Junior GolfQUIZ Try It Southwest Florida Junior Golf Association Quiz To help our junior golfers understand the Rules of Golf, we've created this rules test to prepare our players for competition. Please fill in your first and last name, and complete the entire test using your Rules of Golf books if needed. We highly encourage all of our members—both new and old—to take this test to further your knowledge of the Rules. Thank you and Good Luck!Player Name* First Last Player Email* ANSWER TRUE OF FALSE FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:1) A player may stand outside the teeing ground to play a ball that is teed up within the teeing ground. (Rule 11-1) True False 2) A player who tees off in front of the tee markers incurs a 2 stroke penalty and must re-tee. (Definition of Teeing Ground & Rule 11-4) True False 3) A ball may be declared Unplayable at any place on the course under penalty to one stroke (Rule 28) True False 4) If a player, whose ball lies in a bunker, declares it unplayable, he/she may drop a ball within two club lengths of where it lies, no nearer the hole, but it must be dropped in the bunker. (Rule 28) True False 5) A player may improve his/her lie by pressing a club down on the ground behind the ball “through the green”. (Rule 13-2) True False 6) When a stroke is made from the putting green, there is no penalty if the player’s ball strikes the flagstick attended, unattended or removed and placed on the ground. (Rule 17-3) True False 7) When a ball is hit “out of bounds”, the players only option is to play their next shot (under the penalty of stroke and distance) from the spot where they played their previous stroke. (Definition 27-1b) True False 8) Objects such as white stakes that identify “out of bounds” are themselves out of bounds. (Definition of Out of Bounds) True False 9) A player may hit practice shots into the woods during their round while waiting for the group in front. (Rule 7-2) True False 10) If a player’s ball is not found within 5 minutes after the search is started, it is a lost ball. (Definitions) True False 11) If a ball in play and at rest is moved by another ball in motion, the moved ball must be replaced (Rule 18-5) True False 12. When a ball may be lost somewhere (other than a water hazard) or Out of Bounds, a player may immediately declare and hit a “provisional”. (Rule 27-2) True False 13) All disputes between players must be resolved by a rules official or at the scoreboard before signing your opponents scorecard True False 14) If you make a swing with the intention of striking your ball and miss completely it could be considered a practice swing. (Definition – stroke) True False 15) All “lateral water hazards” are marked with either red lines or stakes. (Definitions) True False 16) The ball must be fairly struck at with the head of the club and can’t be pushed or scraped. (Rule 14-1) True False 17) A player is allowed to play a ball that is in a water hazard, but they cannot ground their club. (Rule 13-4) True False 18) Loose impediments are natural objects such as stones, leaves twigs and branches and may be removed when they are near your ball (except in a hazard) True False 19) Under the Rules of Golf, both bunkers and water hazards are considered hazards. (Definitions) True False 20) A player may take relief without penalty from casual water in a bunker by dropping at the closest point of relief outside the bunker. (Rule 25-1b(ii)) True False CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:21) When a ball is declared unplayable, the player may take relief as follows: A. Proceed under stroke and distance penalty and play as nearly as possible at the spot from which the original ball was last played. B. Add one penalty stroke and drop a ball behind where the unplayable ball lay, keeping that point directly between the hole and the spot on which the ball is dropped (no limit how far you go back). C. Add one penalty stroke and drop a ball within two club-lengths of the spot where the ball lay, but no nearer the hole. D. All of the above are correct options. 22) When a player's ball goes into a lateral water hazard, which statement below describes one of his options: A. Add a penalty stroke and play the ball as it lies from inside the hazard. B. Proceed under the stroke and distance penalty and play next shot from previous location. C. Add a penalty stroke and drop a ball somewhere on the previous shot’s line of flight. D. Add two penalty strokes and drop a ball within two club-lengths from the spot where the ball last crossed the margin of the lateral hazard. 23) Which one of the following is allowed by the Rules of Golf: A. Asking another player which club they just used on a Par 3 hole. B. Switching to a different ball when you get close to the green C. Marking and lifting your ball when off the green if it interferes with another player D. Moving your ball to improve your lie 24) A player is entitled to relief without penalty from a cart path (immovable obstruction) when: A. His ball lies on the cart path. B. His stance is on the cart path. C. His club hits the curbing of the cart path when he simulates a swing for the stroke. D. Any or all of the above occur. 25) If your ball lies on a wrong putting green (any green other than the hole being played), how should you proceed? (Rule 25-3) A. You must drop the ball within one club-length of and not nearer the hole than the nearest point of relief with no penalty B. You must drop the ball within one club-length of and not nearer the hole than the nearest point of relief and add one penalty stroke C. Play the ball as it lies D. Return to the spot where previous stroke was played and replay the stroke with no penalty. Please fill out correctly before quiz submission Δ
