6th
November 15
We
have all been there, a ball pulled or pushed into the tree line. Finding our
ball under the trees with a dubious back swing and passing a comment to your
colleagues “If it was your ball it would not have ended up in this position”.
And so to the point, which is that during this time of the year in particular, a
reminder to take more care and attention to avoid improving your stance or lie
as I witnessed last week.
Upon
taking his stance and addressing his ball a player took his back swing and
caught the branches and a shower of leaves fell off the branch, he checked his
back-swing. Re addressed the ball and played the ball. It may seem unfair but he
had improved his Lie and two penalty shots should be applied by his marker in
this situation.
After
dislodging the leaves, had the player continued with the stroke, and played the
ball then no penalty can be applied. Reference Rule 13
Another
player played his 2nd shot on the 15th and pulled the ball
left into the tree line; he walked forward and had a brief look in the leaf
covered area, then declared he would play a provisional ball and walked back and
played a second ball. He then walked forward again, this time leaves had moved
in the breeze and his ball was visible. He continued play of the hole with the
original ball.
By
walking forward to search he was not entitled to return and correctly play a
provisional ball, in doing so he played the wrong ball and incurred a two shot
penalty. - Sheriff
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