True or False?

1. You hit your tee shot and it bounces off a cart path, leaving a scrape on the ball. The ball comes to rest on the cart path. When you take free relief from the cart path you are permitted to substitute a new ball.

2. Your ball comes to rest in heavy rough, only a few inches from the fairway. Your stance for the next stroke would be on a sprinkler head. You find your nearest point of complete relief and determine the one-club length relief area, part of which is in the fairway and part of which is in the heavy rough. You are permitted to drop in the part of the relief area that is in the fairway, rather than dropping in the heavy rough.

3. You hit your ball onto a cart path and you properly determine the relief area where you are required to drop your ball. Not wanting to have your ball come to rest in a divot hole, you replace a divot in the divot hole in the relief area. You drop your ball in the relief area, and it comes to rest in the relief area, unaffected by the replaced divot. This is permitted.

4. Your ball comes to rest near a white stake that is defining out of bounds. You remove the stake because it interferes with your area of intended swing. You make your next stroke with the boundary stake removed. This is permitted.

5. You are playing in the Club Championship, which is a stroke-play event. Your ball comes to rest in what you believe to be ground under repair. You think you should get free relief, but the players in your group say that it is not ground under repair. Before making your next stroke, you announce that you will play two balls — one ball as it lies and a second ball after taking relief from the ground under repair — and that you want the second ball to count. Before returning your scorecard, you ask the committee/person in charge to determine which ball counts. This procedure is permitted.

6. Your ball comes to rest in a red penalty area behind the green. You notice that the red penalty line is located near the edge of the putting green. You measure two club-lengths from the point where your ball last crossed the edge of the red penalty area, no nearer the hole, and part of the relief area is on the putting green. You may drop a ball on putting green if it is within the two-club length relief area.

7. You are playing in the Wisconsin State Senior Amateur at Meadowbrook CC. On the 8th hole you hit your ball toward the pond in front of the green. It comes to rest in the grass outside the penalty area but is resting against a turtle. Not wanting to injure the turtle and not wanting the turtle to interfere with your next stroke, you gently nudge the turtle with your club to get it to move. The turtle responds to your nudge but in the process your ball moves. You get a one-stroke penalty for causing your ball to move and must replace your ball.