What do the foundations say about carrying a lefty membership as a right-hander?
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Is it OK to hold 13 right-handed golf equipment and one left-handed membership? This is able to work for me fairly than flipping over a membership to get out of powerful conditions. –Paul Dziengelewski, Westfield, Mass.
Knock your self out, Paul.
There isn’t any rule concerning the make-up of a set, solely that you’ve got 14 golf equipment or fewer.
Seven lefty, seven righty? Positive. Fourteen putters? Have at it. As the youngsters prefer to say, you do you.
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Guidelines Man: Is it authorized to label my golf equipment with my yardages?
In a stroke-play competitors, Participant A inadvertently pulls Participant B’s driver out of B’s bag and makes a stroke from the teeing space. Realizing the error, A palms the membership to B and declares it out of play, then replays the stroke with his personal driver. He abandons the primary ball and winds up making a 5 with the second ball. What’s his rating for the opening? —Johnny Williams, Tampa Bay, Fla.
One thing comparable as soon as occurred to Guidelines Man with a pair of identical-twin sisters on a event committee, however this isn’t the discussion board for such issues ….
Even for those who had lower than 14 golf equipment, you’re not allowed to make use of a membership chosen for play by one other participant on the course. In essence, you get two penalty strokes for the breach of Rule 4.1b.
Then, whenever you performed once more from the teeing space, you had been really taking part in beneath stroke and distance. Earlier than the 4.1b penalty, that stroke with your individual driver was really your third shot, plus no matter else it took to get the ball into the opening, plus two extra for the 4.1b penalty.
To overview: 1 (stroke with improper membership); 2 (penalty stroke beneath stroke and distance); 3 (stroke with right membership from teeing space); 4, 5, 6, 7 (4 extra strokes to finish the opening); 8, 9 (penalty strokes beneath 4.1b). And with that, Guidelines Man is off to take a nap. We’re exhausted.
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