Because his or her actions are not reasonable in this situation, the player gets a penalty for a breach of Rule 8.1a (Improving the Conditions Affecting the Stroke). 12.2b(3)/1 – Player Is Allowed to ...

Purpose of Rule: Rule 12 is a specific Rule for bunkers, which are specially prepared areas intended to test your ability to play a ball from the sand. To make sure you confront this challenge, there ...

The Rules of Golf explains that because there was no intervening event between dropping in the wrong place and then tapping down the divot, the player gets only one general penalty of two strokes.

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