Denis Pugh's Short Game-Lesson 8

Morning All,

The start of another weekend in which we will play our weekly medal, or maybe just have a relaxing fourball with friends on a Sunday morning.Unfortunately, I am under doctor's orders and am not allowed to play for a few weeks, so I am reduced to watching the weekend action on television.

But for everyone else, get out and enjoy the fresh air and the company of friends, and play the best golf you can. But most of all have FUN.

I hope the Denis Pugh series on the short game is giving you some ideas. Here is lesson number 8.

Enjoy and Happy Golfing.

Talk Soon,

Gordon.

P.S. Any comments you may have about the site or golf in general, please feel free to add them. Anything that helps is always welcome.

Sharing Golf Clubs- What are The Rules.

Also yesterday, the fourball in front of us asked for some advice after the second hole. One of their group had forgotten his putter (???) and had asked to borrow one of the other partners. Unwittingly he had given him his putter, and let him use it on the first hole.

Why this wasn't picked up before he used the putter, no-one knows, but anyway after the deed was done they decided the rules had been breached. They wanted to know if we knew the ruling.
None of us could come up with a definite answer, and nobody had a rule book to hand.

So, anybody got the definitive rule to help us out. We had a couple of suggestions, either disqualification or a two shot penalty for each hole that was breached.

But what really had us stumped was whether the penalty for the rule breach applied to the golfer who had borrowed the club, or whether it applied to both players.

Anybody out there who can come up with the definitive answer?