Closely-mown area

[Hendo007]

Means any area of the course including paths through the rough, cut to fairway height or less

- Does this really just meant he fairway or does it cover semi rough ?

Trying to understand when its ok to lift clean and drop an embedded ball if someone can do it in Laymans terms.

 

[pbrown7582]

closely mown to me means fairway tee or green, whereas "through the green" is a different matter and includes semi rough etc

 

[Colin L]

Closely mown means just what it says - think of the shortest cut of a fairway and that's it. If grass paths are cut to the same, then they are closely mown areas as well. Definitely not semi-rough.

 

[Hendo007]

Cheers

 

[Iaing]

It's worth checking the local rules. There's often a local rule in place that states "through the green" which is the whole course apart from hazards.
If there's no local rule then it's "closely mown area through the green" as per the rules of golf.

 

[Colin L]

It's worth checking the local rules. There's often a local rule in place that states "through the green" which is the whole course apart from hazards.
If there's no local rule then it's "closely mown area through the green" as per the rules of golf.

Yes, but the local rule should be in place only as a temporary measure in adverse conditions.

 

[CMAC]

Like the whole summer of extraordinary rain levels! Courses just aren't drying out and it's so unfair to be plugged 5 feet off a green but in the rough!

 

[Colin L]

No fewer than 27 courses in the Lothians got permission for a temporary period of preferred lies .....in July! My own being one of them also temporarily allowed for an embedded ball through the green.

 

[CMAC]

No fewer than 27 courses in the Lothians got permission for a temporary period of preferred lies .....in July! My own being one of them also temporarily allowed for an embedded ball through the green.

good, some common sense