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At the risk of affirming my membership of the pedant club, I think you mean post #22. I also think that precision is important in this...

Edit - you mean immovable obstruction. No embedded ball relief either.

Understandable for someone who seems to be really in love with the 1890s rules.

Nothing in the definition of advice constrains its applicability to the same playing group. On the contrary, 10.2a says that during a...

Yes. That's been permitted since 2019.

Complete relief or partial relief?

It is in relation to way too many amateur club golfers that I encounter on the course day-in-day-out.

In my opnion, the old term 'nearest point of relief' was not perfectly good. It failed to convey that partial relief was not...

It's past time to move on with the language. Hazard is now penalty area. Casual water is now temporary water. And relief is in an area...

Have another look on the app under Definitions....Boundary Object. First sentence. And see if that answers your question.

We had this discussion a few months ago. Let's not go back over old ground so soon...

Practise is indeed defined at 5.2: “Practising on the course” means playing a ball, or testing the surface of the putting green of any...

To recycle a previous answer I gave to a not dissimilar question: Many committees will stipulate who can and cannot be a marker for...

My understanding is that the decision is a matter for individual club committees. You won’t get a definitive answer here because of...

I think the key question here is not so much whether a ball is in play, but rather when is one of the two balls no longer in play, or...