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In this video Neil Tappin and Jezz Ellwood take a look at the rules of golf. They de-mystify 6 rules that can catch regular golfers out. The mistakes in this video are all easily avoidable - but you need to know what they are first. This should help you steer clear of any unwanted penalty shots.
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00:00Hello and welcome to The London Club and this video in which we're going to take a look at
00:03six avoidable golf rules mistakes. Now these are all things that golfers tend to do on the course
00:09that can end up costing them penalty shots. Now those players aren't necessarily trying to break
00:14the rules or gain an advantage but just by not knowing each of these rules in enough detail
00:18they can end up causing themselves a real problem. Now I'm going to be joined in this video by golf
00:24monthly rules guru that's Jez Elwood and he's going to talk you through exactly what you need
00:27to know in each of these scenarios to help you out on the golf course to help you avoid
00:32making any unwanted rules mistakes. Right let's get started.
00:41Okay so Jez I've hit quite a good shot in here. This is the 12th hole at The London Club. I've
00:45carried the water. It doesn't matter that I've only carried it by a few inches. Fair enough.
00:49But I do have this little sprinkler head on my line and the lie is very tight. I'm very keen to putt
00:55this. Okay. I'd be doing everything that I could I think to try and get relief in this scenario.
01:00Tell me what I can and cannot do. Well the only way you'll get relief in that scenario there is if
01:05there's a local rule. Okay. You might think this is puttable therefore I want to putt so I should be
01:11entitled to putt but the rules don't quite see it that way. They would say yes you get relief if you're
01:17standing on it or if your ball is on it but if it's just on your line between you and the flag
01:23there is no automatic relief unless it interferes with your error of intended swing.
01:27And unless I was sort of doing some sort of weird kind of. You would have to
01:29yeah contort things a bit to try and claim that. So it's not that's not happening.
01:33Your first point of call now is the scorecard if you're desperate to putt it and if the scorecard
01:39doesn't have the local rule that allows additional relief for this scenario then you would you could
01:44putt it if you wanted to but you'd be going straight through the sprinkler head. And if the local
01:48rule does exist it will typically say sprinkler head within two club lengths of the green which
01:55that is and if your ball is within two club lengths of that sprinkler head. Which it is. And the
02:00sprinkler head is directly on your line. Which it is. Then you would be entitled to the nearest point
02:04of relief away from that. No I actually haven't looked at the local rules here so I don't know
02:08whether I get relief here. No. In which case I'm going to just play it because I don't want to die.
02:11Again if you've forgotten to check the local rules and none of you have access to them out on the
02:15course. Best to play it as it is. Best to assume that the local rule doesn't exist. This is going to be a test.
02:20Yeah. This will be a test but um well we'll see.
02:29Well it's not brilliant but it's almost a gimme. It's almost a gimme. I think I'll take that. Yeah.
02:33Right so we have a situation here that can cause players some problems. So I've hit my ball
02:46down the right hand side of this hole and I've found as you can see. Yeah. A nasty little spot.
02:50Very nasty tuft. But we've found my ball or at least I think I've found my ball. I now need to
02:55identify it. Yeah. And now the process is involves marking the position of the ball doesn't it. It does
03:01and the problem the avoidable mistake a lot of people make is not marking it position first.
03:07Right okay. Um and if they do that then unfortunately that attracts a penalty. This rule changed a few
03:13years ago so that you didn't have to call your your playing companions over to observe the process
03:19but you do still have to mark the ball before you lift it. Right so you don't have to be here to watch
03:23I don't have to be here though. But I do need to mark the position. I do need to put it back exactly
03:26where it was originally. So I put my tee in into this grass which I can just about see right underneath the
03:31ball. Lift up my ball and I can see from the markings that it's mine. Yeah. But there's
03:37also a bit of mud on my ball here Jez. Can I clean that? Well you can clean that only if you need to
03:43to be able to identify the ball and looking at that. No you can clean it and see on that side. So
03:47that is another breach that will cost you a penalty if you were to clean that ball more than was necessary.
03:52Again that would be a penalty stroke and it's rule 7.3 penalty stroke for both breaches whether you
03:58fail to mark the position or whether you clean it more than is necessary to identify it.
04:03Yeah so put this one back exactly where it was right in this tuft. Yeah and good luck with that.
04:10And I'll have a go at this. It's one of those rules that is easy to get to get wrong. Just make sure
04:16you always mark the position of the ball before you identify it. Find out that it's yours then put it
04:20back exactly where it was. Okay so for this one you're going to need to use a little bit
04:29of imagination. So imagine that this the yellow penalty area stake on the ground in front of us
04:34is not that. Instead it's a white line drawn on the ground to mark out of bounds. Yeah. The question
04:41that we're looking to answer in this part Jez is when is a golf ball in bounds and when is it out of
04:46bounds and the reason that we've put the ball in this very very specific position here is that
04:50depending on the direction of play this ball is either in bounds or out of bounds. Yes. Demystify
04:55please. Okay well let's assume first that this here the side I'm on is the course side edge. So I'm
05:03out of bounds and you're in bounds. That's right. Now if any of the ball is overhanging the course side
05:09it's in bounds. So if you look closely here you can see that some of the ball is over the edge of the
05:14course side edge at the boundary. So although that ball is on the line it is in bounds. Yeah and I
05:19would be able to play this in that direction. You could and you could stand out of bounds to do so
05:23and that wouldn't be a problem. Oh that's good to know. If we flip it round so this is now the
05:28course side over here. So yeah. If you look over the top of it none of the ball is overhanging that edge
05:35so although that ball is also on the line that would be out of bounds if we were playing that way. And
05:40oh the heart is broken in that scenario isn't it. By what half a centimeter maybe. As much as you might
05:45be standing there looking at it trying to figure out a way to to call that as in in play it's not
05:50it's out of bounds. It is and your only option then is to go back and replay under stroke and distance if
05:56you haven't already played a provisional ball which you would then have to move across and play if you
06:01had. Yeah so it's actually it's pretty clear but all the thing you need to understand is is any of the
06:07golf ball overhanging the course side. If it is you're inbounds. If it's not you're out.
06:21Oh. Oh that was to win the hole. Yeah that was tough but um I hope you're not just going to go
06:28ahead and tap that in. I was. Match play I'm now the ball further from the hole the order of play
06:36in match plays the player further from the hole as it is in stroke play but in stroke play ready golf
06:41allows you to do whatever you you want almost. Yes. But in match play it's a different kettle of fish
06:47if you go ahead and tap that in you've played out of turn. Yes. Um I could in theory ask that you
06:55replay the shot in the correct order by which time it might be a little bit harder to hole possibly.
07:01Hard to hole. Which is the reason for the rule really. A frosty relationship. Yeah well undoubtedly
07:05yes. If I make this then your little insurance policy potential is gone. As you say it's an awkward
07:12scenario that you you want to avoid so um best just to remember that in match play you have no
07:19no right to hole out if your ball is closer to the hole than your opponents. Yeah this one is on me
07:25I needed to go straight up and mark this one to avoid any kind of awkward situation between us
07:30that's the best thing to do isn't it? Yeah it's definitely the best thing to do so just remember
07:34while in ready in stroke play ready golf would perhaps encourage you to walk up and tap that in
07:39it's not quite the same in match play. Okay go on then Jez knock yours in. Okay. Or miss it.
07:44Oh no. Oh no. So I've got that to win the hole. You can have that. Thank you.
08:04Tricky shot this. It's the wind. I have to lean on this a bit to get it there.
08:08Uh huh. Um. Ah. Okay. Right. Well. Okay. Now allow me to just stop you there before you hit that.
08:21Yeah. We have a scenario here and we get, I get a lot of emails about this. People who think that
08:28there is now no penalty for you accidentally moving your ball anywhere on the golf course and that's not
08:34the case. There are some exceptions now that weren't there before but if you move your ball like you
08:39did there when you put the club down behind it the ball moved an inch didn't it? Yep. It's come off this
08:45tuft. It's now in a much worse line. It is. Quite looking forward to hitting it off there. Yeah well
08:48you will get to hit it off there in a minute. Okay that's good. Because what people often fail to do,
08:52A they don't realize it's still a penalty um for accidental movement but it is under rule 9.4 but
08:59you also have to now replace the ball before you play it. Right. So you've now got to try and
09:04replace it back on that that tuft that it was invitingly sitting on. It was.
09:09And then play it. So there's a penalty for causing the ball to move but if you had played it from the
09:14place it rolled to there's a worse penalty of the general penalty for playing from the wrong place.
09:19So that would be two strokes in stroke play or instant loss of hole in match play. It's an interesting
09:24one there. So I mean the general rule of thumb Jess would be if you've moved the ball anywhere on the
09:28golf course it's got to go back to where it originally was right? That's the case yes. Yeah. Yeah. If you've,
09:32if you've, if you're deemed to have caused it to move. Yeah. But if you've, if it's happened on the
09:36putting green. Yeah. No penalty. No but you still have to replace it. You have to replace it. Yeah.
09:40But if it's happened here. Yeah. Ah. Yeah. That's probably the only other issue um that has changed
09:47since the rules um had the big makeover in 2019 is you're no longer penalized if you cause the ball to
09:52move when you're looking for it. Ah okay yes. But again you have to replace it in the spot it was in
09:58estimating it to the best of your ability if you can't be a hundred percent sure exactly where it
10:02was. And you know if you weren't stood here I think in that scenario I would probably always
10:06call over my playing part at least one playing partner to say look this has just happened. Yeah.
10:10I'm now not improving my life by moving it I'm putting it back to where it originally was. Yeah. Penalty
10:14shot. Yeah. And then get on with it. So now you've got to you know you'll know this time that
10:18it's best not to put the club down behind the ball before attempting to play. Yeah I've now made I've made a
10:23tricky shot. It's somewhat harder because I'm in a now in a bad mood as well. Let's give it a go.
10:31Oh get down. Oh no it's gone left. This is going to end up quite a big score I'm afraid.
10:38Just short of the gorse but you're probably chipping for a bogey at best I would think.
10:53Oh it's down. Gone left. It's quite thick in the rough over there. It is at the moment isn't it.
11:00I think I'm gonna have to hit another one. Ah.
11:05Okay so I see you've teed it up a bit more but what you haven't done is something that's fairly
11:10important at this point if you're playing in a competition and that is to make it obvious that
11:14this is a provisional ball and you only want to use it if you can't find the original. Right so me just
11:20saying in that scenario I'm going to hit another one. Yeah. That's not good enough. It's not enough.
11:25No you've either got to say I'm going to hit a provisional or you've got to indicate very clearly
11:29that the ball you're hitting is one that you only want to use if you can't find the original and I
11:34think if you look into the decisions or the interpretations whatever they're called these
11:38days it says phrases like I'm going to hit another one just in case are good enough. Right okay.
11:43But if you just say I'm going to hit another one that ball would automatically become the ball in play
11:47even if you find your original ball in a perfect line. And when it comes to the rules of golf
11:52clarity is everything and so I would always advise people just to say I'm going to hit a provisional.
11:57It just avoids any kind of doubt in a situation like this. Yes. And the other thing I would say is
12:02that we often get comments on our videos saying oh why are you taking this is all a bit over the top
12:07this is all a bit much who cares. Well that's fine if you're just playing in a friendly isn't it. You do what you like in a friendly.
12:12Whatever I mean if you were playing in a friendly and I said I'm going to hit another one here. Yeah.
12:15You're not going to suddenly invoke a penalty on me. Well I might do. I'd hope you would. We wouldn't
12:19play much friendly golf together after that. No. But this is this is not for people who are just
12:24bunting around with their mates. This is just trying to help people who might find themselves playing in
12:28a competition. Someone calls them up on something like this and they get a bit aggrieved but it's really
12:34a matter of just knowing what you have to do. Yeah or they're playing for their handicap. Those things that's where it's
12:39important that you know rules like this and you don't end up making avoidable mistakes.
12:44So there you have it. That's our look at avoidable golf rules mistakes. If you do have any questions
12:49please feel free to leave some comments below. We understand that at times the rules of golf can
12:53feel quite complicated. They're there for a reason and it really does pay to know them in as much detail
12:58as you can. And that's it for now from The London Club. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time.
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