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  • Four Seasons in One Day | THE GRQ PODCAST EPISODE 30

    GRQotW29

    Are you permitted to watch a video on YouTube (say George Gankas or Me&My Golf) during a round to obtain swing tips?

    This caught a few, as like me, I would have assumed this wouldn’t be permitted, but Rule 4.3a(3) & (4) only restricts information gathered during the round. What is allowed is using information that was gathered before the round, such as swing tips. But consideration to other players and no delaying of play unreasonably.

    Genesis Invitational

    Patrick Cantplay-Fast embedded ball in bunker

    On the 6th hole at the Genesis Invitational, the affably-known ‘donut’ hole, because there is a bunker in the middle of the green, Patrick Cantlay’s tee shot is embedded in the lip above the bunker. A referee is requested and Patrick is taken through the relief process.

    Wind stops play - https://youtu.be/VBHfHo6tzf8

    During round 3 of the Genesis Invitational, the wind was so strong that balls were moving on the green and play was suspended. It was certainly timely for some, but not all.

    DJ movable obstruction - https://youtu.be/mtP6YL6ACZY

    Easy ruling for DJ. So easy, he didn’t even require a referee, just picked up the utility box that was housing cables and moved it himself before pitching out sideways.

    Matt Wolff moves ball on putting green - https://youtu.be/RtmBmd8ddfs

    This is number one on my favourite rulings of the year so far. Matty Wolff playing in the WGC Mexico (played in Florida), accidentally taps his ball sideways on a practice swing when his ball is at rest on the green. It doesn’t count as a putt because Matt had no intention of hitting the ball, and thus the ball was replaced for no penalty.

    Background Bingo

    Ep 29

    Rossco Yakgarra

    Blakey Kalgoorlie 

    Can you guess this weeks?

    IVOR’s

    Contributant

    Wittering

    Levitating or elevating

    The meaning of ‘Lost’, as in lost ball.

    GRQotW 30

    After the player hits their ball into the green, it stops and comes to rest on the green. As the player is walking up to the green, suddenly the irrigation system turns on and water runs across the grass, down the green and moves the ball. Does the ball need to be replaced, or is the player permitted to play it from where it is now at rest?


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    44 min
  • Ball at Rest Moved by Player |THE GRQ PODCAST EP29

    We start off with the GolfRules Question of the Week answer for Episode 28

    Are you permitted to use rock-paper-scissors as a legitimate way of determining who plays next in a match, if you are unable to determine who is furthest from the hole?

    Yes, rock-paper-scissors is a random method that can be used. Other random methods can also be used, like a coin toss, or you could throw an iron in the air and see which side up it lands - face or back. Alternatively you could just agree for one player to play.

    Blakey had an interesting story when he was called in as a referee for the Charley Hoffman vs Brendan Steele match at the Dell Matchplay in 2018.

    We were inundated with Rule 9.4 rulings this week at the AT&T PGA Tour event at Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill golf courses.

    Firstly during Round 3 - Maverick McNealy https://youtu.be/iZ_eKA2SFWs

    And then on the first hole during Round 4 - Russell Knox https://youtu.be/yM4DmT7K-wk

    Both players were penalised one stroke, although the exact same ruling wasn’t given by the referees at the time. Russell’s was handed to him after playing the 4th hole.

    We cleared up an email question from Jwonghen, and encourage everyone to send in emails for questions they want to know the answer to.

    If the lie of your ball is altered, are you permitted to place the ball closer to the hole?
    And if your ball won’t come to rest after you place/replace it, how far away can you then move your ball to get it to stay at rest? Say it was on a steep slope.

    Rossco and Blakey reminisce on the 25th anniversary of the famous golf movie - Happy Gilmore. It certainly has brought golf shops a lot of business from those who try to replicate the famous swing - including Blakey.

    Blakey has created the video scenarios, and has promised a re-release, and a whole podcast episode dedicated to Happy Gilmore imbroglios.

    The Background Bingo’s were discussed with Andrew Millar back on top of the podium, guessing both Spyglass Hill, and Craigielaw golf courses.

    This week will be a little trickier for all punters, but both are in Australia.

    GRQotW 29 Question

    Are you permitted to watch a video on YouTube (say George Gankas or Me&My Golf) during a round to obtain swing tips?

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    52 min
  • We tackle some serious listener questions and one is a real "ding dong" |THE GRQ PODCAST EP28

    Episode 28 Show Notes

    Is Mrs Blake " Blakeing the Rules" or is Blakey confused by his mum

    The GolfRules Question of the Week Episode 27 was an absolute doozy that caught many by surprise.

    When a player hits their original ball beside another ball in the general area, and they can’t tell which one is which, then they have a lost ball on their hands. However, when the ball is known or virtually certain to have gone into a movable obstruction, such as a player’s golf bag. Then the player can proceed under Rule 15.2b for no penalty.

    Listener Question #1

    Webbo (Andrew Webster) from the UK,  hit us up with a listener question a month ago, and must have had a crystal ball in his possession. He was asking about embedded balls, and lo-and-behold, we covered it last week after Reed-Gate#423.
    Yes, a ball can be embedded on the bounce, BUT only if you have reasonable evidence that it happened that way.
    No you are not permitted to take free relief for a ball embedded in sand in the rough, but Rossco and Blakey haven’t quite figured out what the cleanest definition of sand is. We think it’s where no plants/grass is growing.

    Listener Question #2

    The mum of podcaster GolfRules Questions hits the wave-lengths with a very tricky situation.

    Two players get to their balls on the green of the 9th hole and realise that the balls they have found on the 9th are although the balls they hit off the tee of the 9th hole, are not the balls that they started the 8th hole with. The pair of ladies then declares they are taking a penalty and go back to the tee, thinking that is the way to resolve it. Blakey explains many different scenarios, trying to make assumptions to get to many answers.

    Background Bingo

    The patronage of background bingo enthusiasts is up 300% since the solo Mr Andrew Millar was dominating. Last week's courses were Carne Golf Club, Belmullet Co Mayo  and Clearwater Golf Club, New Zealand. This week both Rossco and Blakey have ventured to the Northern Hemisphere, can you guess where their backgrounds are?
    GolfRules Question of the Week - Episode 28
    When two balls are an equal distance from the flagstick, are you and your opponent permitted to use paper-rock-scissors as a legitimate way to determine who will play first?

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    57 min
  • Patrick Reed the Rules - The P Reed EP | THE GRQ PODCAST EP27

    Episode 27 – Patrick Reed the Rules

    GRQotW Ep 26 Answer: If two balls in motion after separate strokes from different bunkers, hit each other when running across the green, what is the procedure?

    Patrick Reed wins under a cloud, but was it a storm in a teacup

    Patrick Reed hit his ball out of a bunker short left of the 14th green at Torrey Pines during the 3rd round of the Farmers Insurance Open. He got up to his ball, and proceeded under Rule 16.4 because he reasonably believed that their ball was embedded in the general area. After marking, and lifting his ball to inspect whether his ball was indeed embedded, he then called for a referee to confirm his assessment. However, many people thought this was very well rehearsed act, and that he had created any ball mark that was there, because it was hard to believe that his ball that had bounced, and come to rest in its pitch mark in the thick rough.

    Then Patrick has another incident with his ball on the green

    During the 4th round of the Farmers Insurance Open, Patrick replaced his ball on the green on the 16th hole, and lifted his ball-marker. The ball was at rest, but then moved. Patrick then calls for a referee. The referee lets him know that because he is on the green, the ball owns that spot. Only if Patrick makes a stroke or takes an unplayable would the ball then have a new position.

    https://youtu.be/NhzEBNGi0Mw

    Brooks ball ends up in a shoe, but he takes relief and is still standing on a path

    Brooks hits his drive into a camera-man’s shoe on the 16thhole of the North Course. This shoe is on the back on a cart that is parked on a cart-path. So Brooks can choose which condition to take free relief from. He can either take relief from the movable obstruction (the shoe), or the immovable obstruction (the cart path). He ended up taking relief from the shoe, and this is why he was permitted to stand on the path when playing the shot. If he had taken relief from the cart path, he would have had to take complete relief from the path.

    https://youtu.be/N2yYAbT9vbA

    Viktor Hovland can’t get his ball at rest to sit

    Viktor Hovland hit his ball left of the 14thgreen during the 4th round, and then took lateral relief from the red penalty area. He dropped and then re-dropped his ball because it never came to rest within the relief area. He then had to try and place it twice on the spot where it first hit the ground in the relief area, but it still wouldn’t stay at rest, so Viktor had to then proceed under Rule 14.2e and place his ball at the nearest spot, no nearer the hole, where the ball would stay at rest.

    https://youtu.be/OB-Ck8SrL-M

    Background Bingo

    GRQotW Ep 27 Question: A player sculls/skinny’s/knifes his ball over the green and into his cart. The player’s all saw and heard the ball hit the cart, but are unable to find it in there after a quick search. Then the player sees what looks to be his ball in the open pocket of his golf bag, just to realise that the exact same model and make golf balls (Taylormade TPS5 white) from the same sleeve are in there. So here is player A looking at three of the same balls, and not being able to tell which one was the one that he had hit from over the other side of the green. What is the ruling?



    1 hr 3 min
  • Want Some Advice...Don't Hand It Out For Free | THE GRQ PODCAST EP26

    Blakey & Rossco unpack a few 'what-ifs' in Episode 26.


    Loose Impediments near balls in the fairway - did you see the recent European Tour event (Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship)? Jorge CAMPILLO's ball came to rest against a loose impediment in the fairway. That loose impediment was an unreplaced divot. Jorge had three choices:
    Play it as it lies, take an unplayable for a penalty of one stroke, or try and move the loose impediment. The only issue with the last move is that if the player causes the ball to move, the player will incur a one stroke penalty and need to replace the ball.

    The GRQotW for Episode 25, there is no free relief from the spray of a sprinkler.

    Marcela from @GirlFriendsGuidetoGolf was kind enough to ask a question about players who proceed incorrectly under the Rules.
    Would you want to accept a trophy that you knew you had won without playing by the Rules??

    Then we delve into the very often broken Rules in club golf of advice. So what is advice? And when is a penalty attached?
    Any verbal comment or action (such as showing what club was just used to make a stroke) that is intended to influence a player.
    But advice does not include public information.
    A penalty is attached when you ask for, or give advice. This is not limited to verbal communication.

    Lastly, we provide another GRQotW for you to wrap your head around and come up with an answer:
    Rossco and Blakey are both fast players and both have bunker shots to contend with, and as they are in different bunkers and neither can see the other, they both think it is their turn to play. They play at the same time and the balls collide on the green, before settling about 10cm away from where the collision happened. Player C saw the whole thing play out. What is the ruling?

    Finally we get to IVORs and Background Bingo.


    Thank you and hit us up with your questions and scenarios.

    Blakey & Rossco

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    Rossco - Serial Golf Podcast Nerd

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    46 min
  • The GolfRules Road Trip 1 with Blakey & Rossco | THE GRQ PODCAST EP25

    Road Trippin

    Yes this week we try something new. A Podcast on the road. 

    As we attempt to bring more real life GolfRules Scenario to the Podcast and The GRQ YouTube our goal is to hit the road.

    Regular listeners will remember Blakey's lofty YouTube Subscriber ambitions.

    3000 - Country Victoria

    10000 - NZ

    30000 - Scotland

    Well this week sees the guys on the road with just enough time to fit in a Podcast Record from Rossco's mobile Podcast Studio while they cross Port Phillip Bay en-route to the fabulous new Lonsdale Links.

    In this episode we discuss a couple of situation that occurred at last weekends Sony Open.

    1 - Internal Out of Bounds

    2 - Relief from a Temporary Immovable Obstruction

    Also covered is last week GRQOTW regarding Power Lines and a fresh question for this week. The other answer we are looking for, is it an Irrigator or Sprinkler? We cover everything :-)

    As we are mobile no Background Bingo, however keep an eye out on the You Tube for some great scenarios filmed on location at Lonsdale Links.

    Thank you and hit us up with your questions and scenarios.

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    30 min
  • We discuss the Ball In Motion & Backstopping | THE GRQ PODCAST EP24

    The GolfRules Questions Podcast - EPISODE 24

    Welcome Back - we just want to start by saying thank you to all of you who continue listening to The GRQ PODCAST. We appreciate every minute of your time.

    In this weeks episode we answer last weeks GolfRules Question of the Week (GRQOTW).

    It was a simple answer to a tricky sounding question. Tune in for the answer.

    We chat about Ryan Palmer at last weekends Tournament of Champions and some of the scenarios around where a player deliberately affects the outcome of a ball in motion.

    Last weeks Background Bingo - Check out You Tube, however the courses were Lakes Entrance and The Dunes on the Mornington Peninsula.

    Tune in for this weeks GRQOTW, and who on earth knows why Ross would read it out in a Scottish Accent. Please feel free to rate his performance.

    Most of all, we have some fun and laughs discussing the serious business of The Golf Rules.

    Thank you for tuning in.

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    49 min
  • Welcome to 2021 - R&A / USGA Golf Rules 2021 Clarifications | THE GRQ PODCAST EP23
    Welcome to 2021 and The GolfRules Questions Podcast
    As always we are extremely excited to be your choice of Golf Podcast for all the fun and facts regarding the Golf Rules.
    Our Goal for this year is to continue with a weekly format as best we can (weather permitting) 
    Our segments will return and we will introduce the occasional guest.
    In the EP we cover the handful of clarifications made to the rules by the R&A in conjunction with the USGA as well as discussing the GRQOTW as we as an IVOR and Background Bingo.
    Thank you for tuning in once again.
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    39 min
  • Santa's Top 6 Tips to Help Speed Up Play | THE GRQ PODCAST EP22

    The Pace of Play Episode 22

    GolfRules Question of the Week Ep 21 - What is the ruling when air from a blower moves your ball at rest?

    Rossco's team-member question: Adam was on his downswing when another ball distracted him, causing him to shank his shot, does he get a free replay?

    Big P's Question - What can a Rules Official do to stop slow play?

    Santa's Top 6 Tips to Help Speed Up Play

    1. Be Aware When It Is Your Turn to Play.

    2. Let Others Know When It Is Their Turn to Play.

    3. Walk and Talk - If you want to have a conversation, do it whilst you are walking down the fairway or towards the green. Not at the tee, not huddled together in the fairway when someone should be hitting.

    4. Don't Waste Time of the Green - Be At Your Ball and Ready to Play. Don't Wait Until Someone Hits Their Shot to Go to Your Ball (unless you are on their line of play).

    5. Practice Swings Waste Time - If you want to have a practice swing, do so when it isn't your turn to play. Pro Tip - they don't help your score.

    6. Play a Provisional Ball if Your Ball Could be Lost Outside a Penalty Area and/or Out of Bounds.

    Thanks as always for the support of the Segments

    - GolfRules Question of the Week Ep 22 - What is the ruling when you find out that your ball has been picked by another player after a 3 minute search?

    - The Ivors.

    - Background Bingo

    We appreciate you tuning in week in week out.

    Got a question. Hit us Up

    BIG QUESTION - Would you like to see some GRQ Podcast Merch. You know, hats, Tee-Shirts and hoodies etc.

    Please let us know if you would be someone to show your love of the GolfRules by wearing gear such as this.

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    1 hr 3 min
  • Four Golf Rules you might be breaking and not know it. | THE GRQ PODCAST EP21

    Four Rules You May Be Breaking & Not Know It

    In this weeks episode we cover four rules that you or your playing partners may inadvertently be breaking and may not realize.

    Have you been impacted by a golf rules question on course and not been sure?

    Have you come up against any of these scenarios as discussed in the episode.

    We know there are more an will endeavor to include these in future EPs

    Tune in as always and please keep in touch.

    Got a question. Hit us Up

    Thanks as always for the support of the Segments

    - GRQOTW

    - The Ivors, thank you inspector Webb.

    - Background Bingo

    We appreciate you tuning in week in week out.

    BIG QUESTION - Would you like to see some GRQ Podcast Merch. You know, hats, Tee-Shirts and hoodies etc.

    Please let us know if you would be someone to show your love of the GolfRules by wearing gear such as this.

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    Rossco - Serial Golf Podcast Nerd

    My Love of Golf

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    35 min

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