GOLF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 123, 26 May 1936, Page 4

GOLF

GOLFER’S CATECHISM KNOWLEDGE OF RULES EVERYDAY INCIDENTS 3 INTERESTING PROBLEMS. The interpretation of rules in the game of golf is covered to some extent by the official volume “Decisions on the Rules,’’ containing ( about 350 rulings on the interpretations. That is in addition to 23 definitions, 35 rules dealing with match play—several of them containing four or five sub-sections — and about 30 special rules for stroke play competitions, bogey competitions, four-ball matches and so forth. But it would be an arduous task to dig this information out of the rules and decisions and then to memorise it. With a view to .assisting the average golfer, the following “Catechism” has been compiled, and each week the “Chronicle” will publish a series of questions, the answers to which players are requested to jot down on the line following the question. This will enable players to test their knowledge. The answers will be published in the “Chronicle” each Tuesday. The problems should provide golfers with food for thought over the week-end game. The questions and answers are | from “The Golfer’s Catechism,” written by Robert H. K. Brown- ! Ing, M.A., L 1.8., and published by I H. O. Quinn. Ltd., London. The title of the third week’s series of questios, published last Saturday, was “Some General Points,” and these provided a topic of conversation and discussion among golfers in the wide area covered by the “Chronicle.” In accordance with the intimation that the answers to questions would be published each Tuesday, ' the third series follows: — ,SO.ME GUN UK AL POINTS (21 i When about Io plav his teeshot at a short hole, a player calls over io a friend who is playing ahead of him on a neighbouring fairway to ask what club he ought to take. Is this permissible? Answer: No! The only people \ from whom a player may ask advice i | on the choice of a Hub or the stroke, he ought, to pla.v are his I caddie, or (in a foursome or fourball) his partner or his partner’s ' caddie. The penalty is the loss of lhe hole in match j>lay—Rule 4 (1 ) ! -or disqualification in stroke play.' Stroke Rule fi. I (22) Jn n stroke play competitiou, A, j who is a stranger Io the course, is placing along with B, a member of the local club. Neither ot them has a caddie, ''an A ask B’s advice on the club he ought to lake for a blind approach shot ! Answer: No! The fellow-com- < petitor with whom you are partnered in a stroke competition is not i a “partner” in the sense of Rule 4 I i I). The penalty for asking advice I is disqualification. Stroke Rule 6. (?;■>) lit a ma Ich between A ami B, A is bunkered from his drive and takes more than one stroke to get clear jf the bunker. Before B plays his second shot, he asks A. how many he ( Ai has played And is told “3.” R plays and is bunkered, beside the green, and A then informs him that when he. (A) said “3” he was thinking of the . number of strokes he had played in 1 the bunker, and that he had in fact J played four strokes in nil. B claims e the hole. U he entitled io do so? e Answer: B is entitled to claim " the hole on account of the wrong infnrrVition given by his opponent. l ' If A had corrected his error before '• R placed his next, stroke, A would f have, incurred no penalty. Rule 4 e ( o! (2Ui A player proposes to “lift ami e drop” a ball under a rule or local rule. £ He drops it over his right shoulder. s looking round at the same time over 0 his left shoulder so as Io have some idea of the nature of the spot on s which he is dropping it. Is this allow- ' able? Answer: No. In dropping a ball lhe player must, face the hole. — Rule 8 (2). The penalty is the Joss of the hole in match play nr two strokes in stroke play. (25) A hall that has been lifted and dropped under a rule or local rule, falls on a slope that throws it forward so that it comes to rest nearer the hole than the spot from which it: was lifted. Is it permissible to play it from this position? e No. Tf lhe hall comes to rest nearer the hole than the spot from which it was lifted, it must, be re dropped.—Rule 8 (J). In cases where it is impossible owing to the - j configuration of the ground, to pren I vent a dropped ball from rolling nearer Io the hole, the ball should il be placed. (26) Tf the ball when dropped as in 1 the foregoing query rolls into a hazard. must it be played from there? ). Answer: No. If the ball when dropped rolls into a hazard, the •. plaver may re-drop without penalty, g -Rule 8 (2). v (27) .Lonse impediments may l>e lif led from any part of the course, ird respective of the position of the r player’s bail. Js there any exception n f c thi s ? Answer: Jf the ball lies in or touching a hazard, loose impediments in or touching the hazard may not be moved.— Rule 25. Other wise any loose, impediments may be removed.—Rule 12 (1) and 25 (4). (28) A player puts his tee shot into long grass, and in playing out from there strikes the ball twice. How many strokes has he now played at | this hole? Answer: Three. When a player I in Inaking a stroke hits the ball l twice, he counts the stroke and one penalty stroke in addition.—Rule | 14. I (29) A. player’s tee shot leaves his i ball on a bare slope, and as he is in the middle of his swing for his next stroke the ball begins to roll. He completes the swing quickly enough to strike the moving ball and the shot is quite a good one. How many has he now played ?