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I have a driver with a flexible clubhead. During a current affordable round, I observed a minor creaking sound from the head. Without offering it any kind of idea, I made use of the device that included the club to tighten the loosened screw– I really did not transform any one of the setups. My playing companion, nonetheless, idea a fine remained in order. What state you, Rules Guy? –Simon Black, Melbourne, Australia
We hate to state it, yet your playing companion has a loosened screw in his/her head also. (The option– recognizing the guideline yet attempting to obtain one over on you– is also terrible to consider.)
Under Rule 4.1 a( 2 ), a club that ends up being harmed at all might be fixed during the round, excepting instances of misuse. This definitely consists of firm a screw of a clubhead that has actually ended up being loosened. Turn, turn, transform as required.
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Rules Guy: Can I change a damaged driver shaft with a various flex than the one I began with?
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My driver head smashed on the 8th opening during a current round. At the turn, I eluded right into the car park as well as got hold of a various driver that I had in my automobile. Different design, various specifications. After the round, my playing companions felt I scheduled fine strokes for utilizing 15 clubs. Are they deal with? –Lloyd Warner, by means of e-mail
As is commonly the situation with the regulations, as well as to some individuals’s consternation, the response is absolutely … it depends.
If Model Local Rule G-9 holds, as it extremely commonly is throughout many golf companies, you go to freedom to swap in a substitute for a substantially harmed or damaged club, thinking this took place during the typical training course of play instead of in a fit of pique. (The regulations do not provide help to the petulant.)
The replacement need not coincide make as well as design, neither also the exact same sort of club– if you desired to below in a lob wedge for the driver, that’s your authority. And had you had less than 14 clubs in your bag to begin, you would certainly have been totally free to include a club or clubs right into play mid-round (without unduly postponing play) till you got to the 14-club restriction.
However, if Model Local Rule G-9 isn’t effectively, you could not sub in a substitute 14th club, duration. Doing so would certainly cause a two-stroke fine per opening with a optimum of 4 strokes in stroke play, as well as a change to the state of the suit in suit play, established at the conclusion of the opening where the violation is uncovered, with a optimum of 2 openings.
You should eliminate the club from play as quickly as you familiarize the regulations breach or be invalidated. Note, also, that in this circumstance the regulations violation is set off as soon as you make a stroke, with any kind of club, as soon as the brand-new club has actually been included to the bag– it does not matter when or if you utilize that brand-new club itself.
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