Powerscourt Golf Club - Rules of Golf Members Quiz
Powerscourt Golf Club Members Quiz
Test your knowledge of the Rules of Golf with our engaging quiz designed specifically for Powerscourt Golf Club members. This quiz will challenge your understanding of essential golf rules and enhance your game experience.
- 30 thought-provoking questions
- Multiple choice format
- Learn while you play
The term General penalty is used in some questions. GENERAL PENALTY (Loss of Hole in Matchplay, Two stroke penalty in Stroke Play). This penalty applies for a breach of most riles where the potential advantage is more significant than where only one penalty stroke applies.
The term General penalty is used in some questions. GENERAL PENALTY (Loss of Hole in Matchplay, Two stroke penalty in Stroke Play). This penalty applies for a breach of most riles where the potential advantage is more significant than where only one penalty stroke applies.
A player may declare his ball unplayabe at any place on the course except when the ball is in a water hazard. True or False?
True
False
Sand and loose soil are loose impediments anywhere on the course. True or False?
True
False
In match play, a player observes a breach of the Rules by his opponent but decides to disregard it. What is the ruling?
There is no penalty as a player may overlook an opponent's breach of the Rules.
Both the player and his opponent are disqualified.
The player is disqualified.
On the putting green, a player marks her ball. She does not remove the marker before hitting her putt. What is the ruling?
The player gets one penalty stroke.
There is no penalty.
The player loses the hole.
In stroke play, instead of recording his usual signature on his score card, a player records his initials. What is the ruling?
The penalty is disqualification but this may be waived by the Committee.
The competitor is disqualified.
There is no penalty.
A live insect in a bunker can be moved without penalty.
True
False
In stroke play, a player playing from the teeing area misses the ball completely. He pushes his tee farther into the ground and plays. What is the ruling?
The player gets one penalty stroke.
The player gets two penalty strokes.
There is no penalty.
In a stroke-play competition, the Committee issues the scorecards containing a player's handicap in addition to his name and the date. The Committee mistakenly records the player's handicap as seven instead of six and this affects the number of strokes received. The error remains unnoticed until after the card is returned, but before the competition has closed. What is the ruling?
The player is disqualified.
As it was a mistake of the Committee, the player should not be disqualified, however, the player's handicap should be considered to be 7 for the basis of the competition.
The player's correct handicap should be applied to his score.
In a match, player A requests player B to lift B's ball that is on A's line of play. B refuses to do so. What is the ruling?
A does not have the right to make this request, so loses the hole.
B loses the hole for failing to comply with A's request.
B does not have to comply to the request and can leave the ball on A's line of play.
In stroke play, a marker signs the player's score card in the space provided for the player's signature and the player then signs in the space provided for the marker’s signature. What is the ruling?
There is no penalty.
Both the player and the marker are disqualified.
The player is disqualified.
In stroke play, player A concedes player B's short putt and knocks the ball away. Player B lifts his ball and plays from the next tee. What is the ruling?
Player B gets a penalty of two strokes
Player A and Player B both get a penalty of two strokes.
Player B is disqualified.
A player plays her second shot, searches for her ball briefly and then goes back and drops another ball under penalty of stroke and distance. Her original ball is then found within three minutes of when she originally starting searching for it, and before she played the dropped ball. What is the ruling?
The player may choose whether to continue with the original ball or the dropped ball.
The player must continue with the original ball.
The player must continue with the dropped ball.
When playing the 1st hole, the green for the 2nd hole is part of the general area.
True
False
During a round, a player runs out of balls. What is the ruling?
The player can discontinue play in order to find or purchase some more balls.
The player must abandon his round.
The player may borrow balls from any player on the course.
In stroke play, a player waiting to play to the putting green dropped a ball on the fairway and hit two putts with her putter. What is the ruling?
The player gets a penalty of four strokes.
The player gets a penalty of two strokes.
There is no penalty.
On the putting green, a player addresses the ball with her club anchored directly against her body. However, during her backswing, the player removes the putter from the anchor point and continues with her stroke with the club no longer anchored. What is the ruling?
The player gets two penalty strokes and the ball is played as it lies.
The player gets one penalty stroke and the ball is played as it lies.
There is no penalty.
In stroke play, a player's ball in a bunker moves due to his removal of a loose impediment in the bunker. He replaces the ball on its original spot. What is the ruling?
The player gets two penalty strokes.
The player gets one penalty stroke.
There is no penalty.
In stroke play, a player cannot identify his ball so marks and lifts it for identification without announcing his intention to his marker. What is the ruling?
No penalty
One stroke penalty
General penalty
In stroke play, Doug grounds his club in a penalty area when addressing his ball. What is the ruling?
No penalty
One stroke penalty
General penalty
In stroke play, Tony asks for advise on his takeaway, Paul says he has been taking the club away too far inside on his backswing. What is the ruling?
No penalty
Tony gets the general penalty
Both Tony and Paul get the general penalty
On the putting green Maurice marks the ball by holding the putter right next to it. He lifts, cleans and replaces the ball with the putter in place. What is the ruling?
No penalty
Maurice gets one penalty and ball is played as it lies
He gets general penalty and ball is played as it lies
In stroke play Brendan's ball comes to rest near an attached divot. He presses it down and plays his shot. What is the ruling?
No penalty
One penalty stroke
He gets general penalty
A fixed sign on the course would interfere with Siobhan's ball if she were to attempt to play it. What is the ruling?
She must play the ball as it lies
She gets free relief as the sign is an immovable obstruction
She must take penalty relief (Rule 19) - unplayable ball
Stella touches sand with her club during her backswing while playing from a bunker. What is the ruling?
One penalty stroke
No Penalty
General penalty
In stroke play Cyril's put overhangs the lip of the hole. He walks up, waits 8 seconds before the ball falls in. What is the ruling?
There is no penalty - the ball is holed
One stroke penalty - the ball is holed
No penalty - but ball must be replaced on the lip of the hole
In strokeplay, Declan hits a poor wedge shot and hits the ground with his club. He thinks the shaft may be bent. What is the ruling?
He can continue to use the club or repair it.
He gets the general penalty
He cannot use or replace the club
In stroke play Colman's ball is stuck in a tree whose roots are out of bounds, but the branch the ball lies in is inside the white line. What is the ruling?
Ball is out of bounds
Ball is in bounds and he must play it as it lies
Ball is in bounds and he may play it as it lies or declare it unplayable
Neill's ball is embedded in the grass face above a bunker. What is the ruling?
He must play it as it lies
Play it as it lies or declare it unplayable
Is entitled to free relief
In stroke play, Eleanor's ball lies on a bridge over a penalty area and she grounds her club. What is the ruling?
She gets the general penalty
One penalty stroke
No Penalty
In stroke play, Brian leans on his club touching sand in the bunker whilst waiting for another player to play. What is the ruling?
Brian gets the general penalty
There is no penalty
Brian gets one penalty stroke
In stroke play, Damian finishes the fourth hole and practices putting on the next tee while waiting for the fairway to clear. What is the ruling?
No Penalty
Damian is disqualified
General penalty
In stroke play, Peter hits his putt too hard and Paul quickly moves the flagstick before the ball reaches it . What is the ruling?
Peter gets the general penalty
Paul gets the general penalty
There is no penalty
In strokeplay, Fionnula uses a loose impediment to mark and lift her ball on the putting green. What is the ruling?
No Penalty.
Penalty of one stroke
General penalty
In stroke play, David strikes the sand in frustration after leaving is ball in the bunker with his first stroke. What is the ruling?
No penalty
On stroke penalty
General penalty
In stroke play, John lifts his ball as it is leaning against the flagstick, and part of the ball is below the surface of the hole
One penalty stroke and must replace the ball on the lip of the hole
Ball is considered holed
One penalty, and ball is considered holed
In stroke play, Denise makes a stroke with her driver which has a sticker on the face of it so she can see where the impact of the ball is. What is the ruling?
There is no penalty.
General penalty applies
Denise is disqualified
In stroke play, Fergus loses his footing when entering a bunker. Although his ball has not moved, his fall has accidentally worsened his area of stance and his line of play.
Fergus may restore the conditions without penalty
He gets the general penalty but may restore the conditions
He must play the ball as it lies without any penalty
In match play a player concedes a hole to his opponent and then learns that the opponent has played a wrong ball from a bunker; there is no penalty and the concession stands. True or False?
True
False
A player may remove a pine cone lying next to his ball in a bunker without penalty. True or False
True
False
A player accidentally touches his ball with his putter as he prepares to putt. He is penalised one stroke even if it did not move. True or False?
True
False
A player can move aside a bramble growing next to his ball without penalty providing he does not move his ball in doing so. True or False?
True
False
After a player has replaced his ball on the green, but before removing his ball-marker, the wind moves his ball three feet nearer the hole. He must replace his ball at the marker. True or False?
True
False
To identify a ball in the rough without lifting it, a player may not rotate the ball in place without first marking its position; otherwise, there would be a penalty. True or False?
True
False
In stroke play, if a player misses a short putt and holes the ball with the handle end of the club, the ball is holed with a penalty of two strokes. True or False?
True
False
In a stableford competition a marker has recorded a player’s gross scores correctly and has calculated his points correctly using the right handicap. Both he and the marker have signed the card. However the player’s handicap is not written on the card.
There is no penalty as the stableford points have been calculated accurately
There is a two stroke penalty for failing to record the handicap
The player is disqualified from the competition
A player makes a practice swing and accidentally moves his ball in play with his club. What is the ruling?
The player has made a stroke and must play the ball as it lies.
The player incurs a penalty of one stroke and must replace the ball.
There is no penalty but the player must replace the ball.
In stroke play, a player bends long grass near his ball so that he can see the ball when playing his stroke.
No penalty is incurred.
The player incurs a one stroke penalty.
The player incurs a two stroke penalty.
In stroke play, a competitor's ball lies on the putting green. Before playing his next stroke he taps down spike marks in the vicinity of the hole but not on his line of putt. What is the ruling?
The competitor incurs a penalty of two strokes.
The competitor incurs a penalty of two strokes if the act assists with his subsequent play of the hole.
There is no penalty.
In stroke play, A looks into B's bag to determine which club B used for his last stroke. What is the ruling?
A incurs a penalty of two strokes
A is disqualified.
There is no penalty.
In stroke play, a player removes the flagstick and places it on the putting green near the hole. As he putts and the ball nears the hole, a fellow-competitor removes the flagstick from the green, fearing that the ball will strike it. What is the ruling?
There is no penalty.
The player incurs a two stroke penalty.
The fellow-competitor incurs a two stroke penalty.
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