Recent content by Colin L

Your players must make extraordinarily odd shaped divots.

Agreed as said, the lining, damaged or undamaged is an immovable obstruction. The Local Rule referred to makes the lining integral if in its intended position which means any bits of out of position remain immovable obstructions from which relief can be taken.

Perhaps you meant a penalty area or an abnormal course condition where the standard of virtual certainty is relevant rather than out of bounds where it isn't. If you know your ball is out of bounds, you have to play from where you played your previous stroke; if you think it's out of bounds...

That's interesting. Does turf heal throughout the winter in the south?

If your guys saw the excellent condition my own course is in right now with mandatory mats throughout the winter, they might jalouse that there is no need for a trial to find out what is already well established! We are even encouraged to use them throughout the general area in social golf which...

Since the sole purpose of using fairway mats is to protect the course so that you start the new season with it in good divot hole free condition, I don't get the idea of using them only in social golf. Why only reduce damage when you can eliminate it? By the way, what is. there in shortening...

The main and important difference is that that one method applies the same calculation to every player, the other is down to the whim of the individual player. whims..

There must be a strange way of counting Stableford points in Australia. How does a player who has been unable to secure even one nett bogey in his round get any points, never mind 45 ? I think you must be misunderstanding something.

To my mind, the single reason for the change is consistency. if you were required to mark you ball before taking this kind of relief, it would be at the odds with the general rule that you must mark the position of your ball only if it is to be replaced but no such requirement when placing or...

You were right that you could lift the ball out of the hole; you can decide your ball is unplayable for any reason anywhere on the course except in a penalty area. It costs you a one stroke penalty and you have three choices: dropping a ball within two club lengths of where your ball lies, not...

Your remind me of a refereeing job some a few years ago when on day 2 it rained extremely heavily (I discovered that day that knowing the Rules doesn't qualify you as a squeegee manager) On Day 3 we had preferred lies. I was called over by a mystified French player at one point to explain...

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them, I've got others." Groucho Marx

I've always reckoned I am more likely to make an error on the simple ones where you just trot out the answer than the difficult ones which cause you to pause, think, maybe look up the rules, maybe consult with a colleague.

I wonder what the referee was explaining. Why did it seem to need more than to hear what happened, say "Ok, that's a one stroke penalty and replace your ball " and step back to watch the player get on with it?

I would always expect a singles match to be much quicker than a 3 ball stroke play competition group. On the matter of precedence, even where there is no special status given to a competition match, I'd suggest that the match should, if it goes to the 19th, have precedence over a group waiting...