Jul 16, 2026 · 47 min · 12 segments
Think you need to be a scratch golfer to play competitive tournament golf? Don Frame, director of the US Am Tour Albany Region, joins us to explain why that could not be further from the truth. Don…
Don FrameGuestBrettHostJakeHostwhat time is it? It's time for the rule of the day, folks.
I got an interesting one for you.
It's pretty obscure.
It's not going to happen very often, but I thought it was pretty interesting when I looked it up.
So normally in golf, you cannot hit a moving ball.
So your ball's on the green.
It starts to move because of the slope of the green or for wind or whatever.
You would incur a penalty stroke normally if you hit the ball while it was in motion.
There is one exception to the rule, though.
If you are in a hazard, for instance, you're in a small brook and the ball is rolling down the brook more or less, or at the edge of the brook, maybe there's some grass alongside the edge of it or whatever, and you deem that you can slash it out of the water while the ball is still moving, perfectly legal without incurring a penalty stroke.
I want to see you do that sometime.
I've seen plenty of people on the PGA Tour take off their shoes and socks and roll up their pant legs and hit out of hazards, both water hazards.
Tom Kins got probably the most famous in the history of golf when he walked out towards where his ball was and he didn't realize that he was going to sink about waist deep in the mud.
That's probably the most famous one I can think of, but I've never seen somebody hit a moving ball in a hazard area, so that would be pretty interesting.
It is something I would try if the situation came up, although I did damage my 60 the other day trying to do a similar thing.
Ball was fixed in a position, but it was right up against some rocks underneath the grass at the edge of a creek, and I didn't see the rock and dented my 60-degree wedge.
My wife's going to love me when I tell her I got to replace the head on that.
Yeah, that was very difficult to hear and then see what happened.
It's funny what you're talking about with the ball moving.
So during one of the first PGA events this year, they were having so much trouble with the wind coming off, I think, the ocean.
that it was actually blowing golf balls that people had set, picked up their marker, and the ball would roll away.
And it was because of the wind.
And of course, they were very careful not to hit it.
They didn't want to get that stroke.
And they had to go to an official and be like, hey, what do I do? I can't get it to stay in place.
what time is it? It's time for the rule of the day, folks.
I got an interesting one for you.
It's pretty obscure.
It's not going to happen very often, but I thought it was pretty interesting when I looked it up.
So normally in golf, you cannot hit a moving ball.
So your ball's on the green.
It starts to move because of the slope of the green or for wind or whatever.
You would incur a penalty stroke normally if you hit the ball while it was in motion.
There is one exception to the rule, though.
If you are in a hazard, for instance, you're in a small brook and the ball is rolling down the brook more or less, or at the edge of the brook, maybe there's some grass alongside the edge of it or whatever, and you deem that you can slash it out of the water while the ball is still moving, perfectly legal without incurring a penalty stroke.
I want to see you do that sometime.
I've seen plenty of people on the PGA Tour take off their shoes and socks and roll up their pant legs and hit out of hazards, both water hazards.
Tom Kins got probably the most famous in the history of golf when he walked out towards where his ball was and he didn't realize that he was going to sink about waist deep in the mud.
That's probably the most famous one I can think of, but I've never seen somebody hit a moving ball in a hazard area, so that would be pretty interesting.
It is something I would try if the situation came up, although I did damage my 60 the other day trying to do a similar thing.
Ball was fixed in a position, but it was right up against some rocks underneath the grass at the edge of a creek, and I didn't see the rock and dented my 60-degree wedge.
My wife's going to love me when I tell her I got to replace the head on that.
Yeah, that was very difficult to hear and then see what happened.
It's funny what you're talking about with the ball moving.
So during one of the first PGA events this year, they were having so much trouble with the wind coming off, I think, the ocean.
that it was actually blowing golf balls that people had set, picked up their marker, and the ball would roll away.
And it was because of the wind.
And of course, they were very careful not to hit it.
They didn't want to get that stroke.
And they had to go to an official and be like, hey, what do I do? I can't get it to stay in place.
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