Laying club on floor.

[ManinBlack]

One of my pet hates!

Definition....
Floor is the lower surface of a room.
Ground is the solid surface of the earth.

I think this is an English thing as the number of TV programmes I see which refer to the ground as the floor.

I belong to a Facebook group where the grammar Nazis get an instant ban.

 

[Tashyboy]

So just for clarity it is/is not legal/illegal to lay a club on the floor to line up a shot/line of shot. Plus we have a sea bed/floor. 🤔😁

 

[ManinBlack]

So just for clarity it is/is not legal/illegal to lay a club on the floor to line up a shot/line of shot. Plus we have a sea bed/floor. 🤔😁

Sea bed, ocean floor, I think.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

So just for clarity it is/is not legal/illegal to lay a club on the floor to line up a shot/line of shot. Plus we have a sea bed/floor. 🤔😁

You can't use alignment sticks so surely you can't use a club?

 

[jim8flog]

But l think that the above decision is only referring to the placing of a clubhead behind the ball - admittedly in a vaguely bizarre way - but putting the clubhead in that location is ultimately part of the process of making a stroke. I dont think the decision justifies or legitimises the laying out of a club in order to judge direction of play

Yes in the light of day rather than on the edge of sleep I can understand what the decision is referring to. Looks like an a query needs to go the R&A for clarifying.

 

[jim8flog]

It was mentioned in the golf world series with Anna Whiteley. Starts 3:13

Thetrouble with this video is as far as I can see it has no date, the Rules re laying down a club were changed in January 2019.

 

[Tashyboy]

Yes in the light of day rather than on the edge of sleep I can understand what the decision is referring to. Looks like an a query needs to go the R&A for clarifying.

Can i leave that onewith you Jim. Unless GM want to get involved. 😳😂

 

[robinthehood]

Can i leave that onewith you Jim. Unless GM want to get involved. 😳😂

I thought ok as last year you could do it. But it makes sense that it's been outlawed as it fits in with the belief that alignment is a skill that a player should execute without assistance.

 

[Orikoru]

I'd have thought that SURELY this is against the rules?? You're not allowed to use anything as an alignment aid are you?

 

[Imurg]

I'd have thought that SURELY this is against the rules?? You're not allowed to use anything as an alignment aid are you?

What about stripes cut on the teeing ground..?

 

[Orikoru]

What about stripes cut on the teeing ground..?

If you cut the stripes yourself then that shouldn't be allowed either!

 

[robinthehood]

I'd have thought that SURELY this is against the rules?? You're not allowed to use anything as an alignment aid are you?

, you used to be allowed to put a club down to check alignment, but had to remove before the shot. You can align your self to stuff that already lying around, an old tee, divot etc , you can't put them there though.

 

[Neilds]

Yet again a thread has gone off piste!!!!! If people actually read the OP, it is not about alignment at all.

Tashy’s question was about checking if a club has enough loft to get out the bunker/over the tree by standing on the head and checking the angle of the shaft. Is this allowed?

 

[Orikoru]

Yet again a thread has gone off piste!!!!! If people actually read the OP, it is not about alignment at all.

Tashy’s question was about checking if a club has enough loft to get out the bunker/over the tree by standing on the head and checking the angle of the shaft. Is this allowed?

Oh wow, sorry, you're right. That'll teach me to only skim-read Tashy's posts, should've known it wouldn't make sense if I did that.

 

[Neilds]

Oh wow, sorry, you're right. That'll teach me to only skim-read Tashy's posts, should've known it wouldn't make sense if I did that.

Sometimes they don’t make sense when you really study them🤪🤪🤪🤪

 

[jim8flog]

Can i leave that onewith you Jim. Unless GM want to get involved. 😳😂

Query already sent to the R&A

 

[SaintHacker]

I'd have thought that SURELY this is against the rules?? You're not allowed to use anything as an alignment aid are you?

So you've never stood behiind a tee shot, looked at your line then found something on the tee in front of the ball to aim yourself with?

 

[Tashyboy]

Query already sent to the R&A

Cheers jim Me man. The thing is as soon as i saw it. I was flummoxed. I thought am i the only one. I had never seen it before. Yet had seen it mentioned on here before. I am playing in a board doubles comp in two weeks and if it happens in that. Summat brown could hit the fan. 😘👍

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I've done it before and it does give a good visual idea of whether the loft is sufficient

 

[duncan mackie]

No idea what's being asked because there's nothing uncertain here to my mind.

Second guy first - as quoted correctly in #9 10.2 (b) 3 makes it clear that that is a penalty.

First guy is neither using unusual equipment nor using normal equipment in an unusual way. Henis fine