Friday, April 19, 2013

Two out of Three!

We still have not managed to get all three rounds in this week, but we are improving in games and number of players, averaging in the mid-teens for each round! Jeff said 18 had signed up for our cancelled Wednesday morning! Darn. But it was sorely needed rain that day. Did any of you notice how green the course became literally overnight? Soooo beautiful! Remember these days in late July, girls!

Jeff presented the second "Rule of the Week": Hitting another player's ball. 

In Match play, if a player makes a stroke at a wrong ball, he loses the hole.
If the wrong ball belongs to another player, its owner must place a ball on the spot from which the wrong ball was first played.
If the player and opponent exchange balls during the play of a hole, the first to make a stroke at a wrong ball loses the hole; when this cannot be determined, the hole must be played out with the balls exchanged.

This rule applies most often to BCC LGA( Stroke play):
If a competitor makes a stroke or strokes at a wrong ball, he incurs a penalty of two strokes.
The competitor must correct his mistake by playing the correct ball or by proceeding under the Rules. If he fails to correct his mistake before making a stroke on the next teeing ground or, in the case of the last hole of the round, fails to declare his intention to correct his mistake before leaving the putting green, he is disqualified.
Strokes made by a competitor with a wrong ball do not count in his score. If the wrong ball belongs to another competitor, its owner must place a ball on the spot from which the wrong ball was first played.

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