Golf Rules: Chip-In & Pin Removal - No Penalty?

Question
Player chipped onto the green; went up and marked her ball and pulled the pin out.  Next player was on the fringe of the green and putted her ball into the hole for a chip-in.  Another player said that the one who made the chip-in lost a stroke because she did not ask the person to remove the pin.  My question, should anyone be assessed a stroke?

Answer
Absolutely not.  There is no penalty and there are not any rules to say what is not a penalty, like it is not a penalty to eat a peanut butter sandwich while golfing etc, otherwise the rulebook would be a foot thick,  but you will not find anywhere in the rule book that this is a penalty.

Anytime someone "shoots from the hip" with rules,  ask,  "can you show me that in the rule book?"

And you should have a rule book too,  everyone should,  the rules are there to help you.  look at the last question I had regarding the rules, it also dealt with not having a rule book.

Have a great day, keep the game fun and check out my website,

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Kim