Are rules of Golf - you without breaking the rules to the Green?

The rules of Golf are there to protect the integrity of the game. When you play not by them, you play another game.
Many golfers break the rules because they have never learned of them. Others ignore them because they consider certain rules to be stupid. However, if you play in an official competition you have a duty to the field rules and penalize yourself for any offence.
There are 34 rules and a multitude of decisions that cover all aspects of the game. Around the Green, there times when you could incur a needless penalty for a moment of inattention.
Opportunity 1
You touch your approach shot to the Green and mark your ball to clean. You replace your ball by using a line on it to guide it in the desired direction. Search you your marker and step back to verify that the line is pointing towards your target. Not convinced you rotate the ball without the first line replace your marker. YOU have broken just a rule.
Rule 18-2 expressly provides that when your ball is in play, if you lift, move or deliberately touch without first marking, you incur a sentence of a single line.
Opportunity 2
Your ball is just next to the green and you want to putté rather than smart it as fringe is closely mown. You notice that your ball left a pitch mark in the fringe inch or so from your ball that could interfere with its roll. Carefully set the pitch mark and tap into the grass with your putter. YOU have broken just a rule.
Rule 13-2 expressly provides that you are not permitted to improve your game line unless your ball is on the Green and you are repairing a pitch mark or an old Plug-and-hole. Because your ball or mark pitch was on the Green, you incur a penalty of two strokes.
However, the rule 16-1 c, you can repair a pitch mark or an old hole plug on green regardless of whether your ball is actually on the green.
If you intend to break the rules or do so without knowing it makes no difference. If you do not correct your score and you sign an incorrect dashboard the ultimate sanction is disqualification.
Many rules unnoticed because neither the player nor the marker is known. However, if you are a marker or a fellow competitor and see an offence, you have the obligation of the other players in the competition to call the penalty. In the event of a disagreement, you can refuse to sign the card as a marker. It is the Commission of the competition to decide the outcome.
Penalize others for violations of rules can lead to annoyance. However, calling a penalty on yourself when you break a rule should be a matter of honor.
To break the rules of Golf is understandable - it is part of the process of their learning. However, for breaking the same rule is pure negligence.

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