{"id":15735,"date":"2016-12-12T10:55:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T00:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glenelggolf.com\/cms\/?p=15735"},"modified":"2023-06-20T15:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T06:13:53","slug":"member-notice-additional-local-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glenelggolf.com\/cms\/2016\/12\/member-notice-additional-local-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"MEMBER NOTICE: Additional Local Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"article_names\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glenelggolf.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/ggclogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>New Local Rule for ball moved on green<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.org.au\/newsdisplay\/95291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Story courtesy of Golf Australia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The R&amp;A and USGA today announced the introduction of a new Local Rule that eliminates the penalty when a ball is accidentally moved on the putting green.<\/p>\n<p>It is a move that would have altered the way Dustin Johnson&#8217;s controversial final round played out during this year&#8217;s US Open at Oakmont.<\/p>\n<p>The Local Rule will be available for any committee in charge of a competition to use starting 1 January 2017. It will be adopted by The R&amp;A and USGA in all of their championships, qualifying competitions and international matches.<\/p>\n<p>David Rickman, Executive Director &#8211; Governance at The R&amp;A, said, \u201cFor the past several years, as part of The R&amp;A and USGA\u2019s Rules Modernisation initiative, we have considered the penalty for a ball that is accidentally moved on the putting green. Both Rules Committees agreed that it needed to be changed and decided that in this particular case it was important to act now, through a Local Rule, rather than wait for the next overall set of revisions to the Rules of Golf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Pagel, Senior Director, Rules of Golf and Amateur Status at the USGA, said, \u201cEliminating this penalty responds to the concerns we have heard from both golfers and committees about the difficulties in applying the current Rules when a player accidentally causes a ball to move on the putting green. This change is a good example of the type of Rules modernisation changes we hope to implement after completing our fundamental review of all of the Rules. We are looking for ways to improve the Rules by making them easier to understand and apply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Local Rule has been welcomed by all of the major Tours worldwide, and the PGA TOUR, European Tour, LPGA, PGA of America and the Masters Tournament are among the golf organizations that will implement the Local Rule for all future events, beginning 1 January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>If a Committee wishes to introduce this Local Rule, the following wording is recommended:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRules 18-2, 18-3 and 20-1 are modified as follows:<\/p>\n<p>When a player\u2019s ball lies on the putting green, there is no penalty if the ball or ball-marker is accidentally moved by the player, his partner, his opponent, or any of their caddies or equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The moved ball or ball-marker must be replaced as provided in Rules 18-2, 18-3 and 20-1.<\/p>\n<p>This Local Rule applies only when the player\u2019s ball or ball-marker lies on the putting green and any movement is accidental.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>If it is determined that a player\u2019s ball on the putting green was moved as a result of wind, water or some other natural cause such as the effects of gravity, the ball must be played as it lies from its new location. A ball-marker moved in such circumstances is replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"highlight\">Download: <a class=\"pdflink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.org.au\/site\/_content\/document\/00032734-source.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Local Rule for Accidental Movement of a Ball on the Putting Green: Q&amp;A<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"highlight\">Download: <a class=\"pdflink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.org.au\/site\/_content\/document\/00032735-source.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How it works info graphic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The R&#038;A and USGA today announced the introduction of a new Local Rule that eliminates the penalty when a ball is accidentally moved on the putting green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[418,222],"class_list":["post-15735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests-news","tag-local-rules","tag-member-notice"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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