I was playing straight pool with my friend last night. The cue ball was stuck in the middle of a cluster with a real tight shot going over a couple balls. My friend tried to bridge over the balls but couldn't quite reach, so he gripped his cue like a backward spear, and cue-butt first hits down on the cue ball and made the shot. He looked at me and said he bets I'd never seen that shot before. Was that legal? BTW, he went on to run a dozen balls, so it was particularly annoying.
Butt first shot
- Thread starter slach
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Foul, not legal. A cueball hit with any part of the cue other than the tip is a foul.slach said:
supergreenman is absolutely correct. World rules specify that the CB must be struck with the cue tip...not the ferrule, shaft, or butt.
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
supergreenman said:
Good reason to attach a tip to the butt. :wink: