Need your help: what's the ruling
One of our readers wrote in a question:
In a qualifying match, my son hit his golf ball up the hill on the elevated green from 220 yards out into a group of upperclassmen teammates. My son didn't think that he could reach them and apologized to the group of teammates, however it appears in anger that one of them stole his golf ball. What's the ruling? Is there any penalty to the golf ball thief?
5 Comments:
Well from the Rules of Golf point of view your son has to treat his ball as a lost ball under R 27-1 and under penalty of stroke and distance go back to the place where he hit his last shot.
The issue with a teammate picking up his ball has no immediate penalty under the Rules. Because the player is not completely sure it has happened like that and by your comments no one has informed the Committee in charge of the competition. If it is discovered that actually a player lifted the ball, he could be penalized for a breach of Etiquette.
Hope it helps,
Martin
Rule 1-4, If any point in dispute is not covered by the Rules, the decision should be made in accordance with equity. In equity, player, who took ball, should incur the general penalty of loss of hole in match play or two strokes in stroke play.
In the absence of knowledge or virtual certainty that the ball had been moved by an outside agency, the player is required to put another ball into play under Rule 27-1.
Rule 18-1
If a ball at rest is moved by an outside agency, there is noe penalty and the ball must be replaced. You have to be certain that an ouside agency moved the ball for this rule to apply.
If player A apologizes and player B is an a-hole. Then player A has the option to give player B a 4-iron enema with no penalty strokes...
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