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Read this months GM mag and noticed a course guide Royal St Georges Open Stroke saver.

Pages 101, 103, 104.

Thy show the hole layout from a strokesaver. Now all seems well and good till I noticed something...


It has a compass on each hole layout which I always thought was against the rules... :D

Anyone know any different??
 
Read this months GM mag and noticed a course guide Royal St Georges Open Stroke saver.

Pages 101, 103, 104.

Thy show the hole layout from a strokesaver. Now all seems well and good till I noticed something...


It has a compass on each hole layout which I always thought was against the rules... :D

Anyone know any different??
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I meant to post the same question! Noticed it after reading more about GPS apps on iphones etc.....
 
Doesn't matter if it's a working compass or not, it shows the geographical direction of the hole which allows someone to know what direction the wind is from?????

Not that I actually think anyone with a compass has any advantage but for a strokesaver to show a compass on it completely goes against the rules...????
 
Use of a real compass contravenes Rule 14-3.

A picture on a scoresaver is just that.... a picture. It is not a working compass.
 
Whether it's a picture or an actual compass the both give you the same information. So how can one be legal and the other not??
 
'cause the picture cant give you an actual reading of the wind direction or the actual reading in line with the flag can it ?

:D :D
 
I'm going to be a real devils advocate here...

What's stopping me buying a Stoke saver, walking the course an hour before my match, compass in hand, marking on my strokesaver the geographical location of the holes????

(again I'm not that sad, nor contemplating doing it, just investigating the rules...)
 
I'll do the same then...

If I put a picture of a driver into your bag and you have the maximum 14 clubs there already, are you then breaking the max club rule ?

:D
 
'cause the picture cant give you an actual reading of the wind direction or the actual reading in line with the flag can it ?

:D :D
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I have to disagree. Looking down on a compass gives you a reference to work it out. As will looking down straight onto a compass on a strokesaver (as long as you line it up with the hole properly.)
 
I'll do the same then...

If I put a picture of a driver into your bag and you have the maximum 14 clubs there already, are you then breaking the max club rule ?

:D
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:D

Love your comeback!! :)

Not quite the same but good effort!
 
Don't forget the needle on a compass will be pointing in the same direction as the pointer on the strokesaver. So they become identical in information they provide.
 
This is what you do.
1) Find out from the weather forcast that the wind direction is from the west.
2) On the first tee the wind is directly behind.
3) North is therefore 90 degrees to the right (facing down the fairway).
4) Allow for magnetic declination.
5) Now swing the big stick and watch it gently fade OOB.

Simples
 
Am I missing something. Does knowing the actual direction of the wind really make any difference. If I'm standing on a hole and I chuck up a bit of grass and it goes left, I know the wind is right to left. What in god's names difference does it matter if I know that left is geographically south? All I need to know is right to left is right to left, a picture of a compass on a scorecard isn't going to change that.
 
Am I missing something. Does knowing the actual direction of the wind really make any difference. If I'm standing on a hole and I chuck up a bit of grass and it goes left, I know the wind is right to left. What in god's names difference does it matter if I know that left is geographically south? All I need to know is right to left is right to left, a picture of a compass on a scorecard isn't going to change that.
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Trouble is you usually chuck it up when everyone is down wind and we're all chewing like demented cows for five minutes :mad:
 
Am I missing something. Does knowing the actual direction of the wind really make any difference. If I'm standing on a hole and I chuck up a bit of grass and it goes left, I know the wind is right to left. What in god's names difference does it matter if I know that left is geographically south? All I need to know is right to left is right to left, a picture of a compass on a scorecard isn't going to change that.
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Where is the excitement in that?

I want an illicit compass app built into my boxers, so I can cheat on the quiet, with no one any the wiser.
 
Don't know if I'm sounding bad here... :(

I'm just trying to say if a compass is banned then so should a strokesaver with a compass printed on it. They give the same info in my opinion.


So I suppose I'm thinking why is a compass banned???

I couldn't make one be useful to me... No intention to use one either. Pointless topic maybe??
 
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