Correction to Decision
13-4/38
January 18, 2008
With the change in Exception 2 to Rule 13-4, the final
paragraph of Decision 13-4/38 should have been amended to
read as follows:
If, however, the player failed to extricate his ball from
the first bunker with his first stroke and had smoothed his
footprints while his ball still lay in that bunker, he would
have incurred a penalty if his smoothing had breached Rule
13-2 with respect to his next stroke.
The R&A and USGA have agreed that the above
interpretation will apply until the Decision is revised for
the 2010 Decisions book.
The corrected Decision appears as below in the
USGA online Rules of Golf Application.
13-4/38 Sand Smoothed After Ball Played Out of Bunker;
Ball Later Returns to Smoothed Area
Q.
After playing his ball out of a greenside bunker, the
player smoothes his footprints. He then discovers that his
ball is in another bunker on the other side of the green.
He plays out of the second bunker and the ball comes to
rest in the smoothed area of the first bunker. What is the
ruling?
A.
No penalty was incurred. The player did not smooth his
footprints in the first bunker while his ball still lay in
that bunker - see Exception 2 to Rule 13-4.
If, however, the player failed to extricate his ball
from the first bunker with his first stroke and had
smoothed his footprints while his ball still lay in that
bunker, he would have incurred a penalty if his smoothing
had breached Rule 13-2 with respect to his next stroke.
| Incorrect second paragraph of the
answer as published in the 2008-2009 'Decisions on
The Rules of Golf': If, however, the player had failed to extricate his
ball from the first bunker with his first stroke and
had smoothed his footprints while his ball still lay in
that bunker, he would have incurred a penalty if, as a
result of a subsequent stroke in the bunker, his ball
had rolled back into the smoothed area.
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