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buy Lyrica pills You mark your ball on a putting green. Your coin is in another player’s line, so he asks you to move it one putter-head length to the side. When it’s your turn to putt, you have to remember to move your coin back before replacing your ball and making your own putt, because if you don’t you incur a penalty of two strokes (in stroke play) or loss of hole (in match play). (See Rule 20-7.)
This actually happens. At the Crowne Plaza Invitational, back in May, Zach Johnson forgot to replace his coin on the final green and incurred a two-stroke penalty for putting from the wrong place. Luckily, he had a three-stroke lead, and someone noticed the mistake before he’d signed an incorrect card.
In a local tournament many years ago, an opponent of mine moved his marker at my request, then forgot to move it back. I noticed and reminded him before he putted—and he was as astonished as if I had handed him a thousand dollars. “You’d have won the hole if you’d let me putt,” he said, suggesting that he wouldn’t have done the same for me. Who would want to win a hole that way? Him, I guess.
There’s a foolproof way to remember that you, a partner, or an opponent has moved a marker: stick a tee in your nose and leave it there until the marker is back where it began. That’s what I do, anyway. (See photo above.)
Recently, my friend Rick and I played in a state senior tournament, and my tee-in-nose trick kept us out of trouble with Rule 20-7. The course was nice, too, although its address was even better. Here’s a picture of the street sign on the corner nearest the clubhouse:
Actually, it’s kind of amazing that the sign was still there. If I’d been forty years younger, I might have swiped it myself. (No penalty under the Rules of Golf, in either stroke play or match play.) My home club is on Golf Course Rd. Here’s what our street sign looks like:
I swear I’m not the one who took it.
Unfortunately for me the golf tee I use is way too big for my nose. Luckily I have never had a problem remembering to replace my marker, (a quarter). I do like your photo though, how many times in a round do you look like this.
I mark my ball heads up …unless I have had to move it….then I switch to tails.
What would happen if you forgot which way you moved your marker. What if no one else knew either. Is that a penalty?
Maybe right nostril is one direction, left nostril the other?
Pretty funny. I like the tee in the nose to remind yourself to move your ball marker back. But, I’d forget the tee is in my nose. On the back of our photo ball markers we put a large arrow. When you need to move your ball marker you not only flip it over you point the arrow the direction you need to move it back.
I always flip my putter and hold it by the head, i can still lean on it if i want but i can’t putt with it.
Love the carne shirt! Played it a couple of years ago!
@Robert: I like the heads/tails idea, but the difference isn’t striking enough (I could easily not notice the difference). I like putting white-out or white paint on one side of the coin and doing the same trick (flipping it over when I move the mark).
Another possibility (if you want to keep both nostrils free) is to stick a tee in the little hole at the top of your putter grip. You won’t putt without noticing it.