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If a ball is touched with the clubhead after the ball has been addressed and does not move has a rule been broken? What if, in the same situation above, the ball oscillates and still doesn't move? I'm using the USGA definition of move: A ball is deemed to have "moved" if it leaves its position and comes to rest in any other place.
Hi Chip:
No rule is broken. Ball must move out of it's original position. If it oscillates and does not move out of it's original position, no penalty. One of the few rules in golf that is pretty black and white. It either does or it doesn't.
Eddie Kilthau
PGA Member
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Eddie Kilthau
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I am a PGA golf professional specializing in teaching the game.
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I played collegiately at Arizona State University, then turned professional in 1981. I became the shortest player to ever play in the United States Open at Oakmont Country Club in Pittsburgh & missed my PGA Tour card by 2 shots in 1986 at PGA West, La Quinta, California. I have been teaching for 26 years in Phoenix, Arizona & I am currently the Director of Instruction at the Vistal Club in Phoenix and owner of Victory Golfworks.
Business Administration, Arizona State University. PGA Business School I - 1986, PGA Business School II - 1992, PGA Advanced Business School III - 1995. Certified PING Clubfitter - 1999. PGA Teaching & Clubfitting Seminar - 1992. Numerous Southwest Section PGA educational seminars.
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