Golf rules we let people break - what is one you know of?

[Steven Rules]

I've arrived late to this thread. It might appropriately sit on the Rules of Golf and Handicapping thread.

A few years back I wrote a little article for our club newsletter about the most commonly breached Rules at our club. They were:

*Advice

*Not correctly announcing a provisional ball

*Not marking a ball before touching or lifting it to identify it

*Dropping in a wrong place - through not determining the correct reference point and/or relief area

*Improving the conditions affecting the stroke - in this case through brushing away sand and loose soil in the general area

*Not seeking the other player's permission before marking their ball - my old soapbox favourite

FYI Known and Virtually Certainty in penalty areas is not necessarily a big problem at our club given its configuration and geography.

 

[Orikoru]

Given that the R&A do review the rules occasionally, surely it's time to scrap the advice rule altogether?* Asking someone what club they hit is completely useless anyway, recognising that one man's 7 iron might be 34° while another's is 26°. And the fact that all of us hit different distances anyway. It's little more than a point of curiosity rather than anything that can help you make a decision. AND you can just look in their bag and see which one is missing anyway. Really the most pointless rule of all.

*or at least modify it so it only covers actual advice like reading a green for somebody and so on.

 

[Swango1980]

I've arrived late to this thread. It might appropriately sit on the Rules of Golf and Handicapping thread.

A few years back I wrote a little article for our club newsletter about the most commonly breached Rules at our club. They were:

*Advice

*Not correctly announcing a provisional ball

*Not marking a ball before touching or lifting it to identify it

*Dropping in a wrong place - through not determining the correct reference point and/or relief area

*Improving the conditions affecting the stroke - in this case through brushing away sand and loose soil in the general area

*Not seeking the other player's permission before marking their ball - my old soapbox favourite

FYI Known and Virtually Certainty in penalty areas is not necessarily a big problem at our club given its configuration and geography.

No penalty areas?

Like a member of Horncastle (when it existed) saying golfers smoothing the sand before a bunker shot is not a big problem. All their bunkers were grass bunkers