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            <title>Rules: Preferred lies on closely mowed areas</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Question from Jenny Brown:

There are preferred lies under the Local Rules in operation for the competition, Player A hit her ball through the green and it came up to rest up against a tree. She had no backswing but as she was still on a 'closely mowed area' she took the club length as allowed and moved away from the offending tree and had a clear chip back onto the green.]]></description>
            <author>Nick Krige </author>
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            <title>Grazing a hazard</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Question: Stuart Fraser

In a hazard, a lateral water hazard you are not allowed to ground the club ; but if you take a practice swing and for instance you graze the grass on the edge of the water, is there a penalty?]]></description>
            <author>Nick Krige </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[As an introduction to a new monthly column in which he will be solving your golfing dilemmas, Kevin Barker, the R&amp;A’s assistant director of rules, talks through the role of golf’s governing body in regulating how the game is played and explains some significant changes for 2012.]]></description>
            <author>Nick Krige </author>
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            <title>Switching balls</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Golf Guru tackles the 'One-Ball' ruling.]]></description>
            <author>Nick Krige </author>
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            <title>Bumper balls</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Question from Arno Mouton:

I’m on the green for 1 (par 3), my partner is off the green or in the bunker. He does not ask my ball to be marked and lifted, he plays his 2nd shot, bumps my ball into the hole. What’s my score and the penalty situation? ]]></description>
            <author>Nick Krige </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an attempt to address some of the complaints with the current handicap method, the South Africa Golf Association (SAGA) has decided to align its system more closely with the USGA.]]></description>
            <author>Nick Krige </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Your ball is on a steep slope in the rough. You are at the ball busy taking a stance, but before you address the ball, it rolls down the slope (not by anything you did). Is there a penalty and should the ball be replaced?]]></description>
            <author>Nick Krige </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Wat gebeur as jy die verkeerde bal uit die rough uit speel?
What happens if you play a wrong ball out of the rough.]]></description>
            <author>Nick Krige </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Question: Graham Arnott

Were we right to play it as it lies?]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Question from Jason Purcel:

What happens if someone steals your ball?]]></description>
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