Hi Linda,
When walking from the 10th green to the 11th tee, we teed
off and walked up the fairway to realize that we accidentally teed off the 14th
hole.
We walked back to the correct 11th tee and continued the round.
What us the penalty if any please?
Thanks for all your terrific insight into the rules.
Lou from Melbourne, Australia
Dear Lou,
The penalty in stroke play for playing from the wrong teeing
ground is two strokes [Rule 11-5]. If you had completed play of Hole #14 and
teed off on #15, you would have been disqualified; since you corrected the
error before teeing off on #15, you incur the two-stroke penalty and may
continue your round [Decisions 11-5/4 and 11-5/1]. Don’t count any of the
strokes you made while playing #14; just add two strokes to your score for Hole
#11.
Linda
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