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Originally Posted by GregJWillis This one was quite a problem for all the members, but nontheless as the rules of golf go, the way it should be.
* Second guy with every ounce he has, misses the ball completly...well almost completly. He nicks the outside of the ball just enough that the ball goes in a perfect 90 degree angle "BETWEEN HIS LEGS!" and hits our cart!
* Now, I know the rules. They apparently didn't. After the howeling subsides, he attempts to play the ball from where it rested next to the cart. I said, what are you doing? You guys just won! Rule 19-2. That cart was part of our equipment. |
Hate to say this Greg but I think you misread the rules and gave that game away
On my reading, if he had hit his own cart then 19.2 would have applied and he would have lost the hole however if he hit your cart then Rule 19.3 applies - the logic being, I guess that you are responsible for your own equipment but not your opponents - and your opponent should just have played his shot again.
19. Ball in Motion Deflected or Stopped
19.2 By player, partner, caddie or equipment
a. Match Play
If a player's ball is accidentally deflected or stopped by himself, his partner or either of their caddies or equipment, he loses the hole.
Whereas under:
19.3 By Opponent, Caddie or Equipment in Match Play
If a player's ball is accidentally deflected or stopped by an opponent, his caddie or his equipment, there is no penalty. The player may, before another stroke is made by either side, cancel the stroke and play a ball without penalty as nearly as possible at the spot from which the original ball was last played (see Rule 20-5) or he may play the ball as it lies. However, if the player elects not to cancel the stroke and the ball has come to rest in or on the opponent's or his caddie's clothes or equipment, the player must through the green or in a hazard drop the ball, or on the putting green place the ball, as near as possible to where the article was when the ball came to rest in or on it.