Playing in the autumn and winter, you might fairly often face a scenario where leaves have blown on to the putting green. Sometimes they might have come to rest on the line of your putt. What do the Rules say about that?
First thing to note is that leaves are loose impediments – any unattached natural object and so can be moved under Rule 15.
If there are leaves on the line of your putt and you’d rather they weren’t there, you are within your rights to move them away.
But, and this is the answer to our main question – You cannot simply take any leaf and go and place it on a spot to act as a target line.
If you had a leaf that you liked the look of on your line and it blew away, you couldn’t go and place another one there.
So – If there is a leaf on your line of play, you don’t have to move it. If someone else does, you can put it back.
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