Putting

[mattyarse]

Thanks Matty, looks like I signed for the wrong score :(

Ouch.  Hope it wasn't an important comp / personal best etc?

[Tomba]

Ouch.  Hope it wasn't an important comp / personal best etc?

It was the MSG outing at Dundonald, no great score going but it was a putt for birdie and I made it but called the penalty so only made par :(

[Tin Pot]

You need to look in the decisions section which is exactly as Joe has stated above. 

The point being that you can be penalised if you *move* the ball.   

The book defines what constitutes *movement* e.g. need to move to a different place from which it started (that is not verbatim but the essence is correct)

So that leaves us with if you touch the ball at address, and it oscillates slightly but ultimately returns to it's original position, you cannot be penalised as by the definitions of the rules book, you have not moved the ball.  No movement = no penalty.

Well, this is where it gets shaky - intention is important and we've only discussed accidentally moving the ball.

If you deliberately touch the ball, such as to rotate it on the same spot - as I did a couple of months ago - then you are indeed penalised.

[golf_bhoy]

Tomba, a side issue.  If you sign for a wrong score on a hole (and that's all you sign for - not the total or the Stableford points or anything else), you get to keep that score so long as it was HIGHER than it shoud have been.  LOWER and you'd face DQ.  There are circumstances where that may not be the case (after a competition result has been declared I think ... don't want to go too far OT).

For Dundonald your score stood as signed.

[Tomba]

Tomba, a side issue.  If you sign for a wrong score on a hole (and that's all you sign for - not the total or the Stableford points or anything else), you get to keep that score so long as it was HIGHER than it shoud have been.  LOWER and you'd face DQ.  There are circumstances where that may not be the case (after a competition result has been declared I think ... don't want to go too far OT).

For Dundonald your score stood as signed.

Good point, thanks GB.  I thought signing for an incorrect score higher or lower was a DQ.

And the Dundonald round was nothing great in terms of scoring.