Weird golf rule question

[Comeback]

This happened in just a casual round of golf so it didn't matter but i was wondering what would happen in a competition.

So i was teeing off right over a lake, and while my ball was in mid flight a huge crow decided to commit suicide and fly right into my ball. There were feathers everywhere and my ball fell straight down into the water. Would i drop a ball and take a penalty?

[Jay-Bird]

Rule 19

The bird is an outside agency. Play it as it lies. You would play it as if you hit into the water...

[Chief Broom]

  Jay-Bird said:

Rule 19

But if you hit a power line over the water you get a redo?

[brgolf]

That would be a local rule I believe.

[Mattplusness]

Sorry but that's some funny shit lol

[DavidFehertysBike]

That sucks...hahaha. The bird probably thought your ball was food or something..

[Comeback]

  Mattplusness said:

Sorry but that's some funny shit lol

It looked like the bird exploded mid-air, we were laughing so hard after it happend

[zeg]

  Chief Broom said:

But if you hit a power line over the water you get a redo?

If there is a local rule that says so, then yes. In that case, the rule would say that you MUST replay a shot that hits the line. It would not be optional, so even if you banked one off the power line and into the cup, you must cancel the stroke and try again.

[Shorty]

  Comeback said:

It looked like the bird exploded mid-air, we were laughing so hard after it happend

I've seen some funny things on a golf course, but I wouldn't be laughing if I saw this.

[holeinon3]

  Shorty said:

I've seen some funny things on a golf course, but I wouldn't be laughing if I saw this.

A more common emotion would probably be shock..

[clubhousehero]

Would that be called a birdie?





sorry i just had to do it.

[trickymicky69]

My mates ball was picked up by a seagull once.

I let him play it again but in a comp it would probably be a dropped shot.

[CarlSpackler]

I've had this happen to me before. Darn feathered pest swooped down right after I hit and my ball glanced off his belly and fell to the ground. Since the ball was in motion when affected by the outside agency, it is a rub of the green and you play it as it lies. Another time, while my friend was playing his ball (from the deep rough), I noticed a hawk had swooped down and was clutching my ball (in the middle of the fairway) with his talon. I stared at it and said, "Don't even think about it bird!" and it flew off without my ball. I checked the old rulebook after the round just in case he had taken off with it, and you can replace without penalty if you ball is at rest when the outside agency moves it.

[saevel25]

Only hit one bird in my lift, caused my ball to go into a bunker.

[martytilma]

  Jay-Bird said:

Rule 19

I think its funny that the first person to respond to the post is "Jay-Bird"!!

[BallStriker]

I was playing with my girlfriend once and she hit this screaming worm-burner that hit a duck square in the ass.....I nearly fell out of the cart laughing and then I finally look over and she has tears in her eyes because the duck was obviously hurt.....Sure, I felt like an assh*le, but just coudn't stop laughing....

[Crey23]

  BallStriker said:

I was playing with my girlfriend once and she hit this screaming worm-burner that hit a duck square in the ass.....I nearly fell out of the cart laughing and then I finally look over and she has tears in her eyes because the duck was obviously hurt.....Sure, I felt like an assh*le, but just coudn't stop laughing....

so what happened to the duck a$$hole? :)

[Rexx]