Imagine the scenario: You’re facing a testing shot to a tricky green with your ball sitting nicely in the fairway.
Standing right beside your ball, you want to check the distance one more time. You reach into your pocket for your yardage book and remove it.
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If you don’t replace it and make a stroke at the ball in its new position, your one-stroke penalty will be upgraded to a general penalty of two strokes in stroke play or loss of hole in match play. That is because you have now played a ball from a wrong place, in breach of Rule 14.7a. And that penalty becomes applicable.
Things would have been different if your ball had been on the putting surface, as in the picture above. If you accidentally cause the ball to move on a putting surface, there is no penalty. That’s Rule 13.1d(1).
But, you still need to be careful – If you don’t replace it on its original spot on the putting green and make a stroke at it, you would incur the general penalty for breaking Rule 14.7a.
If your glove drops on your ball and causes it to move anywhere on the course other than the putting green, it’s a…
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