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[MashieNiblick]

Don't make the mistake of thinking that the quality of player's golf necessarily has any correlation with his knowledge of the rules.

You're not wrong there.

 

[Foxholer]

the 2 club lengths rule is a strict 2 clubs - not 2 clubs from nearest point of relief is it not?

last comp we played one player hacked into the base of a tree and i said 2 clubs but the other player said nearest point of relief and 2 clubs. i acquiesced i suppose because:

a. the guy had one point after 4 holes so wasn't going to be toubling the leaderboard and had duffed it to the point behind the tree so was blobbing the hole ultimately in all likelihood (he did)
b. the chap giving the ruling manages the scratch team so i assumed he knew something i didn't, and even though i was pretty sure he was wrong i wasn't going to get into a rules argument over a blob

but isnt' it strange that people having played a long time are wrong about even the most straightforward of rules? (unless he was right and I'm the clueless one)

Another of the 'benefits' of Stableford!

It only cost him a blob - which he achieved all by himself anyway.

In Strokeplay, he would have been DQ-ed if he didn't check and give himself another 2 shot penalty! DQ also in Stableford though if he'd scraped a point from the situation and signed for that score.

 

[Colin L]

You're not wrong there.

As if I ever had him in mind.

Unfortunately there is no reverse correlation either. As I will shortly be demonstrating in today's bounce game, a player's knowledge of the rules is not necessarily an indicator of the quality of his play.