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ClubLand Stories October 26 - Blakey Rules Podcast Episode 142
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BRQOTW 141 - Your caddie can mark, lift, clean and replace your ball on the putting green without needing permission.
Once your ball is marked and lifted, it "owns the spot". If wind moves it, you must replace it on the original spot.

If the ball will not stay on the spot after being replaced, try again. If it still will not stay, find the nearest spot where it will remain at rest.

Trying the original spot a third time is acceptable because it is the nearest spot to the original spot.

No penalty applies.

Rules question of the episode - ERQ - Episode Rules Question

ClubLand Stories
Flag on the cart

Players in a four-ball event claim a win under an incorrect ruling, leave, and then lie about the facts.

Players forgetting what the Terms of Competition say about handicap adjustment (75%) and playing off their normal handicaps in a match

Structure of a club championship - best 3 out of 4

Local Rule for powerlines off the course, parallel to play but located in the rough

Playing an individual stableford round combined with a 2 person aggregate stableford competition

Three common unauthorised local rules - free drop from tree roots unless located within 2 club-lengths of trees, AND free relief from divots,  AND lift, rake, and replace in bunkers

Are competitors allowed to search for their opponents ball

If a match goes to extra holes, do the players use the same handicap strokes?

If a man is playing a woman in a match, and the man plays a par 4, and the woman plays the same hole as a par 5, how is the result calculated?

Can you put a stake in a bunker to make it GUR whilst staff are working on it?

Ball in GUR and also has access to preferred lie

No caddies allowed within 20 metres of player, disqualification after the results are announced

Foursome partner takes free replay for ball hitting sign

Free replay for hitting rake holder

Tree branch being moved by wind keeps moving ball. Ball replaced and still gets moved

Making a local rule that restricts who the marker is, not someone sharing the same cart

Partner hits player’s ball with follow-through

Opponent isn’t happy that they can’t win a hole if they are giving shots and the other person birdies a par 3

Debate a subjective Rule/ruling
Flagstick - deliberate vs accidental

A player stands next to the flagstick, and watches a ball hit the flagstick that they are not holding, and the ball goes in the hole.

Latest Rulings - Viktor Hovland, Shaun Norris, Moa Svedenskoild, Niall Shiels Donegan, the Question of the Week and the Question of the Episode -Blakey Rules Ep 1

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In Episode 1 of Blakey Rules, we have our usual segments:
Question of the Week,
Latest Rulings.
And a couple of new segments:
Question of the Episode,
Subjective Rule of the week.

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GUEST: Marcela Smith shares her journey to becoming a golf rules official and stories from two U.S. Open Qualifiers. She teaches fun, experiential rules clinics through Girlfriends Guide to Golf and volunteer officiates with the Southern California Golf Association.

Joining the SCGA to help conduct some tournaments - THE GRQ PODCAST EP140
GRQOTW140: A player has a caddie, and fires them after four holes. The caddie then continues to watch the player play, and then on the 7th hole, the player hits a ball into long grass, the ex-caddie goes to search for it and is there for 45 seconds before the player arrives to search. The ball is found 2mins and 45secs later. Is this ball still the ball in play?
GRQOTW139: The player moves a loose impediment that the ball is sitting on. They then realised the ball is sitting on the loose impediment, so they replace the loose impediment exactly as it was so that the ball is in the same position. Is the ball considered to have move and therefore the player gets a one stroke penalty?
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GUEST: Jason R. Smith, co-author of A Guide to Being a Rules Official, joins Blakey for his second guest appearance, and they go through some gnarly Rules of Golf situations - THE GRQ PODCAST EP139
Jason brings his own ClubLand Stories to the podcast presented by GOLF.AI, and tries to catch Blakey out with a ball moved, or has it not moved, that is the question.

GUEST: Elisa Hermes, an update about recent US OPEN qualifying tournaments and Rules worshops that Elisa has been running, we also discuss golf as an outdoor spot - THE GRQ PODCAST EP138

GRQ137 - David hits his tee shot to the right of the fairway and it comes to rest inside a wombat hole that is on the side of a cliff face. The ball is not visible from the ground, but it was known to have gone into the hole, and the hole is very visible from the ground and it is easy to see that it is a wombat hole. David can't walk up the cliff face to get to the ball nor the hole, so he says to Andrew that he will take free relief, and use the nearest spot to the hole that he can reach as his reference point and drop a ball within a club-length of that spot. Andrew is not sure about that, and doesn't even think David could actually play a shot at the ball, as he can't climb the cliff face. Andrew calls in a referee, and that is you, what is your ruling?
Answer: The stroke would have been clearly unreasonable for David, so there is no free relief. He would have to take stroke-and-distance and he cannot locate the exact spot of the ball.

GRQOTW138
A player' s ball has come to rest on the fringe. There is some dirt in front of his ball that looks to have stuck together and fallen off the bottom of another player's shoe. Is the player allowed to remove that dirt that is on his line of play?
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