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Strange golf rules: multiple choice
There are all sorts of obscure and odd golf rules for unusual situations. Click on the correct one of the four choices. Will you be over par for this quiz, or can you ace it?
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Last updated: July 11, 2024
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| First submitted | July 11, 2024 |
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1. You start your round with 12 clubs in the bag, and break your driver while teeing off on the 1st. What can you do?
The maximum number of clubs is 14. You cannot cause undue delay.
Take five minutes to drive back to your house and pick up a replacement club
You may buy a new one from the pro shop if you wish, without delaying the game, and carry 13 clubs.
You may add a club without delaying the game, and remove one so that you remain at the limit of 12.
Nothing. You must continue the round with the clubs that you began with.
2. What happens if your ball is touching a live grass snake which refuses to move away?
The troublesome serpent is an "outside agent", not a fixed obstruction, and the ball is not embedded in the obstruction (rule 23).
You get a free drop one club length away.
You get a free drop, not nearer the hole, at a distance your playing partner deems safe from the snake.
You must play the ball as it lies, or take a one-shot penalty drop.
You can remove the snake; if this causes the ball to move, move it back to the original spot without penalty.
3. What if the live snake is killed by a sudden attack by a hawk while you are pondering the dilemma - but is still lying there, touching the ball?
A dead animal is a "loose impediment" (rule 23).
You get a free drop one club length away.
The impediment was live when you arrived at the ball, so follow the rule for live animal obstructions.
You can remove the snake; if this causes the ball to move, move it back to the original spot without penalty.
You can remove the snake; if this causes the ball to move, you incur a one-shot penalty.
4. What if the live snake in question 2 was a rattlesnake?
Rule 16-2, dangerous animals.
The same rule applies.
You may move your ball two club lengths away, not nearer the hole.
You may drop another ball one club length away, not nearer the hole.
You may drop another ball in a safe spot, not nearer the hole.
5. It's not your day, as your ball has ended up buried somewhere in a bunker but you don't know where; it is not visible under the sand. What is the rule?
Rule 12-1a.
Hack away randomly through the bunker until you move the ball; any whacks which do not move the ball do not get added to your score.
You must do the above, but every stroke counts.
You can move the sand to find your ball, and must re-create the lie as accurately as possible.
You can go back up the fairway and replay the previous shot with no penalty.
6. You want to test the wind direction and speed; which one of these statements is true?
A handkerchief, smoke and symbolic flag are all allowed (rule 14-3). If you use a wind sock, you will be disqualified. The last option is a terrific idea, but would cause undue delay.
You can light a cigar and observe the movement of the smoke.
If you use a wind sock, it incurs a two-shot penalty.
Throwing grass in the air is the only method allowed.
You can take five minutes to climb a tree and throw grass in the air to test the wind at that height.
7. While you are trying to play a shot, the clubhead flies off the club during your swing. What rule applies?
The stroke counts as an air swing even if you did not hit the ball, so you add one stroke to your score.
You may retake the shot if the clubhead flew off during the backswing.
You may retake the shot if the clubhead flew off at any time before the ball was struck.
If the flying clubhead injures a protected species of animal, you incur a one-stroke penalty.
8. You hit a super shot, but the ball ends up embedded inside a half-eaten mango. What can you do?
Fruit in which a ball is embedded is not considered a loose impediment (rule 23-10).
You must play the ball as it lies or declare it unplayable and incur a one-shot penalty.
Balls embedded in any fruit or vegetables can be removed without penalty.
Return back up the fairway and replay the previous shot, with no penalty.
Only citrus fruit allow for free drops; you must remove the ball and incur a one-shot penalty.
9. Your terrible round is almost over, and you are looking forward to a stiff drink. Perhaps you are overly eager to get to the 19th hole, as you overhit your shot and it flies straight into the clubhouse. What is the ruling here?
Rule 24-2b/14. As for demolition, it would cause undue delay to the game.
If the clubhouse is out of bounds, replay the previous shot, adding a two stroke penalty.
If it is out of bounds, incur a one stroke penalty and drop the ball at the point where it left the course.
If it is not deemed out of bounds, you can have the clubhouse walls demolished as they are a fixed impediment.
If it is not deemed out of bounds, you can open a door or window and keep playing with no penalty.
10. With your eighth shot, your ball finally arrives at the hole and starts to fall inwards, but is blocked by a fallen twig which has come to rest across the hole. The ball is balanced between the hole lip and the twig; if you were to remove the twig, the ball would fall into the hole.
Rule 23 on loose impediments again, and rule 1-4: as replacement of the ball would be impossible, in equity the ball is considered to be holed with the previous stroke.
You must play the ball as it lies and cannot remove the twig.
You may wait up to 10 seconds from the moment the ball came to rest, for the wind to blow the twig away.
The ball is not in, so you score a 9 for the hole.
You remove the twig and the ball falls in, so you score 8.
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