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Specific Rules of Golf

These Quizzes focus on a specific Rule of Golf.
The questions are either Multiple Choice or True/False with fully explained answers (and links).
The questions may have a number of Rule references (in the answer), however, the specified Rule forms part of that answer.

# Rule 11
# Rule 4
#  Rule 14
#  Rule 8
#  Rule 3
#  Rule 17
#  Rule 18
#  Rule 19
#  Rule 9
#  Rule 16
#  Rule 6

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Rule 11 covers what to do if the player’s ball in motion hits a person, animal, equipment or anything else on the course.

When this happens accidentally, there is no penalty and the player normally must accept the result, whether favourable or not, and play the ball from where it comes to rest.
Rule 11 also restricts a player from deliberately taking actions to affect where any ball in motion might come to rest.

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Rule 4 covers the equipment that players may use during a round.
Based on the principle that golf is a challenging game in which success should depend on the player’s judgment, skills and abilities, the player:

Must use conforming clubs and balls,
Is limited to no more than 14 clubs, and
Is restricted in the use of other equipment that gives artificial help to their play.

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Rule 14 covers when and how the player may mark the spot of a ball at rest and lift and clean the ball and how to put a ball back into play so that the ball is played from the right place.

When a lifted or moved ball is to be replaced, the same ball must be set down on its original spot.
When taking free relief or penalty relief, a substituted ball or the original ball must be dropped in a particular relief area.

A mistake in using these procedures may be corrected without penalty before the ball is played, but the player gets a penalty if they play the ball from the wrong place.

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Rule 8 covers a central principle of the game: “play the course as you find it”.

When the player’s ball comes to rest, they normally have to accept the conditions affecting the stroke and not improve them before playing the ball.
However, a player may take certain reasonable actions even if they improve those conditions, and there are limited circumstances where conditions may be restored without penalty after they have been improved or worsened.

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Rule 3 covers the three central elements of all golf competitions:

Playing either match play or stroke play,
Playing either as an individual or with a partner as part of a side, and
Scoring either by gross scores (no handicap strokes applied) or net scores (handicap strokes applied).

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Rule 17 is a specific Rule for Penalty Areas.

Penalty Areas are bodies of water or other areas defined by the Committee where a ball is often lost or unable to be played.
A ball may be played from the Penalty Area, OR, for one penalty stroke, players may use specific relief options to play a ball from outside the penalty area.

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Rule 18 covers taking relief under penalty of stroke and distance.

When a ball is lost outside a penalty area or comes to rest out of bounds, the required progression of playing from the teeing area to the hole is broken. The player must resume that progression by playing again from where the previous stroke was made.
This Rule also covers how and when a provisional ball may be played to save time when the ball in play might have gone out of bounds or be lost outside a penalty area.

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Rule 19 covers the player’s several relief options for an unplayable ball.

This allows the player to choose which option to use – normally with one penalty stroke – to get out of a difficult situation anywhere on the course (except in a penalty area).

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Rule 9 covers a central principle of the game: “play the ball as it lies.”

If the player’s ball comes to rest and is then moved by natural forces such as wind or water, the player normally must play it from its new spot.
If a ball at rest is lifted or moved by anyone or any outside influence before the stroke is made, the ball must be replaced on its original spot.
Players should take care when near any ball at rest, and a player who causes their own ball or an opponent’s ball to move will normally get a penalty (except on the putting green).

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Rule 16 covers when and how the player may take free relief by playing a ball from a different place, such as when there is interference by an abnormal course condition or a dangerous animal condition.

These conditions are not treated as part of the challenge of playing the course, and free relief is generally allowed except in a penalty area.
The player normally takes relief by dropping a ball in a relief area based on the nearest point of complete relief.

This Rule also covers free relief when a player’s ball is embedded in its own pitch-mark in the general area.

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Rule 6 covers how to play a hole.

Such as the specific Rules for teeing off to start a hole, the requirement to use the same ball for an entire hole except when substitution is allowed, the order of play (which matters more in match play than stroke play) and completing a hole.

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