Recent content by Colin L

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...

You're welcome. Another possibility is 4.1b(2) - borrowing a club. Neither that or 10.2 is, of course, unique to the situation of two matches playing alongside each other and I can't think of anything that would be.

The only Rule I can think of that could be broken is 10.2 by asking for advice from a player in the other match. There is also Clarification 10.2a/2: you would need to stop a player in the other match from giving you advice.

You can be required to submit your score both on a physical card and by electronic means but only one method can be the way in which you must return your score for the competition. The Committee has to specify how a score is to be returned - on a physical card or an electronic one. Whichever...

And also on the hard cards of Scottish Golf, England Golf, Golf Ireland, the European Golf Association, Golf Australia, the R&A and the USGA.... maybe more!

Indeed it should . I'd put money (but not a lot, being a Scot) on the MLR making its way into the 2027 Rules.

The question is, of course, whether the offence of forgetting to sign is so egregious that it merits a DQ. The MLR doesn't exonerate the player but gives us the opportunity to say that a moment's carelessness isn't that bad and that a 2 stroke penalty is enough. Which is presumably the opinion...