relief from rabbit scrape

[MadAdey]

WTF is a rabbit scrape? Could a rabbit cause such carnage to deem a spot of ground unplayable?

I knowrules are rules, but come on! Man up and admit a poor shot bis a poor shot! Chip out from behind the tree and crack on!

Quite easily it can. It will be shallow at one end and deep at the other, bit like a divot and we all know how they can be a pain to get out of sometimes and a rabbit scrape tends to be deeper.

 

[rulefan]

Can that LR be phrased so it applies only to particular types of abnormal conditions such as holes made by burrowing animals or would it have to apply to all? I looked in the Appendix for a specimen rule but couldn't find one.

Cheers.

I see no reason why not. It doesn't say all AGCs.

 

[rulefan]

Note that the rule gives relief from holes not scrapes.

 

[Colin L]

MashieNiblick - while you could have a local rule not allowing relief from a rabbit hole interfering with stance only, it is perhaps not the safest example of doing this! Too many sprained ankles? I think a fairly common one is excluding stance relief for seamed turf.

 

[MashieNiblick]

Cheers. You're prbably right Colin but I still have a feeling that excluding relief for interference with stance would remove some grey areas and save a lot of shenanigans in this situation.

 

[rulefan]

It is no uncommon common to see this for flattened mole hills.

 

[MadAdey]

Always been a rule that has left a slight confusion in my head. Where do you normally find damage caused by burrowing animals? Around the base of trees, under bushes and that sort of general area.

So someone can hit a bad shot into the trees, get blocked out, but then get some free relief that enables him to get into a position to hit one onto the green. I have hit my drive straight down the middle ended up in a big old divot, but I do not get relief from that. So the situation is that the person who hit the bad drive ended up getting relief and the person who hit the good one got penalised.

I am not calling for the rules regarding the free relief to be changed, I am just wondering why a bad drive can get free relief and the good drive does not.

Does not seem fair to me, does it you?