Neil Tappin is joined by rules guru Jeremy Ellwood to look at some of the simple rules related mistakes golfers are making. They offer 5 rules penalties every golfer needs to avoid covering what happens in some crucial scenarios on the course.
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00:00 Hello and welcome to the London Club and this video looking at the five rules
00:04 penalties that every golfer really needs to avoid and these are all things that are
00:09 careless mistakes that golfers might make and I think if you play the game for long enough over enough years
00:14 You'll probably end up making a few of these mistakes at some point and they can cost you penalty shots
00:19 But hopefully after watching this video, you'll be able to avoid them, right?
00:23 Let's head out now onto the heritage course here at the London Club. Look our first golf rules mistake
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00:31 Okay, so the first one on our list relates to equipment and in particular these things your laser rangefinders now
00:39 I've already zapped the flag here and I found out that it's a hundred and ninety nine yards
00:43 We're on the 17th hole of the heritage course of the London Club
00:45 It's one nine nine, but it's downhill and this step tells me it's playing one nine two. Very handy in practice
00:51 Yes, but but if you're at this stage of a round in a competition and you've had that slope function on for the whole round
00:58 I'm afraid you would be disqualified
01:00 I know, I'm out
01:01 Rule 4.3a gives you one strike and you're out almost you the first offense first breach
01:06 Whatever you want to call it of leaving the slope function on is a two-shot penalty or a loss of hole in match play
01:12 But if you then zap another yardage on the next hole that second offense and any ones beyond that
01:18 Mean you are no longer gonna you are no longer playing in this competition
01:22 No
01:22 and so you've got to be careful because on the side of the rangefinders is often a little
01:27 Switch that you can toggle on and off here. It says slope addition when it's in slope
01:31 I'd need to just push that down now. I'm out of slope and I can use this in competition
01:36 It's the sort of thing that you can't accidentally leave leave on you can and you know
01:40 If you realize too late then it is as you say bad news. Yes beware
01:44 Okay, so this one Jez is
01:50 Really carelessness, isn't it? Carelessness lack of patience lack of ability to control the putter
01:57 Which is one of my problems. Talk me through what's going on here
02:00 Well, we're talking about scenario on the putting green both balls on the putting green in stroke play you putt and you hit another ball
02:06 at rest because
02:08 Someone's raking a bunker and faffing around somewhere and you write you have a market to market
02:13 You're pretty sure you're not gonna hit it and then the thing goes off in your hands and you do it
02:17 Yeah, so it's just a an avoidable mistake, but it can cost you can't it cost you a cost you two shots in stroke play
02:23 You have to then replace the ball that was struck where it was your ball stays where it is
02:27 So I guess that may help you perhaps in a way and that it would have stopped it going further past the hole
02:33 But you've cost yourself and in match play in match play no penalty again
02:37 The ball is replaced and everyone just carries on with their business as if nothing happened a lot of these just be wary of what could
02:44 Potentially happen in a situation like this if there is another ball somewhere near the hole then ask that player to market
02:50 Definitely because it's a needless shot given away just like that
02:53 Okay, so for this one I'm gonna talk you through the following scenario which I think is probably fairly common actually
03:02 This is just to the right of the 17th green quite heavy rough around here
03:07 Let's imagine I've blazed my tee shot out to the right and I'm in here somewhere
03:10 And I come down and I see a golf ball in the rough. I can see it's a tight list
03:16 Fantastic minds tight list brilliant. It's exactly where I think it is. So I'm gonna play it. What am I in danger of doing here?
03:21 Yeah, well, I think people do this quite a lot. Don't know you're in danger of playing a wrong ball
03:25 I think maybe people are so relieved
03:27 They found a ball where they think theirs was going to be that they don't perhaps follow the checking procedures
03:32 Carefully enough before then playing it. Okay, so that begs the question then what what is the checking procedure?
03:37 So I come down. Yeah, instead of just going off to my golf bag to grab a club
03:41 I'm gonna actually have a look at this. But how do I do it?
03:43 Okay, so you can't see that it's yours from where it's lying. You can't see the marking
03:48 So you you're allowed to lift it to identify it
03:50 But you must mark the position of the ball first with T peg T peg ideal lift it up check. It's yours
03:56 You can't clean it other than the extent necessary to be able to identify it as yours. There's nothing on that one
04:02 Anyway, I'll be back down and then play on if it is indeed yours, but if it isn't yours
04:06 That's when we run into troubles if you haven't gone through that checking procedure and just gone ahead and played it
04:11 Yeah, and so quickly James, what's the penalty for playing a wrong ball? Okay. Well, the penalty is the general penalty
04:16 So in match play it would be loss of hole right in stroke play. It would be two shots
04:20 So it's quite severe, but you also have to then correct the error in a timely fashion stroke play and that means
04:25 Before you hit your tee shot on the next hole or if it's the last hole before you return your school card
04:31 Okay, and if you don't correct your error in time, I'm afraid it's the
04:35 Ld cue. Oh dear. So I mean beware it's scenarios like this
04:40 It is possible that you could play a wrong ball and it would be incredibly frustrating to get penalized for that. So watch out
04:47 Okay, so we've manufactured a situation here so you're gonna have to go with us a bit on this but it's not uncommon and it's
04:56 Well worth knowing so my golf ball is on the edge of the collar and the fairway. There's a loose impediment a twig
05:03 Next to it. So I'm gonna move that twig
05:05 Yes, because I know that I can under the rules I can move loose impediments you can
05:09 But in this case it was perhaps an unwise thing to do because your ball is now moved it's moved an inch
05:16 It has now I think a lot of people
05:18 Now for various reasons think there's no penalty for accidental movement of your ball in the general area of the golf course
05:25 Which is where we are. Yes, fairway rough fringe, whatever
05:27 But there is still a penalty if you cause your ball to move and in that scenario there
05:31 It was clearly your movement of the twig that made the ball move
05:35 Therefore you are penalized one stroke and you must put the ball back where it was
05:39 Why is that why the confusion do you think well?
05:41 I think because you're no longer penalized for accidental movement of the ball on the putting green
05:46 You're no longer penalized for accidental movement of the ball when you're searching for it
05:50 I think people have maybe read too much into that and think that you can actually just
05:55 Accidentally move your ball anywhere and it's fine. Just replace it carry on
05:58 Well, you do replace it and carry on but there is a one-stroke penalty accompanying it. Yes
06:03 So be careful again like all of these just be careful of what you're doing
06:06 Make sure that that loose impediment you're about to move is not going to cause the ball to move then you should be fine
06:11 So this one is all about something you have to do on your scorecard after your round
06:20 Jez what are we talking about here?
06:22 Well, I mean the critical thing we were looking at here is that you must sign the scorecard to attest
06:27 The school that you've just compiled. I guess sometimes you come off the course. You're a bit flustered
06:31 You've made a mess of the last someone distracts you when you're yeah, it's hot
06:36 You want a drink?
06:37 your mind's not quite there and suddenly the cards in the box without your signature on it and
06:42 Then you could have played your heart out for four hours and it will all be to no avail because you will be disqualified
06:47 Yeah, and it's interesting because I think the more we head down this route of a lot of us using apps for scoring
06:54 Maybe people get out of the kind of mindset of filling out a sort of an old-fashioned scorecard as it were
06:59 But there are going to be tournaments when you need to do it
07:01 And if you do do it, then you need to put your signature on it
07:03 You do and the other thing Jez is with the individual scores like the main thing. What else do you need to do?
07:09 well, I mean, you've also got to make sure your marker assigned it and that your
07:11 Handicap is correct. So you're signing to say you played off the correct handicap and then beyond that the gross scores
07:17 You've got to make sure they're correct for each individual hole. You don't have to do any of the maths. Okay, that's not your responsibility
07:23 And the one to be really wary of here is you signing for score on an individual hole that is lower than that
07:30 Which you actually achieved because if you do that if you do that again, I'm afraid it's for fruitless hours and the big DQ against your name
07:38 Yeah
07:38 So as with a lot of these just make sure you take that care and attention
07:42 Your scorecard is a very valuable thing if you get it wrong, it could be really costly. So there you have it
07:48 That's a look at our five rules penalties golfers really need to avoid
07:52 If you think there's anything probably more important actually in there that people miss out and the sort of careless mistakes rules related that they might
07:59 Make on the golf course leave some comments below if you'd like the video, please do hit the like button as well
08:04 But that's it for now from the London Club. We'll see you next time
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