Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

BECOME FAMILIAR WITH
RULES OF GOLF BEFORE
YOU PLAY AT MERTON
Most of These Rules Will Come Up in the Midsummer
Handicap or Class Tournament Over
" the East Course
By WILLIAM H. EVANS

HERE are some more golf rules that
i i every player who will compete in
the midsummer handicap or the class
tournament at the Merton Cricket Club
tomorrow should know.
When you leave the tee tomorrow 5ou
Will be handed n card on which you
must keep the score of your fellow
competitor, while he will have another
card on which yours is kept. Be sure
of two things. that you get his score
| correctly and that he keeps yours cor
rectly. At the end of the round be sure
that the correct score Is on both cards,
for once they are posted they cannot be
corrected. If you return card lower
than that actually played the penalty
Is disqualification. Protect your inter-
ests' and take no chances Of a wrong
score being handed in.
Many penalties occur on the green.
If your ball lies within 20 yards of the
hole and you play 1t and it strikes the
flag stick or the person at the hole,
whether 1t Is your fellow-player or
either of the caddies, you lose strokes.
Do not get the idea that the ball must
be on the green. Even If the ball Is in
hazard or In the rough or on the fair
way, II 1t is within 20 yards of the pin.
take no chances. but have the boy re-
move the pin and walk away from the
hole. for IL the ball hits the flag stick
or the person at the hole, you are penal
lied 2 strokes.
Hitting Ball on Green
If both balls are on the green and
your ball hits the other ball you are
penalized a stroke. If you are away
you have the privilege of asking the
other player to lift his ball or play 1t,
at his option If he refuses to do so
he is disqualified. Take Fno chances,
as wormcast or stone may defect
your bail and hit the other.
1t is always advisable to have the
! player lift or play in such a situation.
If your ball is nearer the hole and
you think the other player may get a
better line If you allow your ball to
lie where it is, you may lift or play
first.
Don't Pick Up Your Ball
| If your ball lies nearer the hole and
the ether man plays fiCt and you
think his ball is going to hit yours, re-
sist the temptation to lift, for If you
lift while the other ball is in motion
YOU lose a stroke. This is'important and
should not be forgotten by golfers, as
this rule is frequently broken by pay
crs who are not familiar with this rule.
If YOU or your caddie should pick up
your ball on the green except IN the
cases cited, you must before you drlNe
from the next hole replace the pail un'
| der the penalty of two strokes. III IL is
the eighteenth green you must do TINS
| before YOU leave the green and then holf
out.
You may lift any loose impeachment on
the putting green. no matter where your
ball lies. Through the fairway this may
be done only within a club length OF
the ball If you do lift any loose i'm
pediment lying within six inches OF the
ball and the ball moves. the penalty is
stroke. Farther away there is no pen
atty.
What You Must Pick Up
You may scrape aside dung, worn,
casts. SHOW or ice with the 'club Bu'
all other loose impediments, such as ant
hills twigs, sticks, matches stones
leaves, etc, must be lifted. under the
penalty of two strokes. There is the
same penalty for pressing down any
thing with the club, the foot or in any
ether way. Sometimes on an approach
the ball digs up the green and this Is ir
your way. If it is loose. you may lift
it; but if it is not do not press !,
down, for the penalty is two strokes
Do not pluck any dandelion buttons oil
anything else that is growing that is ir
, the line of play, under the penalty o.
two strokes.
Do not touch the line of putt eXcep
, in making your putt or in the way'
mentioned, under the penalty of TIVE
strokes Whep you are on the greer
do not putt until the other ball ha
como to a rest, otherwise it will cos
r you two strokes.
| You cannot ground your club in
, bunker or trap or pit or road or Il
/ any other hazard under the penalty G
two strokes. Nothing in the hazard ca
be touched or moved but you have tn