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marking the ground infront of your throw

Gday

I was wondering if your allowed to mark the ground infront of you before you throw an example is.

We played this hole where it shoots up hill then plays flat and you cant see the basket so one of the players marked out where the basket was or where he wanted to throw by laying down a dead branch at the top of the hill so he knew where he wanted to throw it.

Is this allowed?

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Permalink Reply by William Gilbert on March 23, 2009 at 7:16pm

Never heard of that one before. Good question.

Permalink Reply by William Gilbert on March 23, 2009 at 7:27pm

Here is a thought for you. As you are not allowed to move things in front of your disc we shall say between your disc and the basket if the stick was somewhere in front of you lie that would be illegal.
If however you brought a stick from behind your lie or used the water bottle like chad suggested you wouldn't have a problem in this case.

Permalink Reply by krupicka on March 23, 2009 at 7:32pm

William Gilbert said:

Here is a thought for you. As you are not allowed to move things in front of your disc we shall say between your disc and the basket if the stick was somewhere in front of you lie that would be illegal.
If however you brought a stick from behind your lie or used the water bottle like chad suggested you wouldn't have a problem in this case.

But if you happen to hit that water bottle in front of your lie, you will be subject to a 2-stroke penalty for interference. Be careful.

Permalink Reply by William Gilbert on March 23, 2009 at 7:33pm

Man the web the rules weave.

Permalink Reply by stephen b on March 23, 2009 at 10:03pm

you'd be walking ahead of other players and maybe not ready to throw when it was your turn

Permalink Reply by tick on March 24, 2009 at 2:02am

Good question!
stephen b's point! 30 seconds is probably not enough time to mark your line and make the shot. read 801.03 Excessive Time in the rules. If you have a caddy to mark it, you maybe could.

Permalink Reply by William Gilbert on March 24, 2009 at 2:13am

Come on now we aren't talking about the 30 second rule here. Valid and true it be.

That is one of those rules that drives me crazy, ever watched a PRO in a bad lie? 30 seconds pleaze!

Permalink Reply by AuSSie on March 24, 2009 at 2:27am

I know he went down there before the rounds in the morning had started and marked the lie so it was done even before the tournament started

Permalink Reply by William Gilbert on March 24, 2009 at 2:31am

David what you just said conflicts greatly with what you asked when you started this discussion.
Marking during a round is different then marking pre the 1st round. and how would somebody mark a line pre-round when they don't know where they are going to lie. sounds fishy to me. clarification please.

Permalink Reply by AuSSie on March 24, 2009 at 2:39am

i appologise i only noticed the error when people started talking about the 30 sec rule.

He marked the lie with a dead branch before the tournament had started that day.

The only way i found out was because he told one of the other players on his card that the basket was straight over the hill inline with branch he had placed there before the round.

Permalink Reply by William Gilbert on March 24, 2009 at 2:43am

That does not match the question you asked!

Permalink Reply by AuSSie on March 24, 2009 at 4:40am

well people make mistakes dude.

still a legit question could happen to someone else

and it sort of answers my question anyways