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Rule 17-1 Rule 17-1 allows the player to have the flagstick attended, removed or held up prior to a stroke from anywhere on the golf course. Most players already know about attending the flagstick for a long putt from the putting green, but it is also useful to know that you could have someone hold the flag- stick up directly over the hole prior to a blind shot from below the green if necessary.


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Rule 20-6 Rule 20-6 is


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If your ball lies on the putting green, the line of putt may be indicated to you by your caddie, your partner or his or her caddie, but they must make sure not to touch the putting green in doing so.


Rule 17-1 allows the player to have the flagstick attended, removed or held up prior to a stroke from anywhere on the golf course.


can’t see over a hill, your fellow-competitor could go and stand on the line of play so you can figure out where to hit. You must make sure that he or she moves prior to making the stroke. If your ball lies on the


putting green, the line of putt may be indicated to you by your caddie, your partner or his or her caddie; but your partner must make sure not to touch the put- ting green in doing so.


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Rule 26-2a gives the player options for relief with reference to the point where the ball last crossed the margin of the first water hazard.


called the “Eraser Rule” because it erases a mistake made by the player in dropping, placing or substituting a ball incorrectly. If you accidentally drop or place a ball in a wrong place, in an improper manner, or substitute a ball when not permit- ted to but you have not played it yet, Rule 20-6 permits you to pick up that ball and then proceed correctly, as the rules require, without penalty.


Rule 26-2 Rule 26-2 is referred to as the “Regression Rule” because it prevents the player


from regressing further into trouble when playing from out of a water hazard. If you play a ball from inside a water hazard and the ball comes to rest in the same hazard or even another water hazard, Rule 26-2a gives the player original options for relief with reference to the point where the ball last crossed the margin of the first water hazard, or to return to the spot where the last stroke was made from outside the water hazard under penalty of one stroke. If you play a ball from a water hazard and it comes to rest out of bounds or in an


unplayable lie, Rule 26-2b gives you those same additional options with reference to where the ball last crossed the margin of that water hazard and the last spot where a stroke was made from outside the hazard. The player would incur the penalty stroke under 27-1 or 28 for the ball out of bounds or an unplayable ball, and an additional penalty stroke for relief under 26-2. That sounds like a lot, but it might cost you three or four more strokes to get out of trouble without Rule 26-2.


Email RYAN at rfarb@ncga.org FALL 2013 / NCGA.ORG / 65


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