Rule help please | Golf Monthly

If something on the Green can be moved - or repaired - it doesn't matter where the player/player's ball is.

Twigs, leaves and sticks that are on the Green (or elsewhere), for example can be moved - as they are loose impediments. and pitch marks can be repaired.

Worth remembering that sand and loose soil are only loose impediments when it/they are on the Green, so can't be moved if they are on the fringe - but can from on the Green. Rory blundered into a 2 shot Penalty for that a while ago!