New Local Rules

[rulie]

Although obviously those players hitting it 280 OOB constantly referenced in this thread might struggle to get their 'provisional' stroke off before the 3min mark!

To my mind this is one of those changes that is designed to remove the issues associated with 'going forward to search' previously, and taken with the reduced search time, becomes self balancing ie you are going to have to pretty quickly decide you should hit a provisional in order to be hitting a provisional!

Agree on that self-balancing or self-regulating aspect. We were doing test runs of the new Rules in our group this past week and three minutes passes by very quickly. It's also worthy of note that any "known or virtually certain" issues (penalty area, ball not found near abnormal course conditions, ball taken by outside influence etc) must be concluded within those same three minutes.

 

[jim8flog]

Of course, the others in your group can continue the search while you get your breath back.

I think that they should wait to get the breath back until after hitting the provisional.

 

[rulefan]

Although obviously those players hitting it 280 OOB constantly referenced in this thread might struggle to get their 'provisional' stroke off before the 3min mark!

Given that the driving length of the 'model' scratch player is 250 yards and the average tour driving length is 289 yards, these guys will almost certainly have a gallery of spectators to find their ball. So no problem there.