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August 25, 2008
Rules Quiz: Lost Ball,
Free Drop or OB?
Free Drop or OB?
"The Rules of Golf" needs a snappier title. You open it expecting to be bogged down in boring legalese, but often you're saying, "Gee, I didn't know that!"
The rules book can apply to innumerable odd-ball situations. Example: at the 2006 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational, Tiger Woods' 9-iron approach shot on the par-4 ninth hole at Firestone Country Club flew the green, bounced off a cart path and onto the clubhouse roof. The ball was retrieved from a pie-delivery worker, who picked it up after it fell over the far side of the clubhouse. What was the ruling?
A) It was a lost ball since it took more than five minutes to find.
B) The ball was OB.
C) Woods got a free drop.
The ball was not ruled lost because of the pie-guy's interference. Nor was the ball OB because Firestone's clubhouse was not OB.
Woods got a free drop. The grandstand behind the green was a temporary immovable obstruction that was in his way from where officials deemed Woods would play his next shot.
Woods wedged the ball onto the green and barely missed his par putt from 30 feet. "Would have been a nice 4," deadpanned Woods.
The rules book can apply to innumerable odd-ball situations. Example: at the 2006 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational, Tiger Woods' 9-iron approach shot on the par-4 ninth hole at Firestone Country Club flew the green, bounced off a cart path and onto the clubhouse roof. The ball was retrieved from a pie-delivery worker, who picked it up after it fell over the far side of the clubhouse. What was the ruling?
A) It was a lost ball since it took more than five minutes to find.
B) The ball was OB.
C) Woods got a free drop.
The ball was not ruled lost because of the pie-guy's interference. Nor was the ball OB because Firestone's clubhouse was not OB.
Woods got a free drop. The grandstand behind the green was a temporary immovable obstruction that was in his way from where officials deemed Woods would play his next shot.
Woods wedged the ball onto the green and barely missed his par putt from 30 feet. "Would have been a nice 4," deadpanned Woods.
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