A Golf Cart Ran Over My Golf Ball | What is the Ruling? | Golf Rules Explained

In this video, a player in my group accidentally ran over my ball with a golf cart. It's now stuck in the ground. I discuss several golf rules concepts including "moved", "embedded", "replacing", and "replacing when original lie altered", and navigate through the rulebook to demonstrate the correct relief procedure.

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📖 RULE "Moved" Definition:
When your ball at rest has left its original spot and come to rest on any other spot, and this can be seen by the naked eye (whether or not anyone actually sees it do so).

This applies whether your ball has gone up, down or horizontally in any direction away from its original spot.

If your ball only wobbles (sometimes referred to as oscillating) and stays on or returns to its original spot, your ball has not moved.

📖 RULE 9.6: Ball Lifted or Moved by Outside Influence
If it is known or virtually certain that an outside influenceOutside Influence: Any of these people or things that can affect what happens to a player’s ball or equipment or to the course: (including another player in stroke play or another ball) lifted or moved a player’s ball:

-- There is no penalty, and
-- The ball must be replaced on its original spot (which if not known must be estimated) (see Rule 14.2).

This applies whether or not the player’s ball has been found.

But if it is not known or virtually certain that the ball was lifted or moved by an outside influence and the ball is lost, the player must take stroke-and-distance relief under Rule 18.2.

If the player’s ball is played as a wrong ball by another player, that is covered by Rule 6.3c(2), not by this Rule.

📖 RULE 14.2a. Original Ball Must Be Used
The original ball must be used when replacing a ball.
Exception – Another Ball May Be Used When:
• The original ball cannot be recovered with reasonable effort and in a few seconds, so long as the player did not deliberately cause the ball to become unrecoverable,
• The original ball is cut or cracked (see Rule 4.2c),
• Play resumes after it had been stopped (see Rule 5.7d), or
• The original ball was played by another player as a wrong ball (see Rule 6.3c(2)).

14.2d: Where to Replace Ball When Original Lie Altered
If the lie of a lifted or moved ball that must be replaced is altered, the player must replace the ball in this way:
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(2) Ball Anywhere Except in Sand:
When the ball was anywhere except in sand, the player must replace the ball by placing it on the nearest spot with a lie most similar to the original lie that is:
-- Within one club-length from its original spot (which if not known must be estimated) (see Rule 14.2c),
-- Not nearer the hole, and
-- In the same area of the course as that spot.

If the player knows that the original lie was altered but does not know what the lie was, the player must estimate the original lie and replace the ball under (1) or (2).