Week Eight: Ball Flight Laws

Students will be able to:

  • continue practicing all clubs in a full swing practice session

  • review ball flight laws

  • learn about abnormal ground conditions and obstructions/cart paths

  • define perseverance

Quiz 8

ALL QUIZZES ARE DUE NEXT WEEK!!!!

Week 8 Notes:

  1. Chapter 4: When you can’t play the ball as it lies

    a. Abnormal Ground Conditions- there are THREE types; you have one option: take free relief one club length from the nearest point of relief

    • Casual Water - temporary water caused by rain or flooding. Water is casual if you step in it and see water rise up the soles of your shoes

    • Hole made by a burrowing animal - must be animals such as rats, gopher, mole, vermin, rodents

    • Ground under repair- “'Ground under repair' is any part of the course so marked by order of the Committee or so declared by its authorized representative. All ground and any grass, bush, tree or other growing thing within the ground under repair are part of the ground under repair. Ground under repair includes material piled for removal and a hole made by a greenkeeper, even if not so marked. Grass cuttings and other material left on the course that have been abandoned and are not intended to be removed are not ground under repair unless so marked.

      "When the margin of ground under repair is defined by stakes, the stakes are inside the ground under repair, and the margin of the ground under repair is defined by the nearest outside points of the stakes at ground level. When both stakes and lines are used to indicate ground under repair, the stakes identify the ground under repair and the lines define the margin of the ground under repair.

      "When the margin of ground under repair is defined by a line on the ground, the line itself is in the ground under repair. The margin of ground under repair extends vertically downwards but not upwards.

      "A ball is in ground under repair when it lies in or any part of it touches the ground under repair.

      "Stakes used to define the margin of or identify ground under repair are obstructions.

      "Note: The Committee may make a Local Rule prohibiting play from ground under repair or an environmentally-sensitive area defined as ground under repair."

    b. Obstructions- artificial objects (manmade) on the course (as opposed to impediments)

    • Moveable- if it’s moveable, move (you can move moveable obstructions wherever they are) (examples include yardage markers, rake, signage)

    • Immoveable- you get free relief on club length from nearest point of relief (examples include bathrooms, cart path, bench, lightpost)

    • Cart path- type of immoveable obstruction- you can play it as it lies in addition to the option above