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I have a distant but possibly erroneous memory that preferred lies were in place for a round of an Open Championship one year because of heavy rains. Can anyone confirm either that I'm right or have an overly fanciful historical imagination?

Tired of defining boundaries? Fed up wakening up with night sweats after dreaming of someone about to drive a white stake through your heart? Had enough of blazered dinosaurs telling you how it is? Then read on. Familiar with the common (and R&A endorsed) count back method of resolving ties...

I have previously checked that our competition software (ClubV1) handles mixed tee net scoring and order of merit correctly but today was looking to see that would also produce a correct order of merit of gross scores, that is, with the gross scores correctly adjusted for play from different...

A historical rules question and a handicapping one. 1. Was there a time when you got a penalty if your ball hit another player's equipment in stroke play? 2. Does anyone know when the CDH started?

Can anyone think of a competition format which, in handicapping terms, cannot be played from mixed tees? I don't mean one that is difficult to manage, inadvisable, never actually done etc, just that it is technically not possible to arrive at the handicap allocations for the format. Your...

I'm breaking my radio silence for a moment! https://www.golf-monthly.co.uk/news/tour-news/haotong-li-penalty-172899?utm_campaign=20190128_XGM-X_NWL_TW_titleist&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ETElliott You would be as well to read Rule 10b.2(4) before reading this article: (4) Restriction on...

I'll be holding back from contributing forum much for a while to concentrate on what is proving to be a much greater task of studying the new rules than I anticipated. Maybe that's a matter of age! With a requirement by Scottish Golf to attend a rules course in March in order to revalidate...

Bounce game yesterday and so I was trying out putting with the flagstick in. Hit a 3 footer and had the bonus of applying the associated new rule when my ball wedged against the flagstick. Holed. The way to go? Well, whether with flagstick in or out, holing all the 3 footers would be a...

Here are some questions for you resulting from a momentary lapse of concentration this morning in our seniors roll-up (we do have to justify the title, you know). In a stroke play game, A and B play towards a green and land in the area short of the main green where there is a temporary green...

Has anyone found the facility to download the various videos the R&A/USGA have produced on the rules changes? I've been getting some from YouTube but as a result I've downloaded one on the Alternative to Stroke and Distance LR which shows the relief area wrongly. It's presumably an out of...

Starting a new thread to answer this. You will be required to determine the nearest point of complete relief for the club, stance and swing you'd have used. You don't have to simulate your stance etc it but it's recommended that you do. The relief area is a club length from that point. A...

The number of posts about the new rules is inevtiably increasing and I'd like to suggest that instead of raising matters under a generic heading like Rules 2019, we start new threads as questions/comments come up on particular topics and entitle them accordingly - Penalty Areas, Ball Moved on...

I've just finished scoring for a "Silloth" handicapped event at my club and, out of curiosity, wonder if anyone can explain the mathematical justification for it. For those who don't know it, it is a system for handicapping pairs in a better ball stroke competition. Subtract the difference...

Does anyone know how to delete an Initial Handicap entry in Clubv1? For some reason a new member's record has been started with an initial handicap allotment and I need to remove it. There doesn't seem to be a delete function for it and I can't find anything in the Manual to help.

I've encountered a perception that it is adantageous for a high handicapper to partner a low handicapper in foursomes. Does anyone know any statistics/studies which deal with that? I'm looking for facts, not more perceptions!

Can anyone quickly tell me roughly (or accurately!) how many clubs are afilliated with CONGU?

I'm trying to understand the nett differentials showing up in the Clubv1 record of 9 hole stablefords and would appreciate the help of anyone familiar with the system. For example, the nett differential of a player who scores 20 points over the 9 holes is shown as 15 when you would expect it to...

Can anyone give me a reference to where I find the authority to deem two contiguous immovable obstructions to be a single obstruction. I know I can do it, but I can't find the source.

That's the first time the Commissioner of the Met has been a Dick without one.

All the best to everyone and great golfing in 2017. :cheers: