LINDFIELD VETS

     Rule 1 introduces the central principles of the game for the player:

• Play the course as you find it and play the ball as it lies.
• Play by the Rules and in the spirit of the game.
• You are responsible for applying your own penalties if you breach a Rule, so that you cannot gain any potential advantage over your opponent in match play or other players in stroke play.   

"Most cheaters are highly competitive people with narcissistic ego structures. They're driven to maintain an image of power and control at all costs," says Tobias Schreiber, a retired professional therapist from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. "At heart, they suffer from an underlying sense of inadequacy."

From AmateurGolf.com (staff)

RULES CORNER  - Identifying Your Ball

Rule 7.3 Lifting Ball To Identify It

Rule 14 Procedures for Ball: Marking, Lifting and Cleaning;Replacing on Spot; Dropping in Relief Area; Playing from Wrong Place

If you HAVE to lift or rotate your ball to identify it you MUST mark it and you MUST replace it in EXACTLY the samespot.

Failure to do so incurs a 1 shot penalty. However, subsequently playing from the wrong place incurs a 2 shot penalty.