Ask Linda #16 - attend flagstick, ball off green

Dear Linda,
Is there a special Tuesday league rule about attending the flagstick when your ball is not on the green?
Lulu

Dear Lulu,

Actually, Lulu, the Rules of Golf allow you to have the flagstick attended no matter where your ball lies on the golf course. In fact, if you have gotten yourself into a predicament where you can’t see the flagstick (e.g., your ball is lying on the wrong side of a particularly large mogul), you may even ask the person attending it to hold it way up in the air. Just be aware that once the flagstick is attended, it is considered attended until your ball comes to rest, which means that if your ball hits the flagstick or whomever is attending it, you will incur a two-stroke penalty in stroke play, loss of hole in match play.

Linda

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