A player may gift a hole at any time before the start or completion of the hole.
A player may gift a hole at any time before starting or completing the hole.
A player may gift the next shot to his opponent at any time, provided the opponent's ball has come to rest. The golf ball is deemed to have been pocketed by the opponent with his next stroke and either party may remove the ball.
A gift may neither be refused nor revoked.
(Ball protrudes beyond the edge of the hole - see Rule 16-2).
As described above, the official rules of golf permit a gift of the hole in golf or a gift of a putt or a golf hole. A putt is usually gifted if the opponent can hole it with one hundred percent certainty or once when the putt may be difficult but a gift is fair and makes sense in terms of sportsmanship. Of course, such a decision sometimes requires a great deal of sporting fairness, but at the same time there are also opportunities in other situations not to putt and thus put the opponent under pressure. The decision to gift in the hole game is up to each player or golf team and requires tactical considerations. According to the DGV Rules of Golf, it only makes sense to give away the entire hole play in golf if it can no longer be won or shared or if the overall decision in the team competition has already been made in the other golf matches.
Status: 2018