Ep #65 GRQ

GRQOTW EP64

Charlotte and Helen are playing a match. On the par 3 3rd hole at Wombat Hills, Charlotte hits her tee shot long and it goes OB. Helen saw that Charlotte had played from outside the teeing area and tells her this. Charlotte asks, "so what does that mean?"  Helen explains that she has the right to cancel the stroke however as her ball went OB, she decides not to.  Charlotte tees it up again this time inside the teeing area and plays her 3rd shot onto the green, 5m from the hole. Helen's tee shot is only 3m from the hole and says, "Thanks Charlotte, that is my hole."  Why would she say that and is she correct?

As Helen didn’t recall Charlotte’s shot, that meant that Charlotte was to play from their previous play, which in this case was from outside the teeing area. Charlotte didn’t play it from outside the teeing area as prescribed, and therefore she played from a wrong place, which means the opponent wins the hole.

International Series Singapore

Weather delays on Saturday and Sunday, due to lightning, meant the horns came out and players were removed from the course. Including on the 18th hole for the final group, which delayed the finale for over an hour.

Ball played from Penalty Area is lost outside of penalty area. Ball dropped back inside penalty area, within one club-length of previous place played, precariously close to water edge.

Pace of Play - singapore was very slow for pace of play, this was in part due to the heat, although you would think that player’s would be keen to play faster when it is hot. But they prefer to be sloths, and limit the energy expelled. We also had preferred lies adopted, within a scorecard length, which mean every time the player’s ball was on the grass cut to fairway height they would pick their ball up, which delayed their play further, although we didn’t take that into account for their specific time limit - 40 or 50 seconds, it certainly counted towards their time limit for the hole.

International Series Korea

Had a couple of rulings around whether the ball was in the fairway or in the rough, because preferred lies had also been adopted.

Had a couple of rulings on the 14th hole which is almost an island green, with two thirds of the green surrounded by water, and it was a yellow penalty area, so back to the tee, and drop zone were the obvious and commonly used applications, but a couple of times the player could take back on the line and then hit over a corner of the penalty area.

And finally a ruling which made it to camera about my favourite, the embedded ball, which was in the rough, but the player was able to get a club-length away, much to the surprise of the commentator. I will get that video out soon.

GRQOTW

Ross' tee shot has gone into a red penalty area.  He decides to take lateral relief and measures out two club lengths from the reference point.  His relief area is on a steep slope heading into the water.  He drops a ball into the relief area and it starts rolling towards the water, so he stops it with his foot.  He drops it again in the relief area and again it heads quickly towards the water, so he stops it.  When he lifts his foot, the ball stays at rest within the RA and Ross plays it from that spot.   Aside from the one stroke penalty for the PA relief, how many penalty strokes must Ross add, if any and why?