R&A implementing ready golf at Amateur Championship

[nevets88]

By "implemented", what does that mean? If your partner is looking for his tee shot and you're ahead and ready to play, and you don't and wait, its that a penalty?

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“Ready golf” is to be implemented at this year’s Amateur Championship as the R&A steps up its attempt to improve pace of play in golf, with chief executive Martin Slumbers insisting that players like 
Jason Day have a responsibility in that respect as “role 
models”.

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/golf/ready-golf-to-be-used-by-r-a-in-the-amateur-championship-1-4372965

[saevel25]

The R&A would be waiving rule 10-1(c) for match play, the part were the opposing player can have the golfer cancel the stroke and then proceed to play in the correct order. 

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c. Playing Out of Turn

If a player plays when his opponent
 should have played, there is no penalty, but the opponent
 may immediately require the player to cancel the stroke
 so made and, in correct order, play a ball as nearly as possible at the spot from which the original ball was last played (see Rule 20-5).

 

[David in FL]

19 minutes ago, saevel25 said:

The R&A would be waiving rule 10-1(c) for match play, the part were the opposing player can have the golfer cancel the stroke and then proceed to play in the correct order. 

 

They're only doing it for the stroke play portion....

[saevel25]

Just now, David in FL said:

They're only doing it for the stroke play portion....

Then there is no rules violation anyways then except the part where if both parties agree to do it to give one an advantage over the field. Then it's a disqualification. 

I think it is pretty much just a golf etiquette thing more than a rules violation issue. 

[iacas]

9 minutes ago, saevel25 said:

Then there is no rules violation anyways then except the part where if both parties agree to do it to give one an advantage over the field. Then it's a disqualification.

It's still a breach. It's just a breach without a penalty attached.

[colin007]

If there's no penalty then what's it a breach of?

[iacas]

1 hour ago, colin007 said:

If there's no penalty then what's it a breach of?

The Rules of Golf. It's still a breach, there's just no penalty.

The Rules say play in a certain order. So if you don't, you've breached the Rules. It's just that there's no penalty in this instance for that breach.

[DeadMan]

Sort of related - at our state golf association rules seminar apparently, they apparently told the people there that agreeing to play ready golf breaches Rule 1-3. My head nearly exploded with anger when I heard that. Sounds like this definitively disproves that. As does the actual rule of playing out of turn, but I digress.

My personal opinion is that ready golf should be automatic for everything except match play. Frankly, I just do this myself without asking. I'm not going to wait while you fish out a tee and your ball from a pocket. Kudos to the R&A for doing this. I hope more tournaments follow.

[colin007]

On 2/25/2017 at 4:08 PM, iacas said:

The Rules of Golf. It's still a breach, there's just no penalty.

The Rules say play in a certain order. So if you don't, you've breached the Rules. It's just that there's no penalty in this instance for that breach.

Ok didn't realize that. Certainly off topic, but in my mind, if there's no penalty then it's not really a rule, practically speaking.  

Good for the RnA for doing this.