player play a stroke with the ball of anyone not engaged in the match, and the mistake be discovered and intimated to his opponent before his opponent has played his next stroke, there shall be no penalty; if the mistake be not discovered and so intimated until after the opponent has played his next stroke, the player’s side shall lose the hole. (2) His caddie. (3) When a ball is stopped, etc. (4) Disqualification of both. (5) None. (6) One stroke.