Recent content by Bruce Lynn 2

What is your course?

Interestingly the vote seems to roughly tally with the actual proportion of UK courses that are dog-friendly - http://doggolf.info/index.php/2017/09/20/the-most-dog-friendly-golfing-in-the-uk/. Most objections to dogs on the course stem from poor behaviour mostly, not picking up mess, not being...

Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but this thread comes up prominently when searching for dog golfing. Sad to see so many misconceptions about golfing with dogs expressed here. The danger to them being hit by a ball is no more than a human being hit by a ball (and that is pretty low with any...

Just to be clear, "moving the ball" is an "outside agency" (which was really just a curious, fun and speculative scenario), but "finding the ball" is not affected by "outside agency", correct?

There do not appear to be any rules against assistance in searching for the ball. There is nothing that I can see that prohibits competitors or spectators from assisting in the ball finding. I think the dog could classify as a "spectator" (tagging along), or could classify as part of your...

Sorry DCB. I wasn't familiar with the outside agency rule in detail until Patrick prompted me to refer to it.

I save the penalty strokes because the dogs find the balls within the 5 minute rule many of which are playable (as opposed to having to take a drop). Yes, you are right, I guess the outside agency rule would key thing here.

We take our dogs golfing with us. For starters, we never lose any balls in the rough any more (win). Not just a saving on ball costs, but also countless penalty strokes. Which got me thinking...if I trained my dog to kick the ball out of the rough, what are the rules on that? Just curious.