Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08
TICHENOR TELLS
Of z PECULIAR
GOLF INCIDENTS
By Tick Tichenor.
HAD a most unusual thing to hap
nen in the match l nlaved againSt

I HAD a most unusual thing to hap
pen in the match played agains.
Frank Hewitt in the Invitation
Tournament of the Birmingham
Country Club last month.
At the fourteenth tee both Mr.
Hewitt and myself got away good
drives. When we reached our balls
they were lying only about a half
inch apart my ball being just IN.
circumstances it would have been
practically impossible for either of us
to have played a shot without strik-
ing the other ball. which under the
rule eighteen would have meant the
loss of the hole to the player max
ing the shot as this rule provides, II
a players ball strike, or be stopped,
or be moved by an opponent or an
opponents Caddie or clubs. the oppo-
nent shall lose the hole in match
play"
Now neither of us had had such a
condition as confronted us to arise
before but we each remembered tina;
the rules provided that If the balls
lay within a clubs length of each other
| through the Green that the ball lying
nearer the hole might at the option
of either player be lifted until after
the other ball had been played and
then replaced as near as possible IN
its former position
As my ball was In front Of his !
| lifted II from a beautiful lie. The
shot to the green was only short
one of some twenty or twenty-five
yards, but over a deep trap just on
the edge of the green. which made II
| necessary to get the ball well up
| into the air and stop 1t quickly. The
turf on which our balls lay was soft
anw spungy. Mr.. Hewitt played MS
shot with a niblic and dug up diVOt
| (the golf term for a piece OF sod cut
| I'D by the club in making a stroka)
about the size OF your hand and thus
removed the grass upon which my
| ball had been so beautifully teed but
a few moments before.
What was | to do? Was ] to re-
place my ball in the hole he had
| Just dug in playing HE shot? Ger
| tainly such a requirement would not
have been fair to me.
What l did was to wait until Mr..
Hewitt and his caddy had carefully
| replaced and pressed down the diYot'
which he had cut up. and then l re-
| placed my ball as near as possible 20
| the place II formerly occupied.
| Now as a matter of fact II was not
necessary for me to replace my ball
| in its former position because the lat
| ter part of rule sixteen reads, II the
| lie of the lifted ball be altered In
plaving the other ball. the lifted ball
may be placed as near 8 possible %
| the place where 1t lay and in lie
similar to that which 1t originally
occupied"
IDR. JOSEPH EBY. who is one I
! II the most enthusiastic golfers If
the Atlanta Athletic Club, had a
most unusual thing to happen in a
round he was playing at East Lake
about a year ago. He was playing IN
| a foursorne and was playing the sixth
hole. The drive at this hole Is over
a slight hill and into fiat beyond
| II is Impossible at this hole Tor those
standing on the tee to tel II the
PLAYERS in front are out Of range.
! DR.. Eby and the other members OF
the foursome had gotten away good
! drives and the other members had
pIaved their second shots to the green
! except DR.. Eby. While he was actual
w making his downward stroke IN
playing his approach shot TO the green
a ball driven by one Of the players
who were playing behind them struck
DR. Fbv's bali and moved 1t three or
four feet which caused DIT. Ely 20
miss the ball entirely
| While DR.. Eby made a bona fide
effort to hit the ball and failed, which
under the rules counts as a stroke,
and also his ball having moved after
he had soled his club he was deemed
to have caused il to have moved
which would have cost him strike.
Still on the other hand his ball was
displaced by an agency outside OF the
match and he was therefore entitled
under the rules to replace il without
penalty.
| This case was not sent 10 the rules
committee for decision and 50 there
has been no ruling upon the point
| Which Of the rules above mentioned
do YOU think ere made TO cover 4
case like this One2
How would you, under these facts,
liked TO have lost the hole on account
of a penalty strike added to your
scorer
/ Undoubtedly some queer things
sometimes happen in a round Of go,C