Guidelines Man: On a tap-in, my ball hit my foot. Is {that a} penalty?

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Does the brand new rule about not being penalized once you hit your self together with your ball on a shot apply on the greens as properly? Being cognizant to not step in one other participant’s line, I stood on the opposite aspect of the opening and tried to faucet in a six-incher however missed and the ball hit my foot — perhaps the one individual ever to perform such a feat (pun meant). —Josh Weimer, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Mr. Weimer, please depart punning to the professionals. Additionally, individuals, 2019 isn’t actually “new” anymore.

Regardless, Rule 11.1b applies in all places on the course: If you happen to make a stroke and hit your self on the placing inexperienced, there’s no penalty and also you play the ball because it lies.

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My buddy’s putter has a forked rear part. He hit a putt from off the inexperienced that popped within the air and lodged within the fork. Is there a penalty, and what ought to we have now executed? —Richard Barnes, Clarkston, Wash.

Assuming that the putter is, certainly, conforming, in case your buddy accurately adopted the foundations he wasn’t fully forked.

Per Rule 11.1b(1), when a ball in movement involves relaxation atop (or, on this case, inside) a shifting outdoors affect, the participant should drop the ball in a one-club-length aid space.

That space relies on the spot instantly underneath the place the ball first got here to relaxation on that membership and in the identical space of the course, no nearer the opening. There’s no penalty.

A ball wedged in a putter … there’s a primary time for every part.

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