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Is there a penalty if you cause your ball to move on the putting green?
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If you cause your ball to move on the putting green, it all depends on whether the action was deliberate or accidental.
• An example of a deliberate action, throwing your marker at the ball, or picking your ball up to clean it, or identify it, or to then replace it with its identification line to the hole. These are permissible actions, but you must mark the ball first, otherwise you incur a penalty of one stroke and must replace the ball.
• An example of an accidental action, kicking the ball when tripping over, removing loose impediments, fixing a pitch mark, dropping your marker accidentally, accidentally hitting the ball in your practice swing.
• There is no penalty if the movement was accidental.
• Make sure to always mark the ball before you intend to lift or move it deliberately.
• Be more careful around your ball.
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