TOUR Report November 26 - Blakey Rules Podcast Episode 143

Blakey Rules Podcast Episode - 143

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BRQOTW 142 - Accidentally moving ball in mimicking practice swing to see if relief is available

Rules question of the episode - ERQ - Episode Rules Question

A player is not considered to have completed a hole in match play merely when the opponent's score for the hole is lower than the player possibly could make? 

Rules question - answer at the end

Rules situations - players playing wrong balls in bunker

Tour Report

• Disagreement about player hitting it near penalty area, but not sure where the ball has gone

• Embedded ball, and whether it had broken the surface if it is hard to determine the level of the surface.

• Applying MLR E-14 and naked eye standard the day after.

Debate a subjective Rule/ruling

• Seams of cut turf

BRQOTW 143 - In stroke play, a player's tee shot on a Par 3 lands in a red penalty area. They address the ball and realise a No Play Zone interferes with their area of intended swing. The player chooses to take relief outside the penalty area, identifies the spot the ball last crossed the edge of it, and using the back-on-the-line procedure correctly drops the ball on the line which comes to rest within 2 club-lengths no nearer the hole and proceeds to play their next stroke. What total penalty applies, including the penalty strokes for taking relief?