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Rule 13: Ball Played as It Lies; Decision 13-2/1
During The PING Invitational at Karsten
Creek, AJGA rules officials had to answer several questions
concerning players taking their stance when preparing to play
their shot from within the trees. Under the USGA Rules of Golf,
Rule 13-2 states
that a player must not improve or allow the position or lie
of his ball to be improved, the area of his intended stance
or swing or his line of play or a reasonable extension of that
line beyond the hole by moving, bending, breaking anything
growing or fixed (including immovable obstructions and objects
defining out of bounds) or creating or eliminating irregularities
of surface.
An exception permits a player to do so in “fairly
taking his stance.” Decision 13-2/1
gives further explanation with regard to fairly taking your
stance.
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