Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
He may even have just obtained the h/c recently after a string of successes
But where I am coming from is "how?"
If he is a member of a club, somebody (somebody) must have been marking his cards to hand in for handicap purposes. Not being funny, you can't mark them yourself to hand in can you?
So the guy himself knows nothing about the rulings regarding water hazards, but we're to assume that neither do any other players who have ever been out on the course with him.
OK some assumptions here, but I doubt very much whether all his play has been "singles"...with one other guy.
I assume that in amongst those qualifiers he has played in a fourball.
Now one guy in a fourball not knowing such a basic rule as "lateral hazards are a penalty" I can maybe understand. At a push two. But all four????
And to be fair, this playeer wasn't a youngster who had just started playing (not that age has anything to do with not knowing the rules)...he was a middle aged guy who according to him "had been playing for quite a number of years"
That's what prompted the question
I hope this is making sense?
Rob