Rules of Golf

What is NOT an option when you hit your ball into a hazard marked with yellow stakes?

You can play the ball as it lies, without grounding your club, no penalty

You can re-play the shot from where you last hit, one- stroke penalty

You can pull the ball out of the hazard, and place it 2 clubs from the point where it last crossed the line, one stroke penalty

You can drop the ball on the line which the ball crossed into the hazard, no closer to the hole, one stroke penalty

Can you ground your club in a bunker, if no, why?

No, because that would make it too easy

Yes

No, because a bunker is considered a hazard

When playing lift, clean, and place, do you get to mark and clean your ball from the rough?

Yes

When you hit the ball out of bounds (marked by white stakes), what is you ONLY option?

To play the ball as it lies

To go to the spot where you last played the shot, and re- play the shot, one stroke penalty

To drop the ball at the point which it last crossed the hazard line, one stroke penalty

To drop the ball at the point which it last crossed the hazard line, two stroke penalty

When you are hitting a provisional ball, what do you have to do before you can hit the ball?

To announce you are playing a provisional

To write "provisional" on the ball

To hit the ball with a different club

To wait for all of your playing partners to hit their shots

What happens if you sign a higher number than you actually scored on your scorecard?

You are forced to play the hole which you got the score wrong on again

You have to accept that number

You are disqualified

You are given a two stroke penalty, but on your real score

If you hit a ball into an hole in the fairway which you think is an animal burrow which you get relief from, but you don't know, and there is not rules official, what should you do?

You play it from the animal burrow

You are forced to play the last shot again, but with no penalty

Play two balls, and figure out which is the correct ruling, and take that score.

You drop in the fairway, two stroke penalty

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