mikejohnchapman
Challenge Tour Pro
Like many courses this time of year our course is very wet and uses stakes/rope to protect the surrounds to greens. As a result there are several areas on the course that have been churned up by trolleys and are now very muddy.
Yesterday in our winter matchplay competition both of our balls ended up in one such area. It wasn't casual water but the balls were in horrible lies. My opponent wanted to drop them off the damaged area but as they weren't plugged I didn't see how we could so I said we had to play them as we lay. He wasn't happy.
He was trying to convince me they were in abnormal ground conditions but I wasn't sure - was he correct?
Yesterday in our winter matchplay competition both of our balls ended up in one such area. It wasn't casual water but the balls were in horrible lies. My opponent wanted to drop them off the damaged area but as they weren't plugged I didn't see how we could so I said we had to play them as we lay. He wasn't happy.
He was trying to convince me they were in abnormal ground conditions but I wasn't sure - was he correct?