[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by Rapscallion St Croix

How about this for a scenario? Let's say someone finds the sweet spot on the driver on a short par four starting hole. The ball takes a beautiful drawing path, lands just short of the green and rolls onto the putting surface and into the cup. It is then pointed out to the happy golfer after he has finished leaping and shouting, that he has 15 clubs in the bag and has incurred a two-stroke penalty.

Actually, it's a four stroke penalty. The penalty is two strokes for each hole where the player was carrying too many club with a maximum of four strokes.


Unless they were playing match play in which case it is a penalty of one hole.

Here's a good bar bet question. What is the worst score you can lose by in match play? The answer is 10 and 9.