Knockahomalc
Newbie
If the disc lands and stays in the top of the basket, is this in or out? Thanks.
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Rule question?
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Johnny Conservative
Banned
Out...but it is not a penalty.
Curtis_Valk
Eagle Member
True. On your next turn you mark your lie directly below the disc and drop it in. I'm always hoping the wind will blow it off and into the basket but I know that isn't going to happen! :\
Curtis
Even if the wind did blow it off and into the basket, you still haven't holed out. You would replace it on top of the basket, mark underneath, and drop in.
Curtis_Valk
Eagle Member
Not if the disc falls in within a short[1-20 secs] time period after it lands on top. Had it happen on #4 Ann Mo doubles. The birdie counted.
ViolaBouquet
Eagle Member
Not exactly:
If it came to rest, and then falls in the basket after, most likely because of wind, it does not count.
My mistake for not being clear about what happened. The disc was bobbing on the edge of the top rim in the wind, and as I started walking towards the basket, it fell in[less than 10 secs]. As it had never established an "at rest" position, the basket counted.
ViolaBouquet
Eagle Member
I think that would be at the discretion of the group. On page 24 of the rules it says:
I guess if your group decides that the disc was still bobbing from the throw itself and falls it counts as in, but if it was just rocking, and the wind blew it in it would not count. It's hard for anyone else to call it.
I guess if your group decides that the disc was still bobbing from the throw itself and falls it counts as in, but if it was just rocking, and the wind blew it in it would not count. It's hard for anyone else to call it.
If it's bobbing in the wind and no longer moving of it's own inertia, it's at rest.
Note that this passage strictly deals with water and foliage, nothing else. This case in point is neither.
As a rulebook, this part should probably be expanded.
Rockiesfan4ever
Birdie Member
So I had this happen in a tournament and they counted it but I'm not sure. I putted and had my putt land on the top of the basket and when the next person holed out, the energy of them hitting the basket knocked my disc off the top of the basket and in.
That sentence does. But the previous sentence would presumably apply to the disc that comes to rest on top, and is subsequently blown off:
"A disc is considered to be at rest once it is no longer moving as a result of the momentum imparted by the throw."
That sentence is not limited to water.
Definitely should not have counted it. When a disc at rest is moved, it is returned to its original position. You don't get the benefit of interference like that.
Since it wasn't on the playing surface, it does not need to be returned to the top of the basket. However, it is marked under the basket approximately below where it had come to rest on top of the basket.
sonny
Eagle Member
If a disc is seen to have entered the basket through the top of the chain assembly, it's not in even if it never came to rest.
joshmo65
Eagle Member
What if it is an elevated basket above 2 meters where the two meter rule is in effect. Would this then be a penalty stroke?
joshmo65
Eagle Member
gvan
Birdie Member
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Even if it is another hole's basket?
Another hole's basket is a basket, but not the target. It's only the target on its own hole.
