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Rules
Ladies Be Careful With Your Practice Swings
If your ball is under a tree or near a bush, be
careful while taking a practice swing because if
a leaf or a twig comes floating down from your practice
backswing, you better be ready to hit your ball
for real as otherwise you will have a two stroke
penalty for improving the area of intended swing!
Rule 13-2 Improving Lie, Area of Intended Stance
or Swing, or Line of Play
A player must not improve or allow to be improved:
- the position or lie of his ball,
- the area of his intended stance or swing,
- his line of play or a reasonable extension of
that line beyond the hole, or
- the area in which he is to drop or place a ball,
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by any of the following actions:
- pressing a club on the ground,
- moving, bending or breaking anything growing or
fixed (including immovable obstructions and
- objects defining
out of bounds),
- creating or eliminating irregularities of surface
- removing or pressing down sand, loose soil, replaced
divots or other cut turf placed in
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position, or
- removing dew, frost or water.
However, the player incurs no penalty if the action
occurs:
- in grounding the club lightly when addressing
the ball,
- in fairly taking his stance,
- in making a stroke or the backward movement of
his club for a stroke and the stroke is made,
- in creating or eliminating irregularities of surface
within the teeing ground (Rule 11-1) or in
- removing dew, frost
or water from the teeing ground or
- on the putting green in removing sand and loose
soil or in repairing damage (Rule 16-1). Exception:
Ball in hazard - see Rule 13-4.
Gunta Rolle and Irene Yablonsky on RULES
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