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Ball
Moved, Deflected or Stopped
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Rule
18
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Ball
at Rest Moved
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Definitions
A ball is deemed to have moved
if it leaves its position and comes to rest in any other place.
An outside agency is any agency
not part of the match or, in stroke play, not part of the
competitor's side, and includes
a referee, a marker,
an observer and a forecaddie.
Neither wind nor water is an outside agency.
Equipment is anything used,
worn or carried by or for the player except any ball he has
played at the hole being played and any small object, such as
a coin or a tee, when used to
mark the position of a baIlor the extent of an area in which a
ball is to be dropped. Equipment
includes a golf cart, whether or not motorised. If such a cart
is shared by two or more players,
the cart and everything in it are deemed to be the equipment of
the player whose ball is
involved except that, when the cart is being moved by one of the
players sharing it, the cart
and everything in it are deemed to be that player's equipment.
*Note: A ball played at the hole
being played is equipment when it has been lifted and not put
back into play.
A player has addressed the ball
when he has taken his stance
and has also grounded his
club, except that in a hazard
a player has addressed the ball when he has taken his stance.
Taking the stance consists
in a player placing his feet in position for and preparatory to
making a stroke.
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18-1. By Outside Agency
If a ball at rest is moved by an outside
agency, the player shall incur no penalty and the ball
shall be replaced before the player plays another stroke.
(Player's ball at rest moved by another ball -see Rule 18-5.)
18-2. By Player, Partner, Caddie
or Equipment
a. General
When a player's ball is in play,
if:
(i) the player, his partner
or either of their caddies lifts
or moves it, touches it purposely
(except with a club in the act of addressing it) or causes it to
move except as permitted by
a,
or
(ii) equipment of the player
or his partner causes the ball
to move,
the player shall incur a penalty stroke.
The ball shall be replaced unless the movement of the
ball occurs after the player has begun his swing and he does not
discontinue his swing.
Under the Rules no penalty is
incurred if a player accidentally causes his ball to move in the
following circumstances:
- In measuring to determine which ball farther from hole -Rule 10-4
- In searching for covered ball in hazard
or for ball in an abnormal ground condition
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Rule 12-1
- In the process of repairing hole plug or ball mark - Rule 16-1c
- In the process of removing loose impediment
on putting green -Rule 18-2c
- In the process of lifting ball under a Rule -Rule 20-1
- In the process of placing or replacing ball under a Rule -Rule
20-3a
- In removal of movable obstruction -Rule 24-1.
b. Ball Moving After Address
If a player's ball in play moves
after he has addressed it (other
than as a result of a
stroke). the player shall be
deemed to have moved the ball and shall incur
a penalty stroke.
The player shall replace the ball unless the movement of the ball
occurs after he has begun
his swing and he does not discontinue his swing.
c. Ball Moving After Loose Impediment Touched
Through the green, if the ball
moves after any loose
impediment, lying within a club-
length of it has been touched by the player, his parttner
or either of thier caddies and
before the player has adressed it,
the player shall be deemed to have moved the ball and shall
incur
a penalty stroke. The player shall replace the ball unless
the movement of the ball occurs after he has begun his swing and
he does not discontinue his swing.
On the putting green, if the
ball or the ball-marker moves in precess of removing any loose
impediment, the ball or the ball marker shall be relace. There is
no penalty provide the
movement of the ball or the ball-marker is directly attributable
to the removal of the loose
impediment. Otherwise, the player shall incur
a penalty stroke uder Rule 18-2a or 20-1.
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