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We have it for qualifying competitions, for other purposes they request that mats are also used in the light rough for course maintenance.

I can and frequently do use a Spurk mat with the lugs in the ground at different levels to enable to be placed on. There is nothing in that rule that states I should not..The lugs are not always in the ground anyway when for instance the f=ground is frozen or there are rocks under the surface...

The rule does not say you cannot place the mat to prevent the ball from rolling. As Ori suggests there is no actual advantage to doing this rather than finding a flatter place . If the law does not prevent you from doing so why should you not do it?

None, nor for most strokes. Occasionally for chipping/pitching when I want to check the ground reaction

Excellent I was wondering for a minute if it was the owner. :)

Very nice, who signed it?

I'm impressed that you can change a tyre, I've always used garages.

Who cares the R& A have openly embraced a handicapping system that rewards and encourages cheating and manipulation. Why stress over it when the high heid yins don't.

My original post was entirely tongue in cheek. However in support of SILH who as far as I can see is a big supporter of women's golf I think sometimes women golfers are judged on appearance as well as ability.. I think there is sometimes a fine line between admiring someone's appearance and...

One could of course use it to assist with dress codes. You can add strokes on for wearing ankle socks with shorts and not having a proper v neck or not wearing a tie in the club house.

Reading through the winter Olympics thread it seems to me that there is a line of thought that sports should not be judged and we should exclude jumping events ice dancing etc. Perhaps we have this the wrong way round and in golf and other sports after the round has finished the competitors...

Too much tomato

I think once you get up to 16 pars a round you should be ambitious and aim for 20.

Is three putt planning a poor strategy? For those whose strategy is avoiding three putts how careful are they about implementing the strategy. Do they deliberately miss greens so they can chip close?

Its not simply a matter of putts holed but it is partly a matter of putts holed. And there isn't a simple answer that is the same at all distances, on long putts you should be centering your distance around the hole but this is not true for short to medium length putts. No one hits the speed...