What do the foundations say about carrying a lefty membership as a right-hander?
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Is it OK to hold 13 right-handed golf equipment and one left-handed membership? This could work for me relatively than flipping over a membership to get out of robust conditions. –Paul Dziengelewski, Westfield, Mass.
Knock your self out, Paul.
There isn’t any rule relating to the make-up of a set, solely that you’ve got 14 golf equipment or fewer.
Seven lefty, seven righty? Positive. Fourteen putters? Have at it. As the children prefer to say, you do you.
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In a stroke-play competitors, Participant A inadvertently pulls Participant B’s driver out of B’s bag and makes a stroke from the teeing space. Realizing the error, A palms the membership to B and declares it out of play, then replays the stroke with his personal driver. He abandons the primary ball and winds up making a 5 with the second ball. What’s his rating for the opening? —Johnny Williams, Tampa Bay, Fla.
One thing comparable as soon as occurred to Guidelines Man with a pair of identical-twin sisters on a match committee, however this isn’t the discussion board for such issues ….
Even in case you had lower than 14 golf equipment, you’re not allowed to make use of a membership chosen for play by one other participant on the course. In essence, you get two penalty strokes for the breach of Rule 4.1b.
Then, if you performed once more from the teeing space, you have been truly enjoying below stroke and distance. Earlier than the 4.1b penalty, that stroke with your individual driver was truly your third shot, plus no matter else it took to get the ball into the opening, plus two extra for the 4.1b penalty.
To evaluation: 1 (stroke with unsuitable membership); 2 (penalty stroke below stroke and distance); 3 (stroke with right membership from teeing space); 4, 5, 6, 7 (4 extra strokes to finish the opening); 8, 9 (penalty strokes below 4.1b). And with that, Guidelines Man is off to take a nap. We’re exhausted.
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