Rules of sport

GOLF
22.
If a ball
in motion
be stopped or deflected by any agency
outside the match, or by the forecaddie,lthe ball must be played
from where it lies, and the occurrence submitted to as a " rub of
the green." If a ball lodge in anything moving, a ball shall be
dropped as near as possible to the place where the object was
when the ball lodged in it without penalty. If a ball
at nest
be
displaced by any agency outside the match, excepting wind, the
player shall drop a ball as near as possible to the place where it
lay, without penalty. On the putting-green the ball shall be
replaced by hand, without penalty.
23.
If the player's ball strike, or be moved by, an opponent,
or an opponent's caddie or clubs, the opponent shall lose the
hole.
24. When a player has holed out and his opponent has been
left with a putt for the half, nothing that the player can do shall
deprive him of the half which he has already gained.
25. If the player's ball strike or be stopped by himself or his
partner, or either of their caddies or clubs, his side shall lose the
hole.
26. If the player, when not intending to make a stroke, or his
partner, or either of their caddies, move his or their ball, or by
touching anything cause it to move when it is in play, the penalty
shall be one stroke. If a ball in play move, after the player has
grounded his club in the act of addressing it, or when in a hazard,
if he has taken up his stand to play it, he shall be deemed to
have caused it to move, and the movement shall be counted as
his stroke.
27. Except from the tee a player shall not play while his ball
is moving under penalty of the loss of the hole. If the ball only
begin to move awhile the player is making his upward or down-
ward swing he shall incur no penalty for playing while it is
moving, but is not exempted from the penalty stroke which he
may have incurred under Rules 9,
17,
or 26, and in a foursome
a stroke lost under Rule 26 shall not, in these circumstances, be
counted as the stroke of the player, so as to render him liable
for having played when his partner should have done so.
28. If the player when making a stroke strike the ball twice
the penalty shall be one stroke, and he shall incur no further
penalty by reason of his having played while his ball was moving.
29. If a player play the opponent's ball his side shall lose the
hole, unless (i) the opponent then play the player's ball, whereby
the penalty is cancelled, and the hole must be played out with
the balls thus exchanged, or
(2)
the mistake occur through
wrong information given by the opponent or his caddie, in which
case there shall be no penalty, but the mistake, if discovered
before the opponent has played, must be rectified by placing a
ball as near as possible to the place where the opponent's ball
lay.
If a player play a stroke with the ball of a party not engaged
in the snatch, and the mistake be discovered and intimated to
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