Are you going to pick and place???

[tadhgryan]

When the rules allow, are you going to pick and place your ball? I found last year that when we changed back when summer hit, the ball felt like it was sitting down. Seen as I cant get cut anyway, iv decided not to enter comps and just practice as it lies. Whats your opinion???

 

[Imurg]

When the rules allow, are you going to pick and place your ball?

If it's got a lump of mud on it the size of Wales or anything else that might hinder the shot - Damn right I am!

 

[tadhgryan]

thats not very big then do you find your lie any different in the summer though?

 

[louise_a]

unless its in a divot i will play it has it lies

 

[Birchy]

If the ball is looking clean and nothing dodgy about the lie i just play it. I cant be arsed cleaning and placing it all the time like some people do just for sake of it.

 

[One Planer]

In this case, I'll use the rules to my advantage. If I can pick and place, I will.

 

[SocketRocket]

In the Summer you dont tend to have lumps of mud attached to the ball. It's in the rules, so why not do it? Beats me!

 

[duncan mackie]

When the rules allow, are you going to pick and place your ball? I found last year that when we changed back when summer hit, the ball felt like it was sitting down. Seen as I cant get cut anyway, iv decided not to enter comps and just practice as it lies. Whats your opinion???

part of the intention behind the 'place' element in this country is that the grass won't grow for many months so if you can 'tee it up' and minimise divots you will have better fairways in the spring.....

I realise this won't make a blind bit of difference to many, but for some it can mean they hardly cut any turf in a round.

Your choice - I suspect you wouldn't be too happy being required to carry a mat round with you though, or have the course closed for months.....

I agree that it encourages poor habits that have to be shrugged off in spring, not least the psycollogy of playing any shot from a less than perfect lie (this is also a reason to practice the short game by first tapping the ball down, not nudging it to a good lie). A small price IMO.

 

[Gazboy]

If the local/winter rules request us to then sure, the ground staff do a cracking job all year so it's only fair to heed their requests.

 

[Andy808]

Hell yeah! If the rules allow then why not?
Why would you want to hit the ball out of a tufty bit of fairway when your opponents are lifting and placing on a nice grassy "tee" then so be it but I'm going to do the same and have far more chance of clean shot.

 

[bluewolf]

Better to do as is requested and "pick and place", than to be forced to use fairway mats which are vile, hateful things that should be melted and used to line the nappies of incontinent criminals....

 

[CliveW]

Better to do as is requested and "pick and place", than to be forced to use fairway mats which are vile, hateful things that should be melted and used to line the nappies of incontinent criminals....

At Blairgowrie and various other courses around here, (Including St Andrews) we are on winter mats on the fairways throughout the winter, or play from the first cut of rough. I must say I don't mind mats at all as you can really hit down on the ball and get some great backspin.

 

[Idlenorth1]

Winter rules at my course have just been posted and it states "pick and place in all mown areas"
I have always worked that pick and place for winter is fairways only and only tend to use if my ball is covered in mud,
A lot of people have taken this as semi rough as well which I find wrong
What the general opinion on here and is this in place elsewhere?

 

[Fish]

Not in play until November 1st at KGC and after reading Duncans post I will apply the pick & place as I'm a keen adversery of looking after mine and other courses I play.

 

[One Planer]

Better to do as is requested and "pick and place", than to be forced to use fairway mats which are vile, hateful things that should be melted and used to line the nappies of incontinent criminals....

We use winter fairway mats at my course.

Hateful things but, i suppose, they serve a purpose.

 

[Fader]

As sson as we hit winter rules, whether the ball is sproting mud of nicely laying on the turf, I'll clean, wipe and place. It becomes habit in winter and i'm all for every advantage I can get why not always play from the best lie you can when allowed to.

 

[MashieNiblick]

We generally play WRs from Nov to March but as our course is pretty wet at present we have started earlier than usual and it makes sense to pick and place just to clean the ball as much as to get a better lie.

As the new season approaches and the course dries out in the spring however I try to play the ball as it lies as much as I can just to make sure I am used to it by the time WRs end.

 

[duncan mackie]

Winter rules at my course have just been posted and it states "pick and place in all mown areas"
I have always worked that pick and place for winter is fairways only .........

fairway isn't a definition in the rules of golf, and the recommended LR includes the wording 'closely mown', and closely mown is considered fairway height or less ie including fringes, aprons etc (see 25-2) First cut (semi etc) is by this definition not closely mown.


Have I mentioned before that committees should use the recommended (specimen) LRs?

 

[patricks148]

At Blairgowrie and various other courses around here, (Including St Andrews) we are on winter mats on the fairways throughout the winter, or play from the first cut of rough. I must say I don't mind mats at all as you can really hit down on the ball and get some great backspin.

We go to winter course next week, we used to have mats on the fairway or drop in the first cut. However there has been talk that the damage to the first cut was so great last year that this winter its mats all around.

 

[Birchy]

We use winter fairway mats at my course.

Hateful things but, i suppose, they serve a purpose.

Same here. To be honest though after a couple of rounds im used to them and they dont bother me that much. I love seeing how frustrated other people get with them though, seen people stamping on theirs and allsorts :rofl: