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10.04 Regelendring:
Tåpelig regel ble endret over natten
Det var stor debatt rundt diskvalifiseringen av Stewart Cink for kort tid siden
i the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Han lå utenfor bunkeren, men måtte stå i
den for å få slått ballen. Han rakte pent etter seg. Det som var problemet var
at han havnet i en bunker på det samme hullet. Da ble rakingen ansett som å
teste forholdene i bunkeren med dertil hørende to straffeslag. Helt latterlig,
mente mange. I regel 13-4a heter det at spilleren ikke skal teste forholdene i
hinderet eller ethvert liknende hinder.
Stewart Cink har aldri oppfattet det slik at dette gjelder alle bunkere på hele
hullet. Ikke vi heller etter over 40 år i bransjen. Men der tok vi altså feil.
Dette fører til at du ikke kan rake i en bunker hvis du må stå i en
fairway-bunker og slår en ball som ligger utenfor denne. Havner du i bunkeren
på det neste slaget, skulle du altså ikke få lov å rake ut sporene etter deg.
Dette er ikke mindre enn tåpelig i manges øyne.
Tok til fornuften
Nå har The R&A and USGA tatt til fornuften og endret denne regelen over natten
og ikke ventet i fire nye år for å få den endret. Det er en sensasjon i denne
meget konservative delen av spillet.
Her er hva som står på R&As hjemmesider om saken:
The Joint Rules Committee
(JRC), consisting of representatives of the Rules of Golf Committees of The R&A
and the United States Golf Association, have issued an interpretation of Rule
13-4a with respect to testing the condition of a similar hazard (whether a
bunker or a water hazard).
At its customary April meeting, the JRC reviewed several issues relating to
Rule 13-4 (Ball in Hazard; Prohibited Actions), including some that were
carried over for resolution from the previous quadrennial Rules revision cycle.
One such question was whether a player whose ball lies in a bunker may smooth
sand to tidy up another bunker, even though he had not made a stroke from that
other bunker.
After discussion, the JRC agreed on the following position, effective
immediately:
"Rule 13-4a prohibits a player from testing the condition of the hazard in
which his ball lies or a similar hazard. Yet Exception 3 to the Rule, which was
introduced in 2008, allows a player to test the condition of one hazard after
playing from that hazard into a similar hazard. Although Decision 13-4/0.5
lists smoothing a bunker with a rake, club or otherwise as an example of
testing the condition of the hazard, the Etiquette Section of the Rules of Golf
provides that “Before leaving a bunker, players should carefully fill up and
smooth over all holes and footprints made by them and any nearby made by others.”
It is not the intent of Rule 13-4a to prohibit players from practicing the
proper etiquette of the game when more than one bunker is involved. Therefore,
when the player’s ball lies in a bunker, it would not be a breach of the Rules
if the player were to smooth the sand in another bunker, provided (a) the
smoothing is for the purpose of tidying up the bunker, (b) the smoothing does
not breach Rule 13-2 (Improving Lie, Area of Intended Stance or Swing, or Line
of Play) with respect to his next stroke and (c) there is not a reasonable
possibility that the smoothing could affect a subsequent stroke by the player.
If the player were to smooth sand in the bunker in which his ball lies prior to
making his first stroke in that bunker, he would be in breach of Rule 13-4a."
While the JRC does not normally make public the results of its deliberations
outside the updates of the Decisions on the Rules of Golf every two years and
the Rules of Golf every four years, The R&A and the USGA do informally answer
questions about the Rules of Golf as those questions arise.
Questions have arisen in connection with a recent ruling involving Stewart Cink
at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. In that situation, the player incurred a
penalty for smoothing sand in a bunker from which he had not made a stroke,
when his ball lay in another bunker -- a ruling that followed the USGA’s Rules
of Golf Committee’s position at that time. To avoid such an act being a breach
of the Rules in the future, the JRC has decided to make public its agreed
position on smoothing a similar hazard.
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