Rule 1. The Game
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"Gimmies"
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"Gimmies"
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Flagstick Removed While Ball in Motion on Putting Green
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Players Agree to Repair Spike Marks
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What is "Equity?"
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Rule 2. Match Play
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Scoring in Match Play
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Putting out After Stroke Conceded
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Unsure of Procedure
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Match Play General Penalty
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Rule 3. Stroke Play
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Maximum score for a hole.
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Playing Second Ball in Match Play
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Procedure to Properly Play a Second Ball
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General Penalty Stroke Play
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Rule 4. Clubs
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Chippers
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Tape or Gauze Applied to Club
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Club Broken After Slammed in Anger
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Club Broken When Used as a Cane
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Club Broken During Stroke, Practice Stroke, or Practice Swing
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Types of Clubs Selected for the Stipulated Round
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Umbrella or Ball Retriever
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Can Partners Share Clubs?
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Rule 5. The Ball
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Maximum number of Balls
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What if I run out of Golf Balls?
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Status of "X-Out" and "Practice" Balls
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Ball Breaks into Pieces
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Rule 6. The Player
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Handicap Recorded on Score Card by Committee is Incorrect
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Switching Caddies During Round
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Lines or Arrows Used to mark Golf Ball
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One Score Card issued for Four Players in One Group
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Handicap and Adding Scores on Score Card in Stroke Play
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Time Limit to Play a Stroke
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Cleaning Ball after Play Resumed
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Rule 7. Practice
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Status of Practice Swing
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Practice on Course Before Round - Match Play vs. Stroke Play
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Practice Between Holes
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Rule 8. Advice; Indicating Line of Play
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Asking Distance Between Objects
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Club Placed on Ground to Align Feet
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Rule 10. Order of Play
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Order of Play if All Balls not on Putting Green
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Continuous Putting
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Procedure when Playing out of turn in Match Play
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Order of Play for Provisional Ball
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Rule 11. Teeing Ground
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What is a tee?
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Use of Tee with Bulge
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Use of a Tee That Has Been Found by the Player
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Ball Falls off Tee at Address
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Playing from Outside the Teeing Ground
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Rule 12. Searching for and Identifying Ball
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Loose Impediments Moved in Hazard While Searching for Ball
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Lifting Ball for Identification
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Rule 13. Ball Played as It Lies
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Removing Dew
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Placing Clubs or a Rake in a Hazard
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Raking Bunker After Stroke - Ball Still in Bunker
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Position On Raking A Similar Hazard
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Rule 14. Striking the Ball
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Using Club other than Putter on Putting Green?
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Standing on Extension of Line of Play or Line of Putt
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Rangefinders and other Electronic Distance Measuring Devices
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Wind Socks
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Tape or Gauze Applied to Club
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Wearing Headphones or Earplugs During Stipulated Round
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Application of Exception 1 to Rule 14-3
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Ball Struck More than Once
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Ball Moves after Address, Player Strikes Moving Ball
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Rule 15. Substituted Ball; Wrong Ball
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Changing golf balls during a hole or a stipulated round
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Can I use a Putting Ball?
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Both Players in Match Play play Wrong Ball
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Wrong Ball Played from Hazard
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Rule 16. The Putting Green
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Requirements for Hole Location on the Putting Green
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Damaged Hole
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Reaching Across Hole to Tap in Short Putt
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USGA Position on Spikemarks
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Ball Overhanging Lip Falls into Hole
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Rule 17. The Flagstick
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Replacing Flagstick after Ball Played from Putting Green Comes to Rest off Green
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Attending Flagstick When Ball Off Putting Green
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Ball Strikes Person Attending Flagstick
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Holing Ball with Flagstick in Hole after Stroke from off Putting Green
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Rule 18. Ball at Rest Moved
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Ball in Play Moved by Wind or Gravity
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Practice Swing Accidentally Moves Ball before Stroke on Teeing Ground
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Practice Swing Accidentally Moves Ball in Play
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Player Addresses Ball, Backs Away; Ball Then Moves
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Opponent Steps on Ball During Search
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Fellow-Competitor Moves Ball
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Ball at Rest Moved by Another Ball
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Rule 19. Ball in Motion Deflected or Stopped
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Ball in Motion Hits Another Ball at Rest
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Ball Deflected or Stopped by Golf Cart Shared by Two Players
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Ball Deflected by Player's Equipment
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Ball Deflected by Opponent
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Ball Deflected by Fellow-Competitor
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Rule 20. Lifting, Dropping and Placing; Playing from Wrong Place
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Club to be Used in Measuring Club-Lengths
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Procedure for Moving Ball-Marker to the Side
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Who may Replace a Ball?
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Serious Breach of Playing from the Wrong Place
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Rule 21. Cleaning Ball
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When Permissible to Clean Ball
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Rule 22. Ball Assisting or Interfering with Play
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Ball Lifted on Thought it will Interfere with Another Player
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Requiring Opponent or Fellow-Competitor to Leave Ball to Assist Play
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Rule 23. Loose Impediments
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Stones in Bunkers
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Why Sand and Loose Soil are Not Loose Impediments off the Putting Green
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Assistance in Removing Large Loose Impediments
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Rule 24. Obstructions
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Status of Shallow Concrete Ditches
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Bushes or Boulders used as Yardage Markers
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Status of Stakes Defining Water Hazards
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Ball Lying Against Rake in Bunker
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Explanation of Determining Nearest Point of Relief
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Taking "complete relief" from Obstruction
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Relief from Immovable Obstructions when Ball in Water Hazard
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Rule 25. Abnormal Ground Conditions, Embedded Ball and Wrong Putting Green
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Player Steps around Ball to Force Up Water
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Explanation of Determining Nearest Point of Relief
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Entire Bunker filled with Casual Water
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Soft, Mushy Earth
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Embedded Ball Rule
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Stance on Wrong Putting Green
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Rule 26. Water Hazards (Including Lateral Water Hazards)
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Status of Shallow Concrete Ditches
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Ball Rolling Back into Water Hazard
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Rule 27. Ball Lost or Out of Bounds; Provisional Ball
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Ball Thought to be Embedded is Lost
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Original Ball Found, Player wishes to Continue with Provisional Ball
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Provisional Ball Played for Ball that may be in Water Hazard
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Original Ball Found and Declared Unplayable, Player wishes to Continue with Provisional Ball
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Rule 28. Ball Unplayable
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Ball Unplayable in a Hazard
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Explanation of Two Club-Length Option
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Rule 29. Threesomes and Foursomes
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Playing of Provisional Ball
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Playing From Teeing Ground in Threesomes and Foursomes
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Rule 30. Three-Ball, Best-Ball and Four-Ball Match Play
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Request to Lift Ball That Might Assist Partner not Honored
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Rule 31. Four-Ball Stroke Play
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Breach of 14 Club Rule by One Partner
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Scoring in Four-Ball Stroke Play
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Rule 33. The Committee
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Combining Match Play and Stroke Play
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Water Hazard not Marked
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One Scorecard issued for Four Players in One Group
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Round Finishes in a Tie, How Should Winner be Determined
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Rule 34. Disputes and Decisions
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Penalties after close of competition in stroke play
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Miscellaneous
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How to Count Putts
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One Ball Condition
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Determining Flights
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Scrambles
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Validity of Hole in One
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Using the online Rules of Golf
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Holing Ball While Another Ball is in Hole
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Rules Change Process
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How do I become a Rules Official?
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