The Mother of all Rules Quizes

1. Which of the following is not a loose impediment ?

1. Leaves.
2. Dew.
3. Stones.
4. Twigs.

1. To remove loose impediments on the putting green.
2. To remove old hole plugs on the putting green.
3. To tap down spike marks on the putting green.
4. To repair ball marks on the putting green.

1. The player looses the hole.
2. No penalty is incurred and the ball shall be played as it lies.
3. The player incurs a one-stroke penalty and the ball shall be played as it lies.
4. The opponent may immediately require the player to cancel the stroke so played and play a ball in correct order, without penalty.

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1. Lifted, cleaned and dropped, without penalty, within one club-lengthof the spot where it lay but no nearer the hole.
2. Lifted, cleaned and placed, without penalty, within one club-lengthof the spot where it lay but no nearer the hole.
3. Lifted, cleaned and placed, without penalty, as near as possible to the spot where it lay but not nearer the hole.
4. Lifted, cleaned and dropped, without penalty, as near as possible to the spot where it lay but not nearer the hole.

1. A player's caddie takes one of his clubs and swings it to show hum how to play a certain shot..
2. After 18 holes in a 36-hole match, a player asks his golf professional for help with his putting.
3. A player removes a towel covering another player's clubs to determine which club was used for his last stroke.
4. A player looks into another player's golf bag to determine which club was used for his last stroke.

1. In searching for his ball anywhere on the course, the player may touch or bend long grass, but only to the extent necessary to find and identify t, provided that this does not improve the lie of the ball, the area of his intended swing or his line of play.
2. A player is entitled to see his ball when playing a stroke.
3. In a hazrd, if a ball is covered by loose impediments or sand, the player may remove, by whatever means necessary as much thereof as will enable him to see a part of his ball.
4. If a ball is thought believed to be lying in water in a water hazard, the player may probe for it with a club or otherwise.

1. The Player's ball shall not strike the flagstick when attended, removed or held up by the player, his partner or either of their caddies.
2. The Player's ball shall not strike the flagstick in the hole, unattended, when the ball has been played from a greenside bunker.
3. The Player's ball shall not strike the flagstick in the hole, unattended, when the ball has been played from the putting green.
4. The player's ball shall not strike the player's caddie, his partner, or his partner's caddie when attending the flag stick.

1. When out of bounds is defined by a line on the ground , the line itself is out of bounds.
2. A player may not stand out of bounds to play a ball lying within bounds.
3. A ball is out of bounds when all of it lies out of bounds.
4. The out-of-bounds line extends vertically upwards and downwards.

1. Ground his club.
2. Remove a loose tone behind the ball.
3. Place his clubs in the bunker.
4. Smooth footprints anywhere in the bunker.

1. A player who begins a round with thirteen clubs may add a club to bring the total to fourteen.
2. A player, starting a round with fourteen clubs, breaks his putter in anger after missing a short putt. He is entitled to replace it without penalty.
3. A player, starting a round with fourteen clubs, looses his putter during the round. He is entitled to replace the lost putter with another putter without penalty.
4. Before the start of a round, a player, realizing he has fifteen clubs in his bag, declares one club out of play, removes it from his bag and places it on the floor of his golf cart. He incurs no penalty.

1. Only if his opponent agrees that the ball is unplayable.
2. Only in a bunker
3. In a water hazard
4. Anywhere on the course, except in a water hazard.

1. A group of four players.
2. A match in which all four players are playing individual matches against each other.
3. A match in which two play against two and each side plays one ball.
4. A match in which two play their better ball against the better ball of the two other players.

1. If the ball rolls back into the lateral water hazard.
2. If the Ball Rolls onto the putting Green.
3. If the ball rolls and comes to rest outside the lateral water hazard but into a position where the player must stand in the hazard to play the stroke.
4. If the ball rolls into a bunker which is less than two club-lengths from the lateral water hazard.

1. The hole should be halved.
2. They should replay the hole.
3. They should play out the hole with the exchanged balls.
4. Both are disqualified.

1. A pile of grass cuttings that is piled up for removal.
2. A bad spot in the fairway
3. A pile of cut up tree limbs that have been there for a long period of time.
4. A flower bed on the course.

1. The player must treat it as a lost ball and proceed under the stroke and distance penalty.
2. The player incurs a one-stroke penalty and must drop a ball as near as possible to where the ball last entered the casual water.
3. There is no penalty and the player shall drop a ball within one club-length of of the point nearest to where the ball last crossed the margin of the casual water which is (1) not nearer the hole than where it last crossed the margin of the casual water, (2) avoids interference by the casual water and (3) is not in a hazard or on a putting green.
4. There is no such thing as a ball lost in casual water in the Rules of Golf.

1. The player is not entitled to relief from the brick patio because immovable artificial objects off the course are not obstructions.
2. The player is entitled to relief and may drop a ball within one club-length of the point which avoids interference, no closer to the hole.
3. The player is entitled to relief and, under penalty of one stroke, may drop a ball within one club-length of the point which avoids interference, no closer to the hole.
4. The player is entitled to relief only if the ball lies out of bounds.

1. Any part of the mown area identified by markers.
2. A rectangular area two-club lengths in depth, hte front and sides of which are defined by the outside limits of the tee markers.
3. A rectangular area one-club length in depth, the front and sides of which are defined by the outside limits of the tee markers.
4. A rectangular area, the front and sides of which are defined by the outside limits of the tee markers. There is no limit to the depth of the teeing ground.

1. In measuring to determine which ball is farther from the hole.
2. In removing a movable obstruction.
3. In searching for a ball in a bunker.
4. In removing a loose impediment within a club-length of the ball.

1. In taking relief from ground under repair.
2. In lifting his ball to determine if it's unfit for play.
3. In taking relief from an immovable obstruction.
4. in lifting a ball on the putting green.

1. In stroke play, a competitor can concede a fellow-competitor's next stroke.
2. A player can repair spike marks on his line of putt at any time.
3. In four-ball stroke play, both the competitor and his partner must sign their scorecard.
4. A player may not play a second ball under Rule 3-3 in match play.

1. In match play, a provisional ball is prohibited.
2. The Tournament Committee is responsible for adding the score cards.
3. A player can declare his ball unplayable anywhere on the course, except in a water hazard.
4. A player can start a round with n more than fourteen clubs.

1. The player may play the ball as it lies, but he can't ground his club on the bridge.
2. The player is entitled to relif without penalty beacuse the bridge is an immovable obstruction.
3. The player may play the ball as it lies and ground his club or he may proceed, under penalty of one stroke, under the water hazard rule (26-1).
4. The player must proceed under the water hazard Rule (26-1), under penalty of one stroke.

1. Player A wins the hole because player B putted out after his putt for 4 was conceded.
2. The hole was halved. A concession cannot be declined or withdrawn.
3. Player A wins the hole because B was within his rights to decline A's concession and he subsequently missed the putt for a halve.
4. Player A loses the hole beacuse an opponent's next stroke can't be conceded in match play.

1. The competitor is panalized two strokes and scores a 7 for the ninth hole.
2. The competitor is penalized one stroke and scores a 6 for the ninth hole.
3. The competitor must replay the ninth hole and add the two-stroke penalty.
4. The competitor is disqualified.