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What Is The General Penalty? - Golf Rules Explained
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Neil Tappin is joined by rules guru Jeremy Ellwood to look at some of the simple rules related mistakes golfers are making. They offer 5 rules penalties every golfer needs to avoid covering what happens in some crucial scenarios on the course.
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Hello and welcome to the London Club and this video looking at the five rules penalties that
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every golfer really needs to avoid and these are all things that are careless mistakes that golfers
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might make and I think if you play the game for long enough over enough years you'll probably end
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up making a few of these mistakes at some point and they can cost you penalty shots but hopefully
00:20
after watching this video you'll be able to avoid them. Right let's head out now onto the
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heritage course here at the London Club look at our first golf rules mistake. Okay so the first one
00:34
on our list relates to equipment and in particular these things your laser rangefinders. Now I've
00:39
already zapped the flag here and I found out that it's 199 yards. We're on the 17th hole of the
00:44
heritage course at the London Club. It's 199 but it's downhill and this tells me it's playing 192.
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Very handy in practice. Yes. But? But if you're at this stage of a round in a competition and you've
00:56
had that slope function on for the whole round I'm afraid you would be disqualified. Oh no, I'm out.
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Yeah. Rule 4.3a gives you one strike and you're out almost. The first offence, first breach, whatever
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you want to call it, of leaving the slope function on is a two-shot penalty or a loss of hole in match
01:12
play but if you then zap another yardage on the next hole that second offence and anyone's beyond that
01:18
mean you are no longer playing in this competition. Oh no. And so you've got to be careful because
01:24
on the side of the rangefinders is often a little switch that you can toggle on and off. Here it
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says slope addition when it's in slope. I'd need to just push that down now I'm out of slope and I can
01:35
use this in competition. It's the sort of thing that you can accidentally leave on. You can and
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you know if you realise too late then it is as you say bad news. Yes, beware.
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Okay so this one Jez is really carelessness isn't it? Carelessness, lack of patience, lack of ability
01:56
to control the putter I suppose really as well. Which is one of my problems. Talk me through what's
02:00
going on here. Well we're talking about a scenario on the putting green, both balls are on the putting
02:04
green in stroke play. You putt and you hit another ball at rest because someone's raking a bunker and
02:09
faffing around somewhere and you think I'm not going to hit it. You haven't asked them to mark it.
02:13
You're pretty sure you're not going to hit it and then the thing goes off in your hands and you do
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hit it. Yeah so it's just an avoidable mistake but it can cost you can't it? It costs you two
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shots in stroke play. You have to then replace the ball that was struck where it was. Your ball stays
02:27
where it is. So I guess that may help you perhaps in a way in that it would have stopped it going further
02:33
past the hole but you've cost yourself. And in match play? In match play no penalty. Again the ball is
02:38
replaced and everyone just carries on with their business as if nothing happened. A lot of these
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just be wary of what could potentially happen in a situation like this. If there is another ball
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somewhere near the hole then ask that player to mark it. Definitely because it's a needless
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shot given away just like that. Okay so for this one I'm going to talk you through the following
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scenario which I think is probably fairly common actually. Definitely yeah. This is just to the
03:04
right of the 17th green. Quite heavy rough around here. Let's imagine I've blazed my tee shot out to
03:09
the right and I'm in here somewhere. And I come down and I see a golf ball in the rough. I can see
03:14
it's a tight list. Fantastic. Mine's a tight list. Brilliant. It's exactly where I think it is. So I'm
03:19
going to play it. What am I in danger of doing here Jess? Well I think people do this quite a lot. Don't
03:23
know you're in danger of playing a wrong ball. I think maybe people are so relieved they found a ball
03:28
where they think theirs was going to be that they don't perhaps follow the checking procedures
03:32
carefully enough before then playing it. Okay so that begs the question then. What is the
03:37
checking procedure? So I come down. Yep. Instead of just going off to my golf bag to grab a club I'm
03:42
going to actually have a look at this. But how do I do it? Okay so you can't see that it's yours from
03:45
where it's lying. You can't see the marking. So you're allowed to lift it to identify it but you must
03:50
mark the position of the ball first. With tee peg? T-peg ideal. Lift it up. Check it's yours. You can't clean it
03:57
other than the extent necessary to be able to identify it as yours. There's nothing on that
04:01
one anyway. Pop it back down and then play on if it is indeed yours. But if it isn't yours that's when
04:07
we run into trouble. So if you haven't gone through that checking procedure and just gone ahead and
04:11
played it. Yeah and so quickly Jess what's the penalty for playing a wrong ball? Okay well the
04:15
penalty is the general penalty. So in match play it would be loss of hole. Right. In stroke play it
04:19
would be two shots so it's quite severe. But you also have to then correct the error in a timely fashion
04:24
stroke play and that means before you hit your tee shot on the next hole or if it's the last hole
04:29
before you return your scorecard. Okay. And if you don't correct your error in time I'm afraid it's
04:35
the old DQ. Oh dear. So I mean beware. In scenarios like this it is possible that you could play a wrong
04:43
ball and it would be incredibly frustrating to get penalised for that so watch out.
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Okay so we've manufactured the situation here so you're gonna have to go with us a bit on this but
04:55
it's not uncommon and it's well worth knowing. So my golf ball is on the edge of the collar and the
05:00
fairway. There's a loose impediment a twig next to it so I'm gonna move that twig. Yes. Because I know
05:06
that I can under the rules I can move loose impediments. You can but in this case it was perhaps an
05:13
unwise thing to do. Yes. Because your ball has now moved. It's moved an inch. It has now I think a lot
05:18
of people now for various reasons think there's no penalty for accidental movement of your ball
05:23
in the general area of the golf course which is where we are. Yes. Fairway rough fringe whatever but
05:28
there is still a penalty if you cause your ball to move and in that scenario there it was clearly
05:32
your movement of the twig that made the ball move therefore you are penalised one stroke. Ouch. And
05:38
you must put the ball back where it was. Why the confusion do you think? Well I think because you're
05:43
no longer penalised for accidental movement of the ball on the putting green. You're no longer
05:47
penalised for accidental movement of the ball when you're searching for it. I think people have maybe
05:52
read too much into that and think that you can actually just accidentally move your ball anywhere
05:57
and it's fine just replace it carry on. Well you do replace it and carry on but there is a one stroke
06:01
penalty accompanying it. Yes so be careful again like all of these just be careful of what you're doing.
06:06
Make sure that that loose impediment that you're about to move is not going to cause the ball to
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move then you should be fine. So this one is all about something you have to do on your scorecard
06:19
after your round. Jez what are we talking about here? Well I mean the critical thing we were looking
06:24
at here is that you must sign the scorecard to attest the score that you've just compiled. I guess
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sometimes you come off the course you're a bit flustered you've made a mess of the last someone
06:34
distracts you when you're on the box. Yeah it's hot you want a drink. Your mind's not quite there
06:38
and suddenly the card's in the box without your signature on it and then you could have played
06:43
your heart out for four hours and it will all be to no avail because you will be disqualified. Yeah
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and it's interesting because I think the more we head down this route of a lot of us using apps for
06:53
scoring maybe people get out of the kind of mindset of filling out a sort of an old-fashioned scorecard
06:58
as it were but there are going to be tournaments when you need to do it and if you do do it then you need
07:02
to put your signature on it. You do. And the other thing Jez is with the individual scores like the
07:07
main thing what else do you need to do? Well I mean you've also got to make sure your marker
07:10
assigned it and that your handicap is correct so you're signing to say you played off the correct
07:15
handicap and then beyond that the gross scores you've got to make sure they're correct for each
07:20
individual hole you don't have to do any of the maths. Okay. That's not your responsibility and the
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one to be really wary of here is you signing for a score on an individual hole that is lower than that
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which you actually achieved. Because if you do that? If you do that again I'm afraid it's four
07:35
fruitless hours and the big DQ against your name. Yeah so as with a lot of these just make sure you
07:41
take that care and attention your scorecard is a very valuable thing if you get it wrong it could be
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really costly. So there you have it that's a look at our five rules penalties golfers really need to
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avoid. If you think there's anything probably more important actually in there that people miss out
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and the sort of careless mistakes rules related that they might make on the golf course leave some
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comments below. If you've liked the video please do hit the like button as well. But that's it for
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now from the London Club. We'll see you next time.
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