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Strange but true: I slapped a crash on 10 feet, but before I could come to the Green to mark my ball, my companion shot from a greenside bunker. As a cue ball on a pool table, his golf ball hit mine so square that his immediately came to a dead stop in the precise place where mine, a few meters away, had just been. I know I had to replace my ball where it had been … what was the place that was occupied by the ball of my play partner. So, who is going first? Is one of us choosing? Munt Flip? —ERIC SILDON, Arlington, va
So two questions here: what to do with replacing the ball and who goes first.
Rule 15.3 deals with interfering golf balls; In essence, the two are to continue (1) to let one player mark their ball and then tension their ball marker and replace yours, or (2) wait and let the other player go first and then replace your ball.
If you choose option one and the other player does not just want to let it go first, because the balls are at the same distance from the gap rule 6.4 says to use any method, that is, yes, turn a coin. Then do the BAL marker dance to get out of the way of the other player and continue in the order that the coin has determined.
Read on for more ball replacement-related guidelines of our guru …
My drive rolled from the fairway on a bent, cobbled carpad – and then continued to roll the path back to the path at least 100 meters to the Tee box. I was told that I could put the ball back on the Fairway with the point that he rolled on the shopping cart without a penalty. Is this correct? —Wolf Dorak, Ontario, Canada
Wolf, Guy rules cries with laughter – who you tell that that must be kicked on the sidewalk.
There is no such solution, whether the ball has withdrawn a garden or 100 meters. See line 16.1 on how you can take lighting from a carpad.
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