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Ball
Moved, Deflected or Stopped
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Rule
19
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Ball
in Motion Deflected or Stopped
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Definitions
An outside agency is any agency
not part of the match or, in stroke play, not part of the
competitor's side, and includes a referee,
a marker, an observer
and a forecaddie.
Neither wind nor water is an outside agency.
Equipment is anything used, worn or carried by or for the player
except any ball he has played
at the hole being played and any small object, such as a coin
or a tee, when used to mark the
position of a ball or the extent of an area in which a ball is
to be dropped. Equipment includes
a golf cart, whether or not motorised. If such a cart is shared
by two or more players, the cart
and everything in it are deemed to be the equipment of the player
whose ball is involved
except that, when the cart is being moved by one of the players
sharing it, the cart and every-
thing in it are deemed to be that player's equipment.
*Note: A ball played at the
hole being played is equipment when it has been lifted and not
put
back into play.
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19-1. By Outside Agency
If a ball in motion is accidentally deflected or stopped by any
outside agency, it is a rub
of
the green, no penalty is incurred and the ball shall
be played as it lies except:
a. If a ball in motion after a stroke other than on the putting
green comes to rest in or on any
moving or animate outside agency,
the player shall, through the green
or in a hazard,
drop the ball, or on the putting green place the ball, as near as
possible to the spot where the
outside agency was when the ball came to rest in or on it, and
b. If a ball in motion after a stroke
on the putting green is deflected
or stopped by,or comes
to rest in or on, any moving or animate outside
agency except a worm or an insect, the
stroke shall be cancelled, the ball replaced and the stroke replayed.
If the ball is not immediately recoverable, another ball may be
substituted.
(Player's ball deflected or stopped by another ball -see Rule 19-5.)
*Note: If the referee
or the Committee determines
that a player's ball has been purposely
deflected or stopped by an outside agency.
Rule 1-4 applies to the player. If the outside
agency is a fellow-competitor
or his caddie. Rule 1-2 applies
to the fellow-competitor.
19-2. By Player, Partner,
Caddie or Equipment
a. Match Play
If a player's ball is accidentally deflected or stopped by himself,
his partner or either of their
caddies or equipment,
he shall lose the hole.
b. Stroke Play
If a competitor's ball is accidentally deflected or stopped by himself,
his partner or either of
their caddies or equipment,
the competitor shall incur a penalty of two
strokes. The ball
shall be played as it lies, except when it comes to rest in or on
the competitor's, his partner's
or either of their caddies' clothes or equipment, in which case
the competitor shall through
the green or in a hazard
drop the ball, or on the putting green
place the ball; as near as
possible to where the article was when the ball came to rest in
or on it.
Exception: Dropped ball -see
Rule 20-2a.
(Ball purposely deflected or stopped by player, partner or caddie
-see Rule 1-2.)
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