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Rerief
Situations and Procedure
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Rule
20
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Lifting,
Dropping and Placing; Playing from Wrong Place
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20-3.
Placing and Replacing
a. By Whom and Where
A ball to be placed under the Rules shall be placed by the player
or his partner. If a ball is to be replaced, the player, his partner
or the person who lifted or moved it shall
place it on the spot from which it was lifted or moved. In any such
case, the player shall be responsible for any breach of the Rules.
If a ball or ball-marker is accidentally
moved in the process of placing
or replacing the ball. the ball or the ball-marker shall be replaced.
There is no penalty provided the movement of the ball or the
ball-marker is directly attributable to the specific act of placing
or replacing the ball or removing the ball-matker. Otherwise, the
player shall incur a penalty stroke under
Rule 18-2a or 20-1.
b. Lie of Ball to be Placed or Replaced Altered
If the original lie of a ball to be placed or replaced has been
altered:
(i) except in a hazard. the
ball shall be placed in the nearest lie most similar to the original
lie which is not more than one club-length from the original lie,
not nearer the hole and not in a hazard;
(ii) in a water hazard, the
all shall be placed in accodance with Cluase (i) above, except that
the ball must be placed in the water hazard;
(iii) in a bunker, the original
lie shall be recreated as nearly as possible and the ball shall
be
placed in that lie.
c. Spot not Determinateble
f it is impossible to determind the spot where the ball is to be
placed or replaced:
(i) thought the green, the ball
shall be dropped as near as possible to the place where it lay
but not in a hazard or on a
putting green;
(ii) in a hazard, the ball shall
be dropped in the hazard as near as possible to the place where
it lay;
(iii) on the putting green,
the ball shall be placed as near as possible to the place where
it
lay but not in a hazard.
d. Ball Fails to Come to Rest on Spot
If a ball when placed failed to come to rest on the spot on which
it was placed, it shall be
replaced without penalty. If it stil fails to come to rest on that
spot:
(i) except in a hazard, it shall
be placed at the nearest spot where it can be placed at rest
which is not nearer the hole and not in a hazard;
(ii) in a hazard, it shall be placed in the hazard at the nearest
spot where it can be placed at
rest which it not nearer the hole.
If a Ball when placed comes to rest on the spot on which it is placed,
and it subsequently
moves, there is no penalty and
the ball shall be played as it lies, unless the provisions of any
other Rule apply.
PENALTY FOR BREACH OF RULE 20-1, -2 or
-3:
Match play - Loss of hole
Stroke play - Two strokes.
20-4.
When Ball Dropped or Placed Is in Play
If the player's ball in play
has been lifted. it is again in I when dropped or placed.
A substituted ball becomes the ball in play when it has been dropped
or placed.
(Ball incorrectly substituted -see Rule 15-1.)
(Lifting ball incorrectly substituted. dropped or place see Rule
20-6.)
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