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(rules primer
)
Getting Familiar with a Friend
Many golfers don't know the Rules, but learning them can
often be a benefit.
By Joseph Oberle
R
ules gurus like to say that knowledge of the Rules
of Golf can be a benefit to a player-as opposed to
the perception that the Rules will always cost you.
Considering the Rules to be your friend may be hard to do when
you're tallying up stroke and distance for a lost ball just a couple
of yards off the fairway.
But in many cases, a little rules knowledge can be a good thing.
Take, for instance, the scenario sent in by MGA member Loren
Hegland, in which players hit their original balls rather than the
provisional balls they thought they were playing.
Hegland's scenario may be more common than it would
appear. How many of us have opened a new sleeve of shiny
Pro-V1 balls, stuffed two in our back pocket and teed the third
one up-all without making any kind of personal markings on
any of the balls for identification purposes?
Since our swings are more consistent than our pre-round
equipment checks, we slice the original drive into the right rough
near a hazard, where it could be tough to find. We tee up a provisional
ball (after declaring it so) and hit it to the same area as
the first ball.
Since neither golf ball is personalized, we find the original,
thinking it is the provisional, and play a shot onto the green of
the par 4, two-putt and then mark down a six. Once the ball
is examined, we see it has a nice nick from the cart path two
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