
GC Refereeing: Practice Questions
Answer each question and include reference to the relevant rule or rules:
- What is the halfway line between hoops 12 and 13?
- When can a fault be committed?
- When is a fault condoned?
- A player plays a jump shot after which the opponent draws attention to an indentation in the lawn obviously caused by the ball. Is this a fault?
- When may extra strokes not be used?
- Ray plays Yellow through the hoop in order from the non-playing side. The ball goes through the hoop to the playing side but a rabbit run causes the ball to roll back into the jaws in a position where it has started to run the hoop. After Bab has played Blue, Ray then plays Red and peels Yellow through and claims the point. Is the point scored?
- How are the starting scores in Advantage Play doubles calculated?
- In a match of more than one game, who starts the 2nd and 3rd games and with which ball?
- In a game with no referee in charge, both players cannot agree on what has happened (i.e. fact). Whose opinion prevails?
- Bab scores a hoop with Blue. Ray plays Red quickly but Bab points out that Yellow is off-side and requests that Yellow is put on the penalty spot on the eastern boundary and for Ray to re-play Red. Does Ray have to replay Red? Ray then points out that Black is also off-side and asks for it to be placed on the same penalty spot. What should Bab's reply be?
- What are the definitions of the striker's ball and the striker?
- An inactive referee notices that a hoop has been run out of order. What should the referee do?
- Is there a maximum thinking time between strokes that is considered acceptable?
- The striker hits the hoop but does not touch the ball in the hoop but the ball quivers. Is this a fault?
- May a point be scored as the result of interference by an outside agency?
- In handicap doubles, Bab (handicap 8) and Ken (handicap 4) play Ray (handicap 6) and Yellow (handicap 6). What extra strokes are received and by whom?
- Bab plays the Yellow ball and in doing so, clearly double taps clearing Red. What is the penalty?
- Bab states that she will play an extra stroke after committing a fault. The balls are replaced. Bab then changes her mind. How does play proceed?
- Bab plays Blue which cannons off Red and hits her partner's mallet. B goes off the court. How does play proceed?
- How may a ball in an offside position when a point is scored not be an offside ball?