Linda,
Thanks for providing such an informative and entertaining
medium for learning the rules and etiquette of our great game. I have been
a follower of yours for years.
The greens at our club were recently aerated and top-dressed,
and we wondered if that had any effect on the rules governing sand removal from
one's line and repairing marks other than ball marks that may have been caused
by the aeration process.
Thanks again for your wonderful service to the game.
Lou from Placitas, New Mexico
Dear Lou,
Sand and loose soil are defined as loose impediments on the putting green, so you may brush
them off your line of putt [Definition of “Loose Impediments”].
You may not repair damage to the green other than ball marks
[Rule 16-1c].
If your ball is sitting on an aeration hole on the green, and the Committee has adopted the Local
Rule permitting relief from aeration holes, you may lift it off the
aeration hole and place it as close to where it lay as possible, no closer to
the hole [Appendix I, Part A, #3d].
Linda
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