Double hit ruling

[The Saint]

If a player is playing his/her 2nd shot chipping onto the green and accidently hits the ball again as he/she is completing the swing is the player now playing his/her 4th or 5th shot. Basically is it a 1 or 2 stroke penalty?

[Ginker]

You count each hit as a shot.

[Ginker]

You would be hitting your 4th shot.

[LobWedge]

Rule 14-4. Count the original stroke and add a penalty stroke. The TC Chen rule.

[The Saint]

Got it... One of the game's more celebrated Rules incidents involved Rule 14-4, or the "T.C. Chen Rule," as many refer to it. With a four-stroke lead in the final round of the 1985 U.S. Open, Chen "double-hit" a chip shot near the fifth green. The accounting for this act goes like this -- count the stroke and add a penalty stroke for striking the ball more than once. If a player somehow strikes the ball three times in the course of a stroke, it still counts only as one stroke plus one penalty stroke.

So in this case the 2nd shot was made then a 3rd shot (double hit). Add a penalty stroke and you're now hitting 5.. correct?

[LobWedge]

Which case. Your's or TC's?

Your case: Lying 3. Hitting 4.

[AAA]

So in this case the 2nd shot was made then a 3rd shot (double hit). Add a penalty stroke and you're now hitting 5.. correct?

No. 2nd stroke made. Penalty for the 'double hit'. 3 strokes taken so far.

14-4
If a player’s club strikes the ball more than once in the course of a stroke, the player must count the stroke and add a penalty stroke, making two strokes in all.