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Golf Monthly
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Fergus Bisset

If I Stop Someone’s Hole-Bound Putt With My Foot, Am I Disqualified?

Stopping a golf ball with foot.

You’re watching on as a playing partner in a stroke play event stands over a snaking 30-footer. You’re feeling highly fed up having just three-putted for the sixth time during the round.

Standing near the hole you become increasingly irritated as your partner’s putt gets ever closer to the cup. It’s clearly going in. Without thinking and, in a fit of pique, you stick out your foot and prevent the ball going in.

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