Recent content by atticusfinch

Well, you just destroyed my reason for living. :cry:

Hopefully they will not cater to the "casual" golfer (who needs a rule change to "have more fun"), and leave it to clubs. Leave the ROG alone....preserve the integrity and traditions of the game to those who value them. I like to imagine I am playing against Ol' Tom Morris and Bobby Jones...

I'm having trouble imagining a greenskeeper telling the R&A he intends to break up the road by the 17th green at the old course so people can play on grass. :ROFLMAO:

Remember. No matter where you go, there you are. ;)

The big GONG.

Dog licence A colloquialism, originating in the UK, for the resounding matchplay winning margin of 7&6 (winning with six holes to spare). So called because a dog licence used to cost seven shillings and sixpence, seven and six, before decimalisation in 1971.

My bad. I was focused on an OOB penalty shot occuring in a teeing ground when the substitute is put into play with a stroke. I did not consider replay from the previous location which could be the fairway when the sub ball is in play at the drop. Apologies. (Still my main objection of the...

Forgive my pedantry....A "rub of the green" occurs when a ball in motion is accidentally deflected or stopped by any outside agency (see Rule 19-1). See here for an essay on its origins. http://www.ruleshistory.com/rub.html

The new LR reset is complete on dropping the ball. The way it is supposxed to be is reset is not complete till the ball has been put into play with a stroke.

Regardless of the sport if the ball ends up OOB you have to hit "reset" to return it to play. In golf that is S&D. You move the ball from OOB to the field to reset. In golf that is walking to the tee, in soccer it is tossing the ball back on the field. The new OOB LR does not use a reset to...

Are you saying the ROG don't prohibit playing it, property law does? If the OOB property is owned by the golf club you could play an OOB ball?

The ball in the WH is on the course. It can be played as iies or moved to a legislated lie according to the rule and then played. The other two are not permitted to be played as they lie and must be located in a playable lie through S&D. The new LR creates a legislated lie for them which...

I don't either, if all you consider is having hit the ball into an unplayable situation from which relief is necessary to keep playing. The rules provide different means to do it depending on which it is. As I have said, a drop is allowed from a WH because a drop approximates a stroke...

Social golfers have played by their versions of the new LR for decades. Hope fully GONGU will enforce the "real rules."

The difference is that one type of shot is allowed by the rules (even if impossible) and the other is not allowed (even if possible). The new LR will fundamentally change the 400 year old principle that a ball not on the course cannot be played ("played" includes taking relief) and you must...