Chipping on the green.

You may use any club in your bag from any place on the course.  You can tee off with your putter if you like.  You may pitch or chip on the green.

For those of us not playing professional tournament golf, the course will rightfully discourage (or even prohibit) chipping on the green......in other words, kids, don't try this at home!

Chipping on the putting green is not forbidden by the Rules.

I'll mess with David's assertion, " You may use any club in your bag from any place on the course." for a minute. (Not because I wish to argue with him ... he's a smart guy about the Rules and a distinguished pillar of the Sandtrap Rules folder.)

This folder went dark for almost a week and we haven't had anything to talk about, plus I'm suddenly snowed-in in Asheville and he's not.

Back to "You may use any club in your bag from any place on the course." I can think of one instance when that statement might not apply. There must (or may) be others.

And, OP, your question is quite legitimate. Last week at Pebble Beach Hunter Mahan chipped from the front of #17 to the back hole location because there was no easy putting line.

Huh........

Gonna have to think about that.  Give me a few.

Still here.....

We're talking a normal, conforming club.  Not one that's been damaged or an excess club declared out of play, right?

Measuring?

I was talking specifically about using it for a stroke though......

I read this thread three times this morning before you @ed me and I missed that every time. :doh:

This is similar thinking.

http://www.usga.org/Rule-Books/Rules-of-Golf/Decision-20/#d20-2c-0.7

The player would like to use his wedge, but is not allowed.  He must re-drop instead.

I will bet a virtual beer that there isn't  any Rule which dictates what club you must or must not use to make a stroke - assuming that you have only 14 in your bag, none has been borrowed from another player on the course and none is non-conforming.

Think "any place" vs "any club."

That's not a situation where he's prohibited from using a certain club though.....in this case he needs to re-drop because the ball rolled to a spot where he didn't achieve relief from the circumstance that allowed the drop in the first place.

I suspect that your sweeping statement is correct, thus I'll not accept your offer.

Shame.  I recall enjoying a Sam Adams or three when I was in the USA some years ago and hoped for a virtual taste of a fine beer.

The statement may be sweeping, but  it was carefully crafted to avoid what I sensed was a trap in the wording of the original challenge.

There are places "on the course" that you may not be allowed to make any stroke at all, an environmentally sensitive area for example, but that's not what you're going for, is it?

And again, in responding to the OP, I was talking about "using" a club to make a stroke, not measuring.