95% Known or Virtual Certainty for a Ball That Wasn't Seen to Enter a Penalty Area - THE GRQ PODCAST EP82

GRQOTW #81

D - a ball is not to be redropped simply because the pitch mark of an embedded ball is interfering with the player's stance.

Order of Play in a Playoff

95% Known or Virtual Certainty for a Ball That Wasn't Seen to Enter a Penalty Area

The Shoe Test for Red Ants/Fire Ants

Electronic Form of Scoring - When is the Scorecard Returned?

Ball Moved Another Ball in Bunker

Pace of Play for Professionals

GRQOTW #82 

Marcela plays her 2nd shot on the par 5 2nd hole at Wombat Hills, and the ball heads way right towards a boundary fence, and appears to land in thick grass. As Marcela is not sure if she will find the ball or even if it will be in bounds, she correctly announces and drops a provisional ball in the fairway. After dropping but before playing that ball, a homeowner on the other side of the fence relays to some spotters that the original ball has come to rest on the course and is in the thick tall grass. This message is passed on to Marcela standing in the fairway.  Not wanting to search for her ball in the long grass, Marcela chooses to complete the hole with the dropped ball. After holing out, Marcela asks a referee on the next tee about her previous hole.  Are there any penalty strokes?   What is the ruling?

CLUBLAND STORIES For The Ages - THE GRQ PODCAST EP81 

GRQOTW for 80 - Andy was permitted under Rule 18.3c(2) Exception to continue play with his provisional ball. 

Clubland Story #1  - Ball stuck in flagstick 

Clubland Story #2  - Marking ball with line drawn in the sand 

Clubland Story #3  - Protective fences and how to take relief from them 

Clubland Story #4  - Picking up a ball to take a preferred lie, done in error as they weren't in the required grass cut to fairway height. 

Clubland Story #5  - Forgetting it was stroke play, and then hit the ball away in disgust because they thought they couldn't score anymore points. 

Clubland Story #6  - Opponent talking about the ball in play like they owned it, but then informing the referee that they didn't after asking a tonne of questions.

 Clubland Story #7  - Player blatantly disregards 'known or virtual certainty'and 'ball in play' records a par, then has no regard for letting the Committee know.  

GRQOTW #81 - 

In which of the following is the player not required to drop their ball or another ball again? When the player drops a ball in the right way in the relief area such that it lands in the general area and then rolls: 

A. onto and comes to rest on a putting green when relief was properly taken under Rule 17.1 (Penalty Area) for a ball last crossing the edge of a red penalty area near the putting green. 

B. into and comes to rest in a portion of the relief area that is in a bunker. 

C. to and comes to rest in a position where there is interference for the player's stance by the cart path from which relief was initially taken under Rule 16.1b (Abnormal Course Conditions, Relief for Ball in General Area). 

D. when taking relief under Rule 16.3b (Embedded Ball), the player's ball rolls into a position where their stance is on the location where the ball was embedded.

Between the Tee or Not the Tee, That is the Question - THE GRQ PODCAST EP80

GRQOTW for 79 - Helen must go and identify whether the ball that Charlotte found is her ball and if it is, then that is the ball in play, not the one that was lifted from the hole.

- Blakey arrives back from Qatar after three weeks on tour

- A couple of interesting equipment rulings about tape on the grip, and using a rectangle shaft.

- AND we answer the question as to whether you must hit your ball between the tee markers when starting play of a hole

GRQOTW #80 - Big P and Andy the Average Golfer are playing a match. Andy the Average Golfer has pushed his tee shot well right and thinking it may be lost, plays a provisional ball.  When they arrive at where Andy's ball should be, a group on another tee confirms that his ball entered and came to rest in a very large area of GUR. Andy considers his options for taking free relief from the GUR and decides his next shot over the GUR will be incredibly difficult so he walks back to the fairway and continues play of the hole with his provisional.  Big P claims the hole immediately as Andy the Average Golfer has played a wrong ball - you are called in as the referee - what is your ruling?

OMAN That Was Good - THE GRQ PODCAST EP79 

GRQOTW78 

- No penalty stroke, but it is a recommendation. 

Clubland stories from Hurmeez. 

- Dropping in the relief area 

- Provisional ball after playing a wrong ball 

From Darrell

- Playing from a wrong place and the intention to take an unplayable 

From the Tour 

- Truck that becomes a TIO (similar to Rory last year https://youtu.be/JSZQi6En8T4  

- Burrowing animal hole  

- Taking advice from a four-ball partner when also playing an individual strokeplay. 

GRQOTW79 

- Helen holes her provisional ball, but Charlotte finds Helen's original ball, what is the ruling?

Spotters That Can't Spot - THE GRQ PODCAST EP78

GRQOTW77 - Two penalty strokes, Rule 17.2

Clubland stories from Andy and JKnox.

- are bark chips placed around a tree an immovable obstruction?

- a ball is embedded in the side of the hole, is it holed?

Discussion about score for match play results.

Spotters, are they useful if they can't actually see the ball?

GRQOTW78 - Stuart wants Ross to show him his indentification mark, but Ross refuses, is there a penalty?

The GRQ Podcast #77

GRQOTW76 - Two in total.

Chris Kirk - Sony Open

Davis Thomson - The American Express

Clubland Stories

Stuart - Loose impediments left near the hole. Can an opponent move those loose impediments?

Blakey

Player A hits his 2nd stroke long of the green, thinking it may be out of bounds correctly plays a provisional

He searches for the ball and finds it just under the 3 minutes mark

He return to get a club and when he goes back he can’t find the ball again

Stuart - Follow up on last weeks fourball during an individual stroke round.

GRQOTW77

In stroke play, Claire's tee shot comes to rest within the margins of a red penalty area

but not in the water. Claire makes a stroke at the ball and it dribbles down the bank

into the water and cannot be played. They drop another ball on the bank within the

penalty area in the proper relief area for Rule 17.1d(1). They decide not to play again

from that lie and drop a third ball within two club-lengths of and not nearer the hole than

the spot where their original ball last crossed the edge of the red penalty area. Claire plays

on from there. For this series of events, how many penalty strokes has the player

gotten?

Welcome to 2023 - THE GRQ PODCAST EP76

For our first podcast episode in 2023, Stuart and Blakey speak about:

The answer to GRQOTW75

Clubland stories
#1 4BBB
#2 Ambrose HIO
#3 Course Records
#4 HIO or Lost Ball

 Sandbelt Invitational rulings

GRQOTW 76

Andy the Average Golfer hooks his approach shot on the 4th hole at Wombat Hills and the ball bounces off a concrete cart path into the rough. Andy marks and lifts his ball (Ball A) to see if it is cut or cracked. There is a scuff mark on the ball, so he decides that he is allowed to substitute. He replaces another ball (Ball B) on the spot and miraculously gets it onto the putting green with his next stroke. On the putting green, Ross questions Andy, whom shows him the scuffed ball. Ross strongly disagrees with the substitution, so Andy lifts Ball B from the putting green, replacing Ball A on that spot and holing out. How many penalty strokes, if any, does Andy the Average Golfer incur?

Cathedral and Super 6s Report - THE GRQ PODCAST EP74

GRQOTW #73

Gerry was required to go and identify whether the ball that Fraser had found was his. By not doing so the Committee could possibly disqualify Gerry for serious misconduct under Rule 1.2. Although in 2023, it would simply be a wrong ball penalty if it was found out the ball was indeed Gerry's.

Whilst Blakey has been busy at home with Golf Ops work, Stuart has been out on the road with many tournaments.

Listen in as he covers Rules situations at:

• The Cathedral Invitational
• Gippsland Super 6s

GRQOTW #74 

Helen and Charlotte are partners in foursomes matchplay, playing Andy the Average Golfer and Big P. On the 1st hole at Wombat Hills, Helen has teed off and Charlotte has arrived at the ball in the fairway to make the 2nd stroke for the side. Charlotte marks the spot of Helen's ball and lifts it from the course, replacing her own ball on the spot. One of their opponents, Big P doesn't believe that is allowed and claims the hole. What is the ruling?

Walking and Scoring - THE GRQ PODCAST EP73  

Helen incurred two penalty strokes.  

Stuart and Blakey cover: 

The role of a walker-scorer. 

 Setting up a course for both play by both professional men and women.  

The second opinion.  

GRQOTW for #73 - Gerry is playing Fraser in a match and on the par 3 17th hole at Wombat Hills with the match all square, Gerry hooks his tee shot into long grass. After Fraser plays his tee shot into a greenside bunker, Gerry plays a provisional ball which comes to rest 10cms from the hole. As they start walking towards the green, Gerry declares his ball lost and asks Fraser to not look for it. Knowing Gerry has a possible tap in for a 4, Fraser decides to start searching. As Gerry moves to his provisional ball on the green, Fraser thinks he has found Gerry's original balland calls out, "I have found it". Gerry taps his provisional ball in and replies with, "it doesn't matter, I declared it lost and I have putted". Fraser isn't sure of the Rules and requests a ruling - what is the ruling?