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When putting, after I complete my backswing can I allow the clubhead hinge on the ground for a instant prior to making the forward stroke? Can I remove the backswing entirely and also start my ahead stroke after putting the clubhead behind the sphere either on the ground or floating airborne? My friends state they have actually never ever seen any individual do it, so it should be prohibited. — Ed Chapman, through e-mail
Ed, we obtained yippy simply checking out your concern. Rules Guy is of the idea that if you have actually never ever seen any individual do something on Tour, there’s a factor for it, particularly, IT. DOES. NOT. FUNCTION.
Of program, that is a different problem from validity. The rules need that you do not press, scuff or scoop the sphere. Strokes such as the ones you define, without a typical backswing, are not instantly doing among these prohibited acts yet do raise the possibilities. The secret is that you should relatively strike the sphere with the head of the club such that there’s just short-lived call in between the club and also the sphere.
If that’s what you’re doing, you remain in the clear. If not, you would certainly obtain the basic fine of 2 strokes in stroke play and also loss of opening in suit bet breaching Rule 10.1 a (and also the stroke itself counts, whatever the end result).
Rules Guy: Is it lawful to usage a hockey-style grasp while putting?
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Now that it’s lawful to putt with the flagstick in, exists a fine if, on the follow-through of a brief putt, the gamer’s putter reaches the stick? Does it make a distinction if the sphere enters or otherwise, or if it took place purposefully or otherwise? What around on a technique stroke? I recognize some people that do this, and also I would certainly such as to recognize what’s lawful and also what isn’t.– Bob Kirch, through email
The clank of a sphere striking a flagstick made use of to be as unusual as chicken’s teeth. Nowadays it’s as usual as a hen’s cluck.
Rules Guy can not state whether the noise of a club striking the stick is as engaging– it strikes us as more probable to unnerve instead of assistance– yet he can state it is completely lawful, whether in a technique stroke or a actual stroke.
