Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-04 | Page 10 | Majority of Players in Medal Play Events Disqualify Themselves

Majority of Players s In Medal Play Events Disqualify Themselves Golf Is the tho One Olle Game Ganie in ill Wh ich Players Will Not Take Time or oi Trouble to F Familiarize Themselves I Rules BY n WILLIAM II II II EVANS I Brown Drown Is an enthusiastic baseball fan Black Brack Is a devotee otee of or tennis and Smith Is an expert billiat b player If Jl you were to go with Brown Drown to a ball game same you OU would find tind him well posted postell on tho the rules and you ou would have hac a ahard ahard ahard hard time stumping him on nn any baseI baseball baseball base base base- ball situation that might arise luring during I the game Black Dlack knows tho the tennis rules backward and Smith is an authority authority au au- au- au thorH In billiards A All 11 throe three pIa play golf and all three will wilt admit that golf has the other three sports backed off the board Yet the tho throe three men get set into senseless golf rule discussions break all sorts of ot golf soU rules quote luote rules tules wrongly wrong get medal and match play rules all 11 mixed up and are atc continually putting up the same samo old problems to the chairman of the he green committee for tor ot IM Ii It itt r Why h Is It that the these e three men who know enow so IO much about baseball tennis or billiards s are arc so ignorant of or the thc rules ut dr the game that the they think Is superior to those sports One of the best tennis players In this section of oC the tho country said the othelda other othel da day that in tho ordinary medal pIn play tournament from 60 to 80 per cent of the he competitors disqualify themselves by breaking rules with which all should be familiar The chances are aro that he is n not t exaggerating a bit Du During tho the father and son tournament ment at nt I was watching some of oC the players at the short ninth hole iole The Tho father tather on one ono side had made madelie the lie tee tec shot and the son of or tho the other fa father ather ather a- a ther the tho other Both were on the green on their tee shots It was the sons son's turn to play and the other father tather stood near the hole The ball apparently was not In the line lino of or play but as the son putted the father tather who vho was guarding the ball nearer the hole reached over Ovet and all but picked up his ball ban The putted ball stopped short hort and the father tathel did ld not lift the ball Rule Broken u. u Here was as a player who to my y certain cere tam tain knowledge has played in numerous numerous numer numer- ous tournaments who Is a member of nr the green breen committee of oC his own club but who Is not conversant with this rule that is probably broken oftener than an any other rule In the game For his benefit and for tor that of or hundreds hundreds hun bun of other golfers who time and time again have broken the rule hero here heroIt It Is 4 Special rules s for stroke Rule 13 5 6 If Il the competitor whose hose ball ban is nearer to the tho hole holo lift this ball while the pla players player's ers ball II Is In motion he shall incur a a. penalty of or orone one stroke The penalty penal of or hitting another ball when both balls are on the putting green is ono stroke The player who Is away ma may ask the player whose ball Is nearer the hole holo to lift or putt at tho the option of or tile the owner oner If Il he re refuses reuses re- re ruses fuses uses to do one or the oth other r ho he is dis dis- qualified Protect Your Ot Own n Interests It is up to the man who Is away to protect his own Interests If It he feels there Is any likelihood of oC his ball hitting hitting hit hit- tin ting the tha other he should ask the other player to lift or play If It he falls fails to ask and his ball hits the nearer ball It costs him a stroke But in a great ma many l cases the man who is away be believes believes be- be Jle es there is ls not a chance In a hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred of or such a thing happening Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Some Some- times there Is is a worm cast or a small pebble In the wa way and the ball bail is de deflected deflected de- de from rom tho the line and is headed toward the other ball Then the man who has Just putted yells ells to the other player to lift his ball ban If Il the fellow eBow nearer the hole knows the rule he ho will not lift JIlt for If he docs does he loses a a. stroke If lC he ho is ignorant of r the rule he lifts and then finds that he lie is penalized a a. stroke in order to accommodate the other player Two r Tec ree c Shots Shot Holed Out Most of or us play golf goU all nIl our lives and never hole out from the tee tec or even see others ers do it The They have hac a new third hole at the Old York Road fond Countr Country Coun Coun- tr try club and tho the honor of oC being the tho first player to hole out belongs to Fa Fay Fay- Otto elte Kenderdine He lie was playing ph In a four our match with three other members of oC the club Shaw Ickler IckIer and Ho was the first man to play and the ball struck In lit front of ot the hole holo and dropped into the cup The others other did their best to emulate his example but there was nothing doing doln