cliveb
Head Pro
Just played in a match at a course where animals such as sheep and ponies roam.
All of the greens are surrounded by ropes held up by stakes to try and keep the animals off the greens.
These stakes & ropes (which the club calls "fences/stakes", even though they are stakes and ropes) are defined as immovable obstructions.
So far so good.
However, in their local rules there's this clause:
"If a ball strikes the fence/tapes of the hole being played the player may [my emphasis] replay the stroke".
The members confirmed that replaying the shot is indeed optional.
I know that the local rule about hitting power lines requires that the shot must be replayed - presumably there's some principle that you shouldn't be allowed to decide whether to be lucky.
I'd have thought the same should also apply to the ropes around a green, and wanted to ask whether this local rule is acceptable.
All of the greens are surrounded by ropes held up by stakes to try and keep the animals off the greens.
These stakes & ropes (which the club calls "fences/stakes", even though they are stakes and ropes) are defined as immovable obstructions.
So far so good.
However, in their local rules there's this clause:
"If a ball strikes the fence/tapes of the hole being played the player may [my emphasis] replay the stroke".
The members confirmed that replaying the shot is indeed optional.
I know that the local rule about hitting power lines requires that the shot must be replayed - presumably there's some principle that you shouldn't be allowed to decide whether to be lucky.
I'd have thought the same should also apply to the ropes around a green, and wanted to ask whether this local rule is acceptable.