2nd August 2019. Many may think the Golf rules are too pedantic, their opinion may be correct, however rules are rules.
Across fairways many penalty shots fail to be applied by the player and / or their markers; a common offending breach of the rules is a player touching their own, or another player’s ball in play to identify it without first marking it as required within the rules.
The penalty for touching your ball with your club in preparing to make a stroke, under the previous rules was an exception and permitted your club touching your ball at address. However the current rules specifically include touching your ball with your club in the preparation of making a stroke is a 1 shot penalty.
Taking relief is another part of the game causing breaches within the rules because playing from the wrong place often arises in taking relief.
When relief is permitted some players in deciding their nearest point of relief incorrectly consider other features which may interfere with their next stroke and not relevant for the situation from which relief is permitted, consequently select a point which is not the nearest position and the player plays from the wrong place.
Relief is the nearest place the ball would lay to avoid interference with your stance or swing path, from the situation giving you your relief option. Note this position need not be identical for both a right hand and left hand player.
A similar argument is true when taking a penalty drop, except in this case the relief area is two Club lengths measured from the ball position
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