True or False?

1. Side A and B are playing in a Four-Ball match against side C and D. On the third hole, C, by mistake, played D’s ball from deep rough onto the green. Both players watched how the ball broke towards the hole. C discovered he had played D’s ball when he bent down to mark it on the green. In this situation, C gets the loss of hole penalty for the third hole for playing a wrong ball, but D’s score can count even if C’s stroke at D’s ball helped D’s play.

2. A player’s ball plugged in its own pitch-mark in the rough about two feet from the fringe of the putting green. Because the ball was embedded in an area that was not cut to fairway height or less the player does not get free relief.

3. As we learned from the answer to question No. 2, the player was entitled to free relief for their ball that embedded in the rough. In taking free relief the player was permitted to drop the ball on the fringe of the putting green, provided such spot was within one club-length of, and no nearer the hole than, the spot right behind where the ball was embedded.

4. A player hit her ball onto the putting green. There was a sprinkler head just off the green that interfered with the player’s stance. The player correctly determined that the nearest point where she had complete relief from the sprinkler head would be on the fringe of the putting green. If the player decided to take free relief, the player would be required to place the ball on the nearest point of complete relief even though that spot would be off the putting green.

5. A player hit his ball near the putting green, and it came to rest against a bunker rake. Without marking the spot of the ball, the player removed the rake, and the ball rolled into the bunker. The player got a one-stroke penalty for failing to mark his ball before removing the rake.

6. A player’s ball was embedded in a closely mown area just short of the putting green, but on a slope. The player correctly took free relief from the embedded ball, and the ball was correctly dropped and came to rest in the relief area. The player then walked up to the green to survey the situation. Approximately 20 seconds later, when the player was still on the green surveying his next shot, the wind blew the ball into the nearby bunker. The player was required to play the ball as it lay in the bunker.

7. Player A putted his ball from the putting green and as it was approaching the hole and still in motion, it was deflected by a moving ball that was shanked by Player B who was playing a nearby hole. Player A’s ball came to rest several feet from the hole. Player B’s ball came to rest in a bunker. Player A must play his ball from where it came to rest.