Recent content by Alan Clifford

The original post said 7 albatrosses on par 5's.

They probably think it is good management. Why employ more staff when you can even out the peaks into the troughs by making the passengers wait.

I thought Celine Dion was great.

It's rather like training the army to kill people then objecting to them killing people.

Speed golf?

Going off completely at a tangent, when the Commonwealth games were in Manchester, they had kayaking on the Irwell. Made me shudder, literally. When I were a lad, we told ourselves that if you fell fell in the Irwell, you'd die! In fact, I did a paper at university about the confluence of the...

The Europeans have bigger holes than us - it's in the definitions, "The hole must be 4 ¼ inches (108 mm) in diameter". They get 0.05 of a millimetre more than us.

Since an inch has been defined in millimetres since July, 1959, make that 152.4 mm.

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Perhaps if you are virtual certain a club is a yard / metre in length.

So, going back to the first post, it seems that there doesn't need to be two yards of flat grass behind the tee markers if the permanent markers are in such a position as to allow such a situation.

Oh OK. Is this area, which is not the teeing area, defined in any way in the rules, such as big flat area or mown grass? I couldn't find any definitions.

I've lost it completely now.

I still don't understand it. That means the the teeing area can't actually be anywhere near the permanent markers!

I'm trying to get my head around that. A teeing area ( https://www.randa.org/rog/the-rules-of-golf/rule-6#6_2b ) is the rectangle two club lengths in depth behind the tee markers. I struggle to follow that a permanent marker should not be less than 4 yards from the back of the rectangle as...