Play it as it lies!!!!

[fireman1153]

This may be a really stupid question but me and a friend of mine (motown88) were wondering the other day (when I almost put my tee shot in the hole; on the wrong green!!) how you would play that shot.  So, what would you do if you made a hole in one with your tee shot but it just so happened to be on the wrong hole?  For example:  Teeing off on 18 and making the ball in the hole on the 17th green.  The snap hook I hit (the only one of the day) had to have been no more than a few feet from doing this exact thing a couple days ago.

[Elvisliveson]

Not a stupid question, but a very good one. You get a free drop when you ball lands on the wrong green, so that rule would apply here.

[Motown88]

Well clearly you change your score on 17 to 1 and replay your drive on the 18th!!!!!!  At least that should be the rule

[Jimdangles]

If i missed that bad I would probably just quit and go home.

I kid I kid. I did this a few weeks ago. free drop I beleive no closer to the hole.

[fireman1153]

Originally Posted by Jimdangles

If i missed that bad I would probably just quit and go home.

I kid I kid. I did this a few weeks ago. free drop I beleive no closer to the hole.

I kind of figured that would be the rule.  I just had never actually heard of anyone hitting it into the wrong hole .  I was actually playing a very good round all day and hitting my driver straighter than I had all year, then, all of a sudden on 18 it took the sharpest turn left than I have EVER seen.  I am known to hook one every now and then but DAMN!  I never knew a shot like that was possible off the tee!

[Jimdangles]

Originally Posted by fireman1153

I kind of figured that would be the rule.  I just had never actually heard of anyone hitting it into the wrong hole .  I was actually playing a very good round all day and hitting my driver straighter than I had all year, then, all of a sudden on 18 it took the sharpest turn left than I have EVER seen.  I am known to hook one every now and then but DAMN!  I never knew a shot like that was possible off the tee!

mine was kind of a fade instead of a draw that went through the dogleg. that was actually my provisional after my first shot OB :(

I definitely wasnt one to talk haha.

[fireman1153]

LOL.  We all have that shot that comes from nowhere from time to time.

[Dormie1360]

Originally Posted by fireman1153

This may be a really stupid question but me and a friend of mine (motown88) were wondering the other day (when I almost put my tee shot in the hole; on the wrong green!!) how you would play that shot.  So, what would you do if you made a hole in one with your tee shot but it just so happened to be on the wrong hole?  For example:  Teeing off on 18 and making the ball in the hole on the 17th green.  The snap hook I hit (the only one of the day) had to have been no more than a few feet from doing this exact thing a couple days ago.

It's a free drop, but because it's the wrong putting green you must take relief off the green, Rule 25-3.  The player must find the Nearest Point of Relief and drop within one club length.  The NPR can not be on the putting green or in a hazard.

If you happened to hole out in the wrong hole on a double green, you would treat the wrong hole as an Abnormal Ground Condition (Rule 25-1), find the NPR on the green and place the ball.  Exception: If the double green was marked so you could identify the margin identifying the boundary of both greens, then you would be on a wrong green and have to take relief under that rule. (R25-3)