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Hit Under Pressure
A player is entitled
to relief when anxiety-producing conditions exist, as follows:
1. If a player
hits his ball into an adjacent fairway, and players on that hole require him to
make his next shot under their observation before they continue their play of
that hole, and he then not his ball, he may either play it again from the place
where it comes to rest without assessing a stroke, or he may wait until those
players have vacated the fairway, then return to the approximate spot where his
ball originally lay, place it in an equally favourable lie, and replay the stroke.
2. If a player
is playing through another group of players on any hole, or has been waved up
to hit on a par-three hole by a playing group that then stands aside on the edge
of the green and watches, and he proceeds to grossly misplay the hole, his score
shall be reduced to whatever score he honestly believes and forcefully asserts
that he would have achieved had he not been subjected to stressful conditions
of play.
3. If a player
is obliged to hit a shot on any hole where groundskeepers are operating grass-cutting
machinery, or tending to greens or bunkers, or repairing or reseed-ing damaged
turf, or are otherwise engaged in the grooming of the course, and that player
makes an unsatisfactory shot, he may replay it once without assessing a stroke,
regardless of whether he mis-hit his original ball as a result of his nervous
concern for the well-being of the course maintenance personnel or his morbid fear
of their ridicule.
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