If your club has applied the EG recommended Local Rule the answer is no.
Model Local Rule E-12 "When a player’s ball lies in a part of the general area cut to fairway height or less and a putter is not being used for the stroke, .......
You have the answer. But why, if the ground is regular enough to warrant using your putter, why would you want to play from a mat?
Because the use of mats is mandatory anywhere on the course, except once the fairway flags go in then anywhere between those flags on each hole.. Thats is why I'm asking, not because I wouldn't putt from off the green through the winter but that fairway mats is mandatory and failure to use them leads to suspension of playing rights.
"... fairway mats which is mandatory"
I'm sorry, in my head I understood it but I seemed to have created some misunderstanding of my question.
It’s still the same answer.I'm sorry, in my head I understood it but I seemed to have created some misunderstanding of my question.
So...we have to now use fairway mats which is mandatory and failure to use a fairway mat could lead to suspension of playing rights.
As I often putt from off the green, often from the immediate fringe and sometimes next cut, my question was can I play this shot from the matt (I am not on the putting surface) like I would if I were using an iron, or do I play it on the grass. The area in question would be covered by the mat use stipulation ie in the marked area.
I want to be clear of my actions.
Being a bit pedantic possibly, but under the Equipment Conformance of Clubs rules, by definition, the loft of a putter cannot be greater than 10 degrees. So he can’t declare it as a putter, although of course he could “putt” with it.
