Kicked off today re lost ball rule can anyone end the war?

.just as we thought...thanks...I suppose I should have mentioned in the original thread we dont take the game to extremes as per the rule book..my fault .... we arent the type of lads to go wandering back to the tee..it was more of a less informal unwritten penalty so to speak no way should you play 3 though in my opinion...just play a provisional eh dont count on finding it ! Cheers.
 
Robster59 said:
I've no objection to not confirming to the norm but if somebody decides to name call in their first thread don't you think that's out of order?
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May not have been the best of starts but the use of the expression troll on here is staggering, as I have said in another topic, it's like the "go to" word when someone can't or won't discuss/debate things so just jumps on the troll bandwagon, it's dull, tedious, predictable and wholly un-inventive.
 
RandG said:
May not have been the best of starts but the use of the expression troll on here is staggering, as I have said in another topic, it's like the "go to" word when someone can't or won't discuss/debate things so just jumps on the troll bandwagon, it's dull, tedious, predictable and wholly un-inventive.
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If you check through my posts it's not a phrase I throw about lightly, or at all in fact. I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. However we will agree to disagree.
 
TJ Hooker said:
For us nobeads if one us us is daft enough to not play a provisional then they are playing 4 or they can go back to the tee and play 3 and can piss off the pringle wearing nobead members brigade follwing behind who wont be playing through ...that would seem fair.
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If the group behind is moving faster why won't they be playing through or have I misunderstood what you wrote?
 
If, as I understand it, you are, as you say, "weekend hackers", then as far as I am concerned then you should already have your own rules in place for this situation, EG "just chuck one down about there and call it playing three" or whatever you've decided the punishment is. You're there to enjoy the round with your mates. Don't over complicate things by following the exact rules, unless one of you starts to take it a birt seriously. Just work out a way of playing to keep things moving and you to continue to enjoy the round and golf.
 
TJ Hooker said:
Hi All..in a 3 ball today guy hit his drive into rough on a par 4 he didnt play a provisional.. the ball was declared lost by all in the group including the guy who hit it. Should he be playing 3 or 4 from this position ? He reckoned 3 we reckoned 4 as he wasnt going back to the tee .who is right ? Many thanks in advance.
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As others have said, if playing under the rules, only option is back to the tee - but in a "mates game" only, he would drop a ball & be playing 4. The rationale runs along lines of - 1st shot is lost, so there is a notional trek back to the tee to play three off the tee under stroke & distance, and the notional third shot would land roughly where you lost the first one, so you'd be playing your 4th from there.
 
backwoodsman said:
As others have said, if playing under the rules, only option is back to the tee - but in a "mates game" only, he would drop a ball & be playing 4. The rationale runs along lines of - 1st shot is lost, so there is a notional trek back to the tee to play three off the tee under stroke & distance, and the notional third shot would land roughly where you lost the first one, so you'd be playing your 4th from there.
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Of course essentially the new Local Rule does this legally. Providing you do it properly as specified.
 
There's a conflict here between the actual rules of golf (i.e. which must be abided by if playing in a competition), and the rules you agree between yourselves during a friendly knock.

Official rules of golf, your man should have gone back to the tee having not found his ball. But as you were playing a friendly knock rather than a competition, then frankly the rules are what you all agree them to be. In my friendly games, if someone loses a ball off their tee shot, they would drop a ball in the area where it was lost and then be hitting their third shot. We've never played it to be two penalty shots for the drop, but maybe others do play it that way. You can't really ask us to settle it though since the official rule of golf is to go back to the tee, so if he's not doing that you just have to settle it amongst yourselves.
 
Orikoru said:
In my friendly games, if someone loses a ball off their tee shot, they would drop a ball in the area where it was lost and then be hitting their third shot. We've never played it to be two penalty shots for the drop, but maybe others do play it that way.
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Exactly the way we play in friendly knocks, although we allow th edrop to be on th eedge of the fairway near where the ball crossed to disappear.
 
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