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Swung at and Missed
A player who assumes
his stance, formally addresses the ball, and then fairly strikes at it, but in
so doing fails completely to make contact with any part of the ball, is deemed
to have performed a full-address rehearsal of his swing (practice swing) and therefore
need not count a stroke provided that he strictly observes the following procedure:
1. He must immediately
readdress the ball with the same club, and his next stroke shall be counted regardless
of result
2. He must not
exhibit any surprise or dismay or suggest by gesture or facial expression that
he ever harboured an expectation or belief that his swing would cause his ball
to undertake any forward movement whatsoever.
3. He must make
no remark disparaging the course, the prevailing weather conditions, the state
of his equipment, or the level of his own playing skill, other than a statement
taking note of the fortuitous elimination through practice of a faulty swing or
a declaration of an intention to strike at the ball with less force or in a more
controlled and measured manner when making his actual, true, real, final, intended,
and accountable stroke.
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