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Turned the Camera on this Time | THE GRQ PODCAST EP44
Episode 44 - Turned the Camera on this Time
Firstly, let’s go over the answer for Episode 42’s GRQOTW, which was:
In agreement a player and their opponent stop their match due to the weather conditions. They agree to return the next day and start at 8am.
Firstly, is this permissible for a player and opponent to agree to suspend their match, AND
Secondly, when they come back, do they start from where they left off or from their first hole with the score being square?
So firstly, yes it is permissible for the player and the opponent to agree to suspend play UNLESS doing so would delay the competition. Then as soon as one player wants to go back out, the other player must also resume.
Which actually brought a question to my mind? What if the opponent doesn’t want to go back out because it is too dark. Will the Committee agree or disagree with the opponent?
Considering the Committee would suspend play due to bad light, you would think they would agree with the opponent under reasonable circumstances.
Secondly, when the match does get started again, do the player’s start again from their first hole all square, or do they carry on where they left off. Yes, you are correct, they carry on where they left off.
JT Poston Ball OOB
JT Poston hit his ball so close to an out of bounds line that the referee - Steve Carmen and assistant had to use a piece of string to determine if the ball was out.
The string was placed at the bottom of each stake - ground level, on the course side and pulled tightly. No part of the ball crossed that piece of string, so it was deemed to be out of bounds.
Thankfully JT had played a provisional ball down the middle of the fairway and so headed straight to that, unlucky for JT, he lost in a playoff.
Gary Woodland Opts to Play 18th Hole a Different Way
Gary Woodland hit his ball so far right on the 18th hole during the 3M Open, that it went right of the penalty area. The Committee had that area as in bounds, you can see the white stakes in the video, so Gary was free to play. He opted to hit his ball, knowing he basically had a backboard, the temporary immovable obstruction (18th hole hospitality).
Gary then called in a referee to assist him with some interference he had with his swing. The referee treated the interference under Rule 16.1 and helped Gary then find his Nearest Point of Complete Relief, and complete the relief process.
How long may you wait for your ball to fall in?
Pajaree Anannarukarn played her shot out of a bunker, and then deliberately took her time to get to her ball. You could see her delaying her time in getting to the ball, and then when eventually getting there, she pretended to line the ball up and eventually put her shadow over the ball to which the ball then dropped in. Unfortunately the footage only shows the bunker shot, but the scorecard does show that she made a 3 on the hole, leading us to believe that the Committee either penalised her for taking too long, or they didn’t but she had an extra shot in the bunker that we missed.
GRQOTW 44
In stroke play at Wombat Hills GC, Stuart plays his second shot on the Par 4, 5th hole from the fairway and pulls it into trees, left of the green. He and his group spend 3 minutes searching for his ball but cannot find it. He returns to where he played his previous stroke from, places a ball as close to that spot as possible, and plays his next shot onto the green. He has two putts to hole out.
What is Stuart's score for the 5th hole?
That’s it for this week, remember without Rules there is chaos.
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