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UNBELIEVABLE!! He gets in position and the famous Poulter shank appears on the 18th..........

On the contrary. We are told that there are ways of strategically allocating the strokes so that it's "better". I think this is nonsense, far from having entrenched views, I just think the strokes can go anywhere as it's completely random what happens day to day, player to player. I'm just...

That's a good point. But that does happen in strokeplay anyway if you're marking someone's card.

I do. We are having a discussion about the merits of reviewing the rules.

Duncan, The mistake I feel you are making is artificially constructing scenarios and then adding in the location of the shot holes to go alongside those scenarios. In order to say that shot allocation is "wrong" in a certain format, you have to say that " before 2 players start the match, if...

Try and keep up...

If you were in a strokeplay and they were just playing matchplay, and you were all playing together for the sake of everyone getting a tee time, definitely that would not be right. However if all of you were playing under medal conditions and they just kept a match score running alongside...

Someone's got to 😃

Right, that's a few hours window with one less chance of being spotted for an infraction.... 😉 Good luck 👍👍

What don't you like about him?

I agree that it wouldn't appeal to me, but if 2 guys both agreed under a local club rule, I wouldn't begrudge them.

What are you doing to change the downswing plane?

Well that's easy to write, but in reality, and in the age of trying to encourage more people to play, it wouldn't hurt anyone if the rules were looked at. Personally I probably wouldn't agree to combine both because I love the psychology of matchplay, but I wouldn't have a problem with the...

Played a practice round once, hit a 3 wood off the tee through a par 4 green into a load of cabbage and wrote "t shot, 4 iron" as a reminder in the yardage book. Wind changed for the tournament, hit a driver and a 7 iron short....

I got to paragraph 3...😀😀😀😀😀