Laws
APPENDIX 4
ALTERNATE STROKE HANDICAP DOUBLES PLAY
When a game is played under the conditions
of Alternate Stroke Handicap Doubles Play, the laws of Handicap Doubles Play
apply subject to the following modifications.
1. NON-APPLICATION
OF VARIOUS LAWS
Law 37(f), Law 40(a)
and Law 43(b) do not apply.
2. ALTERNATE
STROKE PLAY
Subject to Paragraph 3 below, the players
of each side play alternate strokes throughout the game and from turn to turn,
whether such turns are ordinary turns, bisques or half-bisques. Thus the partner
of the player who played the last stroke of a turn plays the first stroke of his
side's next turn.
3. ERRORS
- PLAYING
OUT OF SEQUENCE
- If
an adversary observes that a player is about to play out of sequence, he
must forestall play immediately.
- If
a player plays out of sequence and the error is discovered before the offending
side has played two further strokes, the error is rectified and the correct
player then plays. Any half-bisque or bisque played after the first stroke
in error is restored (see Law 39(a)(1)).
- If
the error is discovered after the limit of claims, play is deemed to have
proceeded as if the player had not played out of sequence and play continues
according to the sequence thereby established.
- OTHER
ERRORS If any other error is rectifed, the partner of the player who played
the first stroke in error plays the first stroke of his side's next turn.
4. INTERFERENCES
If play is deemed not to have occurred
following discovery of an interference under Laws 30 to 32,
the player who played the first affected stroke plays the first stroke of his
side's next turn.