Ah the none UK folk are still awake ?None so far in 2023![]()
True. But it shows how the rules arent really fit for purpose for the average golfer. Or a least, the game can be played perfectly well without knowing the detail, and is even more fun and you score better if you just make a quick common sense decision with the agreement of your playing partners who dont really know the rules either.Only thing that's really astonished me this last year is the amount of guys who don't even know the very basic rules. And not beginners guys who've played for years.
Agree with you in friendly play. When I started out we played things like 3/4 over lakes and drop on the other side. Drop for two shots where a ball went OB before it was a local rule.True. But it shows how the rules arent really fit for purpose for the average golfer. Or a least, the game can be played perfectly well without knowing the detail, and is even more fun and you score better if you just make a quick common sense decision with the agreement of your playing partners who dont really know the rules either.
True. But it shows how the rules arent really fit for purpose for the average golfer. Or a least, the game can be played perfectly well without knowing the detail, and is even more fun and you score better if you just make a quick common sense decision with the agreement of your playing partners who dont really know the rules either.
The main rule break I've noticed is relief from the hazard that runs along the first 7 holes.. the moray firth. Playing one guy in the semi final of The Captains prize comp, he hit it straight on the beach crossing the hazard some 50 yards from the tee. The insisted he could drop it back on the course level where his ball ended up... some 200 further from where it crossed. ?? he's been a member for almost 50 years!Agree with you in friendly play. When I started out we played things like 3/4 over lakes and drop on the other side. Drop for two shots where a ball went OB before it was a local rule.
it’s when it happen in comps I get where Patricks was coming from.
Great argument in a sweep couple of weeks ago .Problem is the average golfer is too lazy to actually read the rules and relies upon someone telling them and if the person telling them does not keep up with the changes we have yet another golfer playing by the wrong rules who then goes on to tell another golfer and so it goes on. Then when a person gets told he is breaking a rule by someone who does keep up the arguments start.
I once lost a comp because of someone having a row with me over the correct rule, despite my offer to show him it in the rule book I was carrying he was not having it and it was a very basic rule about relief from a artificially surfaced path.
I carry a Rules Book but sadly never a walletGreat argument in a sweep couple of weeks ago .
Similar player on path asking for a drop. ( yes he can).
Guy says “ you don’t get a drop of the path”( he’s wrong.)
Player gets his wallet out and says “ I bet you £65 that your wrong that’s all I have with me”
Not another word.
The power of cold hard cash over the written word.!I carry a Rules Book but sadly never a wallet![]()
The main rule break I've noticed is relief from the hazard that runs along the first 7 holes.. the moray firth. Playing one guy in the semi final of The Captains prize comp, he hit it straight on the beach crossing the hazard some 50 yards from the tee. The insisted he could drop it back on the course level where his ball ended up... some 200 further from where it crossed. ?? he's been a member for almost 50 years!
True. But it shows how the rules arent really fit for purpose for the average golfer. Or a least, the game can be played perfectly well without knowing the detail, and is even more fun and you score better if you just make a quick common sense decision with the agreement of your playing partners who dont really know the rules either.
I disagree. You can get the ball round the course but you are not playing the game if you don't know the rules.
Some of the less likely to happen rules are difficult to remember but the main ones are straight forward.
Nobody ever doesn't know (apply) the rules to there disadvantage, they always try and benefit from "not knowing them".
I'm amazed you don't know when you are about to get a big infaction??I'm amazed that you think that's a hazard rather than a penalty area. ?
Wow!The main rule break I've noticed is relief from the hazard that runs along the first 7 holes.. the moray firth. Playing one guy in the semi final of The Captains prize comp, he hit it straight on the beach crossing the hazard some 50 yards from the tee. The insisted he could drop it back on the course level where his ball ended up... some 200 further from where it crossed. ?? he's been a member for almost 50 years!
I'm amazed that you think that's a hazard rather than a penalty area. ?