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Removing DEAD Branches
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:44 am
by Danny White
This came up this past weekend.
A player has about a 30' putt where he has to putt around the trunk of a tree. Two feet in front of the player there is a dead and detached branch hanging down from a branch within the tree. Is it OK for the player to remove the dead branch before he putts?
Re: Removing DEAD Branches
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:23 am
by Jeff Wiechowski
Had this happen to me at Rindge this weekend. I asked the group and they said it was cool. Missed the putt and carded a 6.
EDIT: Actually the branch extended out into my lie and in front of it.
Re: Removing DEAD Branches
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:32 am
by Mike Connell
Read PDGA rule 803.05 A. It spells it out pretty plainly.
Re: Removing DEAD Branches
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:49 am
by Chuck Kennedy
No. Can't remove it even after the putt.
Re: Removing DEAD Branches
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:14 am
by Danny White
This happened during a playoff. There was an appointed official and I was a spectator.
I pointed it out to the official, but he didn't say anything. I don't think his fellow competitor saw it happen.
This would have changed the winner of the playoff.
Re: Removing DEAD Branches
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:37 am
by Drew Smith
1-stroke penalty - no warning.