Can you’re taking recommendation from a caddie who’s additionally your enjoying accomplice?

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I’m a caddie at a resort and generally get requested to play with a shopper. When enjoying, what number of penalty strokes should I take every time I give recommendation to a shopper who asks for it? Does the shopper get a penalty too? —Steve “Cadillac” Heslin, Las Vegas

This all sounds very sketch, even for Vegas, the place “shoppers” usually ask for untoward issues. Now, simply as a Cadillac can pull double responsibility as one’s private journey and as an Uber, however not on the identical time, so too golf. You’re both a caddie or a participant.

Ergo, your fellow golfer will get two strokes every time for asking for recommendation, per Rule 10.2a… and also you get two strokes for giving recommendation below the identical rule. Name it a brand new spin on the previous caddie maxim: “Present up, sustain and shut up.”

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I’m a caddie. On a current loop, my guys had been atrocious putters — they by no means hit the road I gave them. On the final gap, one among them had a six-footer that wanted to start out on the left edge. I pulled the pin and held it up within the air in order that its shadow made a line from his ball to the left fringe of the opening. He sank the putt whereas I used to be holding the shadow on that line. Assuming this isn’t authorized, what if I take the shadow away simply earlier than the golfer putts the ball? —Maddox Miller-Jones, by way of e mail

Maddox, you’re proper to be afraid of your individual shadow, as having the participant putt whereas the shadow’s nonetheless in place can be a breach of Rule 10.2b(2), which pertains to recommendation and different assist. It will get your man the overall penalty of two strokes in stroke play and lack of gap in match play.

That mentioned, utilizing the shadow to level out the road earlier than the stroke is made is okay — really, it’s greater than okay, it’s downright ingenious. Give your self an enormous tip.

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