HAL LENOBEL
Contributing Columnist
golf@lbknews.com
The other day an interesting occurrence took place while playing from the tee. I will not mention the player’s name so as to protect his identity and avoid embarrassment. Hence, I will call the player Vinnie.
Vinnie placed his ball on the tee and took a mighty swing. The result was not quite a whiff, but the ball did advance about six inches. Apparently the wind created by the swing did actually move the ball off the tee. Vinnie then picked up his ball, not realizing that was a breach of the rules and worthy of a penalty.
I advised Vinnie of his error, which he attempted to correct by replacing the ball on the tee, another rules infraction (Decision 18-2a/l). In reality, Vinnie was hitting four, one stroke for moving his ball, two strokes for hitting from a wrong place and of course
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