How does your course mark OOB?

[Slab]

Reading the thread in the rules area got me thinking of how exact the measure is to determine if a ball is OOB or not

Although on the courses I've played there has never been an OOB area defined well enough to apply this kind of accuracy
Its either white posts well spaced (or at best a fence of some kind) so that for the most part you need to draw an invisible line in your mind between two posts perhaps 30+ yards apart and determine if your ball is OOB or not

How does your course mark it & how good are you at the skill of accurately painting imaginary lines?

With no ground line and spaced posts have you ever decided that your ball lies 1or2 centimeters OOB?

 

[Fish]

We only have the boundary to our course as OOB so they are white posts spaced about 10 yards, which is OK, thankfully we have no internal OOB to worry about.

Problems I see at courses I visit is when they don't use enough posts, especially when a OOB bends or goes around corners, I think having a white line everywhere for OOB would be a maintenance nightmare, I'd rather we as players used our common sense collectively and let the greenkeepers concentrate on the greens, fairways and the upkeep of the main course.

 

[backwoodsman]

Reading the thread in the rules area got me thinking of how exact the measure is to determine if a ball is OOB or not

Although on the courses I've played there has never been an OOB area defined well enough to apply this kind of accuracy
Its either white posts well spaced (or at best a fence of some kind) so that for the most part you need to draw an invisible line in your mind between two posts perhaps 30+ yards apart and determine if your ball is OOB or not

How does your course mark it & how good are you at the skill of accurately painting imaginary lines?

With no ground line and spaced posts have you ever decided that your ball lies 1or2 centimeters OOB?

We do it by white posts in some places, but mostly it's "the boundaries of the course" which are fences of varying kind. We don't use white lines.

Where it's posts, (eg the putting green & surrounds) they are reasonably close together - about 5yds - so l guess it's not too difficult to gauge whether all the ball is over the "line". Some of the fences are more tricky as some have gap at the bottom and you can't get yourself into a position at the correct angle to see whether all the ball has completely crossed the line. But to be honest, in the 6 years or so that I've been a member, l don't recall seeing, or being involved with, an instance where there's been any doubt.

 

[Deleted member 15717]

only 2 small internal OOB, so nothing to worry about, marked with white posts and cars (car park!). One in play off 6th tee and you have to hit it so far left it doesn't bear thinking about. The other is long and left of the 18th green. Boundary fence is a long way off track, so doing well to go over that too.

 

[Capella]

White posts spaced about ten yards. For bigger comps, the greenkeepers also sometimes spray white lines where it could be unclear. Also some natural borders like a fence or public footpath are declared oob lines. There is only one hole, the 17th, where the oob line zigzags a bit awkwardly through a group of trees where there can be a bit of confusion.

 

[patricks148]

i think we have white marks on the boundary posts from 10th in. then 17th and 18th have white post. Though realistically if you are anywhere near OOB you will be in Gorse and wouldn't be able to find your ball anyway except unless you were on the practice grounds by 18

 

[Fyldewhite]

The problem with the white posts at ours is that they are used to mark OB where the line (if there were one) would be the arc of a circle (eg around the back of a green or just following the tree line etc). Because the grass is cut right up to this imaginary curved line the actual OB (when you line up the posts) means that a ball perfectly playable and effectively on the course is actually OB according to the rules. Sometimes, for big competitions the committee will white line it between the posts following the edge of the cut grass but when the line wears off it reverts to being line of sight. Not satisfactory and I'm sure many players would deem a ball in bounds when it shouldn't be.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Just white posts. Some need redoing as the white tops are faded and blend in with the other fence posts. We do have white lines painted for club championship weekend, which I guess begs the question why this can't be done more often