The Jamaica Golf Association

In stroke play, a player’s ball lies in a bunker. He cannot decide which club to use so he takes his wedge and his sand wedge into the bunker to assess the shot. He decides that he needs his sand wedge and he lays his wedge down in the bunker. The player is penalised two strokes for touching the ground in a bunker.

A player cannot take his stance properly on the tee because one of the tee markers obstructs his left foot. He moves the tee marker a couple of inches and plays his stroke. There is no penalty.

In stroke play, the penalty for dropping a ball in an incorrect manner is two strokes.

A stake defining out of bounds is a movable obstruction

A discarded score card is neither a loose impediment or a movable obstruction.

Manufactured ice is casual water.

In stroke play, a player’s ball lies in a bunker. He cannot decide which club to use so he takes his wedge and his sand wedge into the bunker to assess the shot. He decides that he needs his sand wedge and he lays his wedge down in the bunker. The player is penalised two strokes for touching the ground in a bunker.

A "stroke" includes the players backswing

In match play, a player holes a putt on the putting green from a stance astride the line of putt.  The player loses the hole.

A player’s ball lies on top of a towel through the green. The player may remove the towel and drop the ball as near as possible to the spot where the ball lay on the towel, but not nearer the hole.

In match play, a player plays a stroke at a ball with his stance on a wrong putting green.  What is the penalty?

A ball is out of bounds when any part of it lies out of bounds

A match play competition has a handicap allowance of ¾ difference in place. Player A has a handicap of 14 but by mistake he declares it to Player B as 15. Player B has a handicap of 4. Player A is disqualified.

A player may only remove loose impediments on his line of putt by picking them up or by brushing them aside with his hand or a club

If a player’s ball at rest is moved by an outside agency the player shall incur a one stroke penalty and the ball shall be replaced

A player may play a ball lying through the green with his stance on a wrong putting green

A player has fourteen clubs in his bag. At the third hole he slices his drive out of bounds and in frustration bangs his driver on the ground, breaking the shaft in the process. The player may replace the driver.

The Committee may define a lateral water hazard as a water hazard

Water hazard stakes may not be moved even if they are physically movable

A stroke play competition has a handicap allowance of ¾ in place. Player A records his handicap on his scorecard as 11 when it is in fact 10. Player A is disqualified.

In match play a player obtained a ruling from a member of the Committee and proceeded to play on the basis of that ruling, which involved dropping the ball at and playing from a wrong place.  The Committee member then learns that he made an incorrect ruling.  What is the ruling?

In stroke play, a player swings at and misses a wrong ball.  What is the ruling?

A competitor’s caddie tests a putting green off the course before the competitor plays. What is the penalty?

In stroke play, a marker signs the competitor's score card in the space provided for the competitor's signature and the competitor then signs in the space provided for the marker's signature.  What is the ruling?

An immovable artificial object which is situated out of bounds is an obstruction.

In stroke play, a competitor's ball lies on the putting green.  Before playing his next stroke he taps down spike marks in the vicinity of the hole but not on his line of putt.  What is the ruling?

In stroke play, a player’s ball lies in a bunker. The player takes his stance and is just about to ground his club when the ball moves. The player incurs a one stroke penalty.

A stake defining the margin of a water hazard is removed.  The hole in which the stake was previously located is a "hole made by a greenkeeper" and thus ground under repair.

A and B are to play C and D in a four-ball match, however A arrives just after B, C and D have teed off at the third hole.  A is prohibited from joining the match until the fourth hole but A gives advice to B during the play of the third hole.  What is the ruling?

In stroke play, a competitor concedes his fellow-competitor a short putt and knocks the ball away.  The fellow-competitor lifts his ball and plays from the next tee.  What is the ruling?