Rules of Golf - Rule 11: Teeing Ground
11-1. Teeing
When the player’s ball is to be teed within the teeing ground, it must
be placed on:
• the surface of the teeing ground including an irregularity of surface
(whether or not created by the player), or
• a tee placed in or on the surface of the teeing ground, or
• sand or other natural substance placed on the surface of the teeing
ground.
A player may stand outside the teeing ground to play a ball within it.
In teeing, if a player uses a non-conforming tee or any other object to
raise the ball off the ground, he is disqualified.
11-2.
Tee-Markers
Before a player makes his first stroke with any ball on the teeing
ground of the hole being played, the tee-markers are deemed to be fixed.
In these circumstances, if the player moves or allows to be moved a
tee-marker for the purpose of avoiding interference with his stance, the
area of his intended swing or his line of play, he incurs the penalty
for a breach of Rule 13-2.
11-3. Ball
Falling Off Tee
If a ball, when not in play, falls off a tee or is knocked off a tee by
the player in addressing it, it may be re-teed without penalty. However,
if a stroke is made at the ball in these circumstances, whether the ball
is moving or not, the stroke counts but there is no penalty.
11-4. Playing
from Outside Teeing Ground
g a. Match Play
If a player, when starting a hole, plays a ball from outside the teeing
ground there is no penalty, but the opponent may immediately require the
player to cancel the stroke and play a ball from within the teeing
ground.
g b. Stroke Play
If a competitor, when starting a hole, plays a ball from outside the
teeing ground, he incurs a penalty of two strokes and must then play a
ball from within the teeing ground.
If the competitor plays a stroke from the next teeing ground without
first correcting his mistake or, in the case of the last hole of the
round, leaves the putting green without first declaring his intention to
correct his mistake, he is disqualified.
The stroke from outside the teeing ground and any subsequent strokes by
the competitor on the hole prior to his correction of the mistake do not
count in his score.
11-5. Playing
from Wrong Teeing Ground
The provisions of Rule 11-4 apply.
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