rulie

What "committee" is being referred to here?

I suspect that "counting to 9" was just as facetious as "a six year old".

As explained earlier, "in accordance with the Rules" for a marker means Rule 3.3b(1) "Marker's Responsibility". Markers are not referees.

The Rules expect the players to act with integrity and are written that way. Thankfully, the vast majority of players do so. Yet the...

Hopefully that is not an example of your integrity. See Rule 1.2 😕

It would be in the handicapping Rules somewhere, but some common sense and logic can lead to the answer.

In the specific example being discussed, the lady is receiving the strokes and is playing from the red tees. She should be using the...

To me, it's pretty obvious, if the strokes are being received by the lady, and she's playing from the red tees, that is the stroke index...

Imo, the line in red (above) refers only to Rule 3.3b(1) of the Rules of Golf: "Marker's Responsibility: Entering and Certifying Hole...

As has been said many times in the past, a marker is not a referee. A marker is a score recorder, he asks the player what he scored and...

You must have misunderstood something? Imo, the definition of "marker" in the Rule book is clear that it is another person, ie, not the...

I think that every player has a relatively equal chance to win. It's more likely that a high(er) handicapper will win since there are...

Sorry, see it's already been posted as WHS - current GM article.

https://www.golfmonthly.com/features/why-the-world-handicap-system-has-ruined-golf-for-low-handicappers

Agree that the wording is difficult and it should be marked in some definite way - stakes, lines or other. Further confusion, if a...