Preferred Lies

[Sam]

Local rules are generally:

Lift, clean and replace in any closely mown area through the green; club length not nearer hole etc.

My drive yesterday carried 202x and plugged at least an inch in the very wet fairway of an adjacent hole - fair old slice.

Was I wrong to lift, clean and replace?

 

[USER1999]

No, the local rule exists to protect the fairway from further damage, not to give the player an advantage.

 

[USER1999]

Oh, and unless you have very short clubs, normally the pick and place is within 6", not one club.

 

[andiritchie]

Pick, clean and place the joys of winter golf

 

[ColinR]

Am I also right in saying that if you ball plugs in ANY part of the golf course (excluding Hazards) you may pick and drop ?

 

[Sam]

Oh, and unless you have very short clubs, normally the pick and place is within 6", not one club.

Murph
My Club is quite short - only nine holes but the rule is one club length

 

[Herbie]

Its best to check local rules for this, some clubs only allow 6" but no nearer the hole. Also some local rules only refer to plugged balls, where other local rules mean PCP after any shot. Its worth being sure as my mate found when his ball landed picked up a lump of mud but wasnt plugged, he cleaned it and placed only to get a penalty as the rule only applied to plugged balls.Generally it refers to a ball on fairway regardless of being plugged or not, but CHECK!

 

[DCB]

Not usually in the rough unless a local rule specifically allows it to be lifted, cleaned and dropped.

 

[pigmeister]

You can pick and place on any fairways, tee boxes and any 1st cut mown area under winter rules.

 

[SammmeBee]

You can pick and place on any fairways, tee boxes and any 1st cut mown area under winter rules.

Apart from the on the tee of the hole you are playing.......

 

[balaclava]

This is another feature of golf in this country that I can't get my head around. My previous golf was in SA and there it was preferred lies all year round. Why? Because they'd rather have you sweep the ball neatly off the fairway than trying to dig it out of a divot. And - why not?

 

[CarpeDiem]

Good point and one that clubs should look at over here.