@ziplokfresh23@JoeRuff95@GolfonCBS Once you’ve exhausted your allotted “reasonable” amount of time to reach your ball plus the 10 seconds it is deemed to be at rest, even if it’s moving. Seems weird but that’s the rule
@DrEMichaelFrens@coach_Haggerty@GolfonCBS Only 2 things can happen when your rules guy arrives: 1) it fell after A+B, or 2) it didn’t fall.
A=REASONABLE commute time between hitting and arriving
B=10seconds
If ball falls in <|= A+B it’s holed
If not, +1
Reasonable is NOT variable.
All us open club members get this.
@DrEMichaelFrens@coach_Haggerty@GolfonCBS Then you exceeded the reasonable time you are allowed. The 10 second clock starts when you reasonably would arrive, whether you’re there or not. The ruling is the same in ALL scenarios you offer.
@DrEMichaelFrens@coach_Haggerty@GolfonCBS Doesn’t matter. His ruling will be the same. All your rhetoric is meaningless. If the ball doesn’t fall within 10seconds of your arrival it’s deemed to be at rest.
@DrEMichaelFrens@coach_Haggerty@GolfonCBS You can do it. When your rules guy arrives he will give you the following ruling: after a reasonable time to arrive at the ball if the ball fell within 10seconds it was holed. Beyond 10 seconds it’s +1. Lining up a 1” putt is not reasonable by rule.
@DrEMichaelFrens@coach_Haggerty@GolfonCBS You can do that. But if your ball falls into the cup more than 10 seconds after you arrive, assuming you took a reasonable time to arrive, it’s +1. It doesn’t matter if you call for a ruling. The ball will tell you.
@DrEMichaelFrens@coach_Haggerty@GolfonCBS Exactly. So if it is ruled to be hanging on the edge, which in this case it would be ruled as such, it’s a penalty. It would be impossible to be ruled not on the edge. The score is the same either way.
@coach_Haggerty@DrEMichaelFrens@GolfonCBS You are correct Chuck. If it’s not hanging on the edge it won’t fall in. So we are only dealing with a situation here in which the ball IS hanging on the edge. The rule states you have a reasonable time to approach the ball + 10 seconds before it is deemed to be at rest.