preferred lies

[TeeItHigh]

Can anyone please clarify, what is a preferred lie and can u lift and clean your ball when it is in operation?

 

[pbrown7582]

Preferred lies mark clean and place not nearer hole within 6 inches I believe on all mown parts.

 

[TeeItHigh]

Thanks for clarifying that:cheers:

 

[duncan mackie]

Can anyone please clarify, what is a preferred lie and can u lift and clean your ball when it is in operation?

depends on the specific local rule in place - you should always check

generally in the UK it's mark, pick, clean and place (once) within 6" on closely mown areas

I understand that a lot of clubs have approached their regional golf union for permission to run Q comps over the next couple of weeks with preferred lies in place because of the recent weather.

 

[pbrown7582]

Ah yeah good point my bad apoligies always best to check local rule they can vary!

 

[Val]

I had a moral dilemma on Sat, preffered lies on the fairway but I hit a wild stinker onto the next fairway and caught a bad lie, would you use the referred lie rule or take your medicine? In the end I took the medicine and had a double bogey but really should have taken the prefered lie.

Thoughts?

 

[garyinderry]

a fairway is a fairway my man as far as i am aware! dont mug yourself!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I had a moral dilemma on Sat, preffered lies on the fairway but I hit a wild stinker onto the next fairway and caught a bad lie, would you use the referred lie rule or take your medicine? In the end I took the medicine and had a double bogey but really should have taken the prefered lie.

Thoughts?

I'm a strong advocate of using the rules to your advantage and so if you were entitled to the preferred lie I'd have taken it. I know some clubs that actually have a local rule in place restricting it to mown areas on te hole in play which would have prohibited you anyway

 

[pbrown7582]

On the fairway take the preferred lie regardless of which fairway it is,

 

[garyinderry]

at our course its usually "thru the green" !

 

[rosecott]

I had a moral dilemma on Sat, preffered lies on the fairway but I hit a wild stinker onto the next fairway and caught a bad lie, would you use the referred lie rule or take your medicine? In the end I took the medicine and had a double bogey but really should have taken the prefered lie.
Thoughts?

The specimen local rule does not mention fairways, only close-mown areas (i.e. cut to fairway length or lower), so, if where you land is close-mown, you can pick and place, even if it's 2 fairways from the hole you are playing.

 

[Val]

Cheers guys, for me it's easy to say after what I should have done but if I had made par I probably would never had mentioned it here anyway.