ChUcK
October 13th, 2010, 09:22 AM
I am pretty familiar with practice throws and the appropriate penalties involved, but a scenario came up during a casual round that made me wonder how it should be called during a sanctioned PDGA event.
The situation was: a player, while tapping out, held his putter in the air, threw another putter at it, and both went into the chains. This isn't my question, just the setup.
The question is: is a player throws two discs simultaneously, which is the real throw and which is the practice throw? What if a player takes a pancake stack o' discs and dumps them all into the basket while tapping out? What if one of those discs didn't make it into the basket- would that be the player's official throw? What if only one fell in the bucket, would that one be the official throw and the rest practice throws?
Now that I am trying to explain this question to a keyboard it sounds even stupider than it did on the course.
What would be the best ruling on a player throwing multiple discs simultaneously, say during a temper-tantrum?
The situation was: a player, while tapping out, held his putter in the air, threw another putter at it, and both went into the chains. This isn't my question, just the setup.
The question is: is a player throws two discs simultaneously, which is the real throw and which is the practice throw? What if a player takes a pancake stack o' discs and dumps them all into the basket while tapping out? What if one of those discs didn't make it into the basket- would that be the player's official throw? What if only one fell in the bucket, would that one be the official throw and the rest practice throws?
Now that I am trying to explain this question to a keyboard it sounds even stupider than it did on the course.
What would be the best ruling on a player throwing multiple discs simultaneously, say during a temper-tantrum?