{"id":60612,"date":"2018-02-13T08:44:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T06:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=60612"},"modified":"2018-02-13T08:44:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T06:44:05","slug":"continuing-play-of-a-hole-after-the-result-has-been-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/02\/13\/continuing-play-of-a-hole-after-the-result-has-been-decided\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing play of a hole after the result has been decided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Part 2 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A colleague asked me whether a player who cannot score any points on a hole in a Stableford competition may continue play of the hole, or<\/p>\n<p>whether this constitutes practice and incurs a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>I found this to be an intelligent question which sent me to do a quick research and below is what I found out.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u2018constitutes practice\u2019 from Rule 7-2 clarifies; Strokes made in continuing the play of a hole, the result of which has been decided, are not practice strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Decision 7-2\/1.7 further clarifies;<\/p>\n<p>This phrase covers situations in which a player plays the remainder of the hole with one ball in play.<\/p>\n<p>Its interpretation is not restricted to continuing the play of the hole in accordance with the rules and includes, for example, situations where a player plays a ball from a spot close to where his original ball went out of bounds or in the area where it was lost.<\/p>\n<p>The same principle applies in match-play where a player putts out after their putt has been conceded.<\/p>\n<p>Decision 2-4\/6; Rule 2-4 does not cover the question of whether a player may putt out after his next stroke has been conceded.<\/p>\n<p>A player incurs no penalty for holing out in such circumstances. However, if the act would be of assistance to a partner in a four-ball or best-ball match, the partner is, in equity (Rule 1-4), disqualified for the hole.<\/p>\n<p>The last sentence in this decision also applies in stroke-play. A four-ball player must not continue play, if by doing so it would be of assistance to their partner.<\/p>\n<p>The penalty for doing so is two strokes for each partner.<\/p>\n<p>Decisions 30-3f\/6 and 30-3f\/7 are relevant.<\/p>\n<p><em>The author is a R&amp;A Certified Tournament Administrator and Referee. He is also a Teaching Professional and a member of the Professional Golf Association of South Africa. <\/em><strong>For feedback, Email:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 2 A colleague asked me whether a player who cannot score any points on a hole in a Stableford competition may continue play of the hole, or whether this constitutes practice and incurs a penalty. I found this to be an intelligent question which sent me to do a quick research and below is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60616,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60612\/revisions\/60616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}