Richmond Golf Channel Am Tour 2015 Update #3

WOW, can you believe it, February is here and we’re only 6 weeks from the start of the local Richmond Golf Channel Am Tour season at the Glen Allen Open.

MAJORS
It may still seem like the start of the season is a ways off, but the 2015 Golf Channel Am Tour season has already started. Several Majors have already been contested and many more are about to be played along with many local events in the warmer areas of the country. Up next is the Puerto Rico Amateur wear 5 Richmond Tour members will be competing.
Good Luck to ;
Tip Wight
Jack Welch
Mel Imad
Keenan Davis
J. B. Martin

Bring home some hardware guys.

REGISTRATION for the Homestead Opens TODAY

CONGRATULATIONS
Go out to Richmond Tour member Jeff Newman and his partner Phil Harris for winning Flight #5 at the Duel in the Desert. (Jeff qualifies for the 2015 National Championship)
Other Richmond Participants
Bill Goodman and partner Wesley Waller finished 3^rd in flight 13 (which qualified them for the 2015 National Championship)
Vincent Sarro & Gary Francis finished 11^th in flight 11

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RULES SECTION

24-2. Immovable Obstruction

a. Interference

Interference by an immovable obstruction occurs when a ball lies in or on the obstruction, or when the obstruction interferes with the player’s stance or the area of his intended swing. If the player’s ball lies on the putting green, interference also occurs if an immovable obstruction on the green intervenes on his line of putt. Otherwise, intervention on the line of play is not, of itself, interference under this Rule.

b. Relief

Except when the ball is in a water hazard or a lateral water hazard, a player may take relief from interference by an immovable obstruction as follows:

(i)Through the Green: If the ball lies through the green, the player must lift the ball and drop it, without penalty, within one club-length of and not nearer the hole than the nearest point of relief. The nearest point of relief must not be in a hazard or on a putting green. When the ball is dropped within one club-length of the nearest point of relief, the ball must first strike a part of the course at a spot that avoids interference by the immovable obstruction and is not in a hazard and not on a putting green.

(ii)In a Bunker: If the ball is in a bunker, the player must lift the ball and drop it either:

(a) Without penalty, in accordance with Clause (i) above, except that the nearest must be in the bunker and the ball must be dropped in the bunker; or

(b) Under penalty of one stroke, outside the bunker keeping the point where the ball lay directly between the hole and the spot on which the ball is dropped, with no limit to how far behind the bunker the ball may be dropped.

(iii)On the Putting Green: If the ball lies on the putting green, the player must lift the ball and place it, without penalty, at the nearest point of relief that is not in a hazard. The nearest point of relief may be off the putting green.

(iv)On the Teeing Ground: If the ball lies on the teeing ground, the player must lift the ball and drop it, without penalty, in accordance with Clause (i) above.

The ball may be cleaned when lifted under this Rule.

(Ball rolling to a position where there is interference by the condition from which relief was taken – see Rule 20-2c(v))

Exception: A player may not take relief under this Rule if (a) interference by anything other than an immovable obstruction makes the stroke clearly impracticable or (b) interference by an immovable obstruction would occur only through use of a clearly unreasonable stroke or an unnecessarily abnormal stance, swing or direction of play.

Note 1: If a ball is in a water hazard (including a lateral water hazard), the player may not take relief from interference by an immovable obstruction. The player must play the ball as it lies or proceed under Rule 26-1.

Note 2: If a ball to be dropped or placed under this Rule is not immediately recoverable, another ball may be substituted.

Note 3: The Committee may make a Local Rule stating that the player must determine the nearest point of relief without crossing over, through or under the obstruction

See the video in the link below for detailed information

 ImmovableObstructions 

Answer to last weeks Rules Quiz

A player strikes his ball into high grass and properly plays a provisional ball. He prefers to continue play with the provisional ball but a fellow-competitor announces the original ball is found in less than 5 minutes of search. The player refuses to identify the ball that is found.
What is the ruling?

A.) He may continue with the provisional ball; he is not required to identify the ball that was found.
B.) He must abandon both balls and play another ball from where his previous stroke was made.
C.) He must inspect the ball that was found; if a player has dishonestly not identified a ball that is his, the Committee should Disqualify the Player.

The CORRECT ANSWER is C
He Must inspect the ball that was found; if a player has dishonestly not identified a ball that is his, the Committee should Disqualify the Player.

NOTE: He does not have to look for it, but if found within 5 minutes or before he has made a stroke with the provisional ball he MUST identify it

DECISION 27/13

Refusal to Identify Ball

Q.A player purposely refuses to identify a ball as his. What can the opponent or a fellow-competitor do in such a case?

A.An opponent or fellow-competitor has the right to be satisfied about the identification of a player's ball.

If a player has dishonestly not identified his ball, the opponent or fellow-competitor may refer the dispute to the Committee (Rule 34-3). In such a case, the Committee would be justified in imposing a penalty of disqualification under Rule 33-7.

Related Decisions:

• 27-2/2 Member of Committee Finds Player's Original Ball; Player Prefers to Continue with Provisional Ball.

• 27-2b/1 Continuation of Play with Provisional Ball Without Searching for Original Ball.

• 27-2c/2 Ball Believed to Be Original Found; Player Wishes to Ignore It and Continue Play with Provisional Ball.

WEEKLY RULES QUIZ
In Stroke play, a player strikes his tee shot on a par-3 hole into a Water Hazard. Finding the ball in the Hazard, he plays it further into the Hazard where it is lost. He drops a ball in the Hazard where he last played, but it embeds. He abandons the ball, plays another from the tee onto the green, holes the putt, and tees off on the next hole.
What is the ruling?

A.) His score on the hole is 5
B.) His score on the hole is 6
C.) He is disqualified