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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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00:00Hello and welcome to the London Club and this video looking at the five rules penalties that
00:05every golfer really needs to avoid and these are all things that are careless mistakes that golfers
00:11might make and I think if you play the game for long enough over enough years you'll probably end
00:15up making a few of these mistakes at some point and they can cost you penalty shots but hopefully
00:20after watching this video you'll be able to avoid them. Right let's head out now onto the
00:24heritage course here at the London Club look at our first golf rules mistake. Okay so the first one
00:34on our list relates to equipment and in particular these things your laser rangefinders. Now I've
00:39already zapped the flag here and I found out that it's 199 yards we're on the 17th hole of the heritage
00:44course at the London Club it's 199 but it's downhill and this set tells me it's playing 192.
00:49Very handy in practice yes but but if you're at this stage of a round in a competition and you've
00:56had that slope function on for the whole round I'm afraid you would be disqualified. Oh no I'm out.
01:01Yeah rule 4.3a gives you one strike and you're out almost you the first offence first breach whatever
01:06you want to call it of leaving the slope function on is a two-shot penalty or a loss of hole in match
01:12play but if you then zap another yardage on the next hole that second offence and anyone's beyond that
01:19mean you are no longer you're a goner you are no longer playing in this competition. Oh no and so
01:23you've got to be careful because on the side of the rangefinders is often a little switch that you
01:28can toggle on and off here it says slope addition when it's in slope I'd need to just push that down
01:33now I'm out of slope and I can use this in competition it's the sort of thing that you can
01:37accidentally leave leave on. You can and you know if you realize too late then it is as you say
01:43bad news. Yes beware. Okay so this one Jez is really carelessness isn't it? Carelessness lack of
01:54patience lack of ability to control the putter I suppose really as well. Which is one of my problems
01:59talk me through what's going on here. Well we're talking about a scenario on the putting green both
02:03balls are on the putting green in stroke play you putt and you hit another ball at rest because
02:07someone's raking a bunker and faffing around somewhere and you think. Right you haven't asked
02:12them to mark it. You haven't asked them to mark it you're pretty sure you're not going to hit it
02:14and then the thing goes off in your hands and you do hit it. Yeah so it's just an avoidable mistake
02:19but it can cost you can't it? Cost you it costs you two shots in stroke play you have to then replace
02:24the ball that was struck where it was your ball stays where it is so I guess that may help you
02:30perhaps in a way and that it would have stopped it going further past the hole but you've cost yourself
02:35and in match play? In match play no penalty again the ball is replaced and everyone just carries
02:40on with their business as if nothing happened. A lot of these just be wary of what could potentially
02:45happen in a situation like this if there is another ball somewhere near the hole then ask
02:48that player to mark it. Definitely because it's a needless shot given away just like that.
02:57Okay so for this one I'm going to talk you through the following scenario which I think is probably
03:01fairly common actually. Definitely yeah. This is just to the right of the 17th green quite heavy
03:06rough around here let's imagine I've blazed my tee shot out to the right and I'm in here somewhere
03:11and I come down and I see a golf ball in the rough I can see it's a tight list fantastic mine's a tight
03:16list brilliant it's exactly where I think it is so I'm going to play it what am I in danger of doing
03:21here? Well I think people do this quite a lot don't know you're in danger of playing a wrong ball
03:25I think maybe people are so relieved they found a ball where they think theirs was going to be that they don't
03:30and perhaps follow the checking procedures carefully enough before then playing it.
03:34Okay so that begs the question then what is the checking procedure so I come down
03:39Yep. Instead of just going off to my golf bag to grab a club I'm going to actually have a look at
03:42this but how do I do it? Okay so you can't see that it's yours from where it's lying you can't see the
03:47marking so you're allowed to lift it to identify it but you must mark the position of the ball first.
03:52With TPEG? TPEG ideal, lift it up, check it's yours, you can't clean it other than the extent
03:59necessary to be able to identify it as yours there's nothing on that one anyway pop it back
04:03down and then play on if it is indeed yours but if it isn't yours that's when we run into trouble
04:08so if you haven't gone through that checking procedure and just gone ahead and played it.
04:11Yeah and so quickly Jez what's the penalty for playing a wrong ball? Okay well the penalty is
04:15the general penalty so in match play it would be loss of hole right in stroke play it would be two
04:20shots so it's quite severe but you also have to then correct the error in a timely fashion in stroke
04:25play and that means before you hit your tee shot on the next hole or if it's the last hole before
04:30you return your scorecard and if you don't correct your error in time I'm afraid it's the old DQ.
04:36Oh dear so I mean beware in scenarios like this it is possible that you could play a wrong ball and
04:43it would be incredibly frustrating to get penalized for that so watch out.
04:47Okay so we've manufactured a situation here so you're going to have to go with us a bit on this
04:55but it's not uncommon and it's well worth knowing so my golf ball is on the edge of the collar and
05:00the fairway there's a loose impediment a twig next to it so I'm going to move that twig yes because I
05:06know that I can under the rules I can move loose impediments you can but in this case it was perhaps
05:12an unwise thing to do because your ball has now moved it's moved an inch it has now I think a lot
05:17of people now for various reasons think there's no penalty for accidental movement of your ball
05:23in the general area of the golf course which is where we are yes fairway rough fringe whatever but
05:28there is still a penalty if you cause your ball to move and in that scenario there it was clearly your
05:32movement of the twig that made the ball move therefore you are penalized one stroke ouch and you must put
05:38the ball back where it was why is that why the confusion do you think well I think because
05:42you're no longer penalized for accidental movement of the ball on the putting green
05:46you're no longer penalized for accidental movement of the ball when you're searching for it I think
05:51people have maybe read too much into that and think that you can actually just accidentally move
05:56your ball anywhere and it's fine just replace it carry on well you do replace it and carry on but
06:01there's a one stroke penalty accompanying it yes so be careful again like all of these just be careful
06:05what you're doing make sure that that loose impediment that you're about to move is not going to cause
06:09the ball to move then you should be fine so this one is all about something you have to do on your
06:18scorecard after your round Jez what are we talking about here well I mean the critical thing we were
06:24looking at here is that you must sign the scorecard to attest the score that you've just compiled I guess
06:30sometimes you come off the course you're a bit flustered you've made a mess of the last someone
06:34distracts you when you're yeah it's hot you want to drink your mind's not quite there and suddenly
06:39the cards in the box without your signature on it and then you could have played your heart out for
06:44four hours and it will all be to no avail because you will be disqualified yeah and it's interesting
06:49because I think the more we head down this route of a lot of us using apps for scoring maybe people
06:54get out of the kind of mindset of filling out a sort of an old-fashioned scorecard as it were but there
07:00are going to be tournaments when you need to do it and if you do do it then you need to put your
07:03signature on it you do and the other thing Jez is with the individual scores like the main thing
07:08what else do you need to do well I mean you've also got to make sure your marker assigned it and that
07:11your handicap is correct so you're signing to say you played off the correct handicap and then beyond
07:16that the gross scores you've got to make sure they're correct for each individual hole you don't
07:20have to do any of the maths okay that's not your responsibility and the one to be really wary of here is
07:26you signing for a score on an individual hole that is lower than that which you actually achieved
07:32because if you do that if you do that again I'm afraid it's four fruitless hours and the big dq
07:37against your name yeah so as with a lot of these just make sure you take that care and attention your
07:43scorecard is a very valuable thing if you get it wrong it could be really costly so there you have it
07:48that's a look at our five rules penalties golfers really need to avoid if you think there's anything
07:53probably more important actually in there that people miss out and the sort of careless mistakes
07:58rules related that they might make on the golf course leave some comments below if you'd like
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