rulefan
Tour Winner
Are you informed of the detailed position of stakes when you play an 'away' course?
Are you informed as trees or bushes grow bigger or when a large bough breaks off.
Play the course as you find it.
Change of position of out-of-bounds stake?
- Thread starter delc
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Are you informed as trees or bushes grow bigger or when a large bough breaks off.
Play the course as you find it.
Old Skier
Tour Winner
Agreed however I thought it was a move of the OOB on a home course.
rulefan
Tour Winner
It is but what is the difference between players from another club playing in a match against players in the home club.
The away players don't know where the stakes are if they can't see them?
Normally the home team will point out any OOB's or other places where you don't want to go!
North Mimms
Tour Winner
Although no longer a member at del's club, I can visualise roughly where he means.
Most of us play up the right hand side as the left is "here be dragons /bunkers/nasty rough"
If the bush is the one I am thinking of, it's a popular landing area for errant shots. I'd be peeved to discover it to be new OOB..
Did they give warning when they moved the OOB to fairway side of hedge a few years ago? (the hedge on right that is reachable from tee)
Most of us play up the right hand side as the left is "here be dragons /bunkers/nasty rough"
If the bush is the one I am thinking of, it's a popular landing area for errant shots. I'd be peeved to discover it to be new OOB..
Did they give warning when they moved the OOB to fairway side of hedge a few years ago? (the hedge on right that is reachable from tee)
No, I don't believe they did! Apparently that was done to protect a green keeper's compound behind the bushes. I can't see any good reason for the new OOB, unless it's to protect the bush/hedge there!
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D
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No, I don't believe they did! Apparently that was to protect a green keeper's compound behind the bushes. I can't see any good reason for the new OOB, unless it's to protect the bush/hedge there!
Have you still not asked ?
Three
Tour Rookie
You're obviously being stupid for the sake of it.
The question is about green keepers moving a long-established OB marker.
Try addressing the question instead of trying to find something to be a smart-ass about.
No, because I am away at my gliding club for the weekend. I will ask about it next week.
Fyldewhite
Tour Winner
Thing this is a bit OTT to be honest. I think Rulefan is merely pointing out that such information is usually "as you find it" and not pointed out by the committee. I do take the point that if a long established OOB was moved then a committee would most probably inform the members......saves answering the same question 400 times for starters. However, if they didn't then then as I said earlier there would be no recourse so just get on with it.
D
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Thats very much OTT and extremely confortational - throwing insults at people isnt what we do on here
chrisd
Major Champion
Rulefan is highly regarded on the forum and I think that if you really are a pro golfer, as you claimed, then what you've written is a disgrace to you and your profession!
I had said that I did play the course as I found it, so wasn't Rulefan's comment rather unnecessary?
chrisd
Major Champion
I believe he was adding a valid point but, IMO It doesn't give someone the right to be obnoxious to him.
rulefan
Tour Winner
I had said that I did play the course as I found it, so wasn't Rulefan's comment rather unnecessary?
del
The post was for general consumption, not aimed at you specifically. Your question was valid and had already got a number of supportive comments in a pretty long thread for something apparently simple.
I was only pointing out that in some circumstances not all players know the details of the course anyway. Home players are advantaged (I'm not suggesting unfairly) in matches.
But if it is the Saturday medal, virtually all players would have to contend with the changed circumstances. This would equally apply to eg casual water that accumulated during the middle of the comp, mole hills that appeared during the night.
Three
Tour Rookie
How can you equate moving the known position of an OB border to natural occurrences such as casual water and molehills, both of which attract a free drop?
rulefan
Tour Winner
Not trying to equate them. However, a free drop doesn't always give you the result you would have had if the condition had not been there.
What I was actually asking was who has the right to change OOB boundaries, e.g. the Committee, Club Manager, Secretary, or Head Greenkeeper, and should any changes be promulgated to the club members? Don't think I have got direct answers to these questions as yet
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Three
Tour Rookie
Well we can only read what's written, and you wrote "This would equally apply ",so it's fair to assume you are equating them.
D
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Will all depend on the club
Could be any of those and the only way to find out is to ask at the club
Unless there is a rule written down that any changes should be posted etc then the answer is no
