Rules Question ??????

[edgey]

If the local rule allowing distance measuring devices is adopted you cannot obtain yardage information from anyone else if it has been obtained via that GPS/Laser on the course during the round.

In a nutshell if your playing partners are using GPS/Laser to obtain yardage during a competiton you cannot ask them to share it or accept that information or you will be subject to D/Q.

No - you are completely wrong. You need to read the bit about the local rule as Leftie and the man from Blackpool have already pointed out......

You could be right, i am going from what the pro told us at the course and our committee said.

In all fairness it does read that way.

If you are asking your partners yardage then i suggest you get your own Skycaddie and it wont be a problem.

Edgey

 

[Imurg]

Doesn't this just highlight how confusing some rules can be?
Read a sentance one way and you have a completely different spin on the rule, miss out a comma and it changes again.
I wonder what the Plain English squad would say about it.

 

[edgey]

Doesn't this just highlight how confusing some rules can be?
Read a sentance one way and you have a completely different spin on the rule, miss out a comma and it changes again.
I wonder what the Plain English squad would say about it.

Who said it was nice that it was sorted without any argument

 

[Imurg]

Doesn't this just highlight how confusing some rules can be?
Read a sentance one way and you have a completely different spin on the rule, miss out a comma and it changes again.
I wonder what the Plain English squad would say about it.

Who said it was nice that it was sorted without any argument

Not me

 

[Ethan]

If you are allowed to use a distance measuring device, you are allowed to provide the same as factual information to others.

If you aren't allowed to use it, you can't provide it to anybody else either. Duh.

The distance to the hole is a piece of factual information, so if you measure it in any permitted way, so too may you share that with an opponent/partner.

 

[Leftie]

Ethan

Can I recommend you for a position with the R&A writing the rules in a way that even golfers can understand?

 

[DCB]

Golf really does have some stupid rules doesn't it

Not really, imo. But it does highlight the fact that a lot of people are unable to understand what they read

And that is the biggest problem with the Rules in general. People don't read what's in front of them thoroughly

 

[beggsy]

what happens if your playing a 4bbb matchplay comp and my mate has 1 can he then tell me the yardage or is that not allowed

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Basically my SC lives in my pocket and I jsut have a quickj scan as I'm standing over my ball. As its usually at least 50 yards from where everyone else is standing in the fairway it isn't proper etiquette to start shouting

 

[viscount17]

Except when the Local Rule allowing the use of distance-measuring devices has been adopted (see Note to Rule 14-3), information regarding distance must not have been obtained from an artificial device used during the stipulated round.

everything hinges on one word 'Except' and one comma. Though the sentence is grammatically correct if it had been transposed there would be on misunderstanding.

'Information regarding distance must not have been obtained from an artificial device used during the stipulated round, except when the Local Rule allowing the use of distance-measuring devices has been adopted (see Note to Rule 14-3).

Golf really does have some stupid rules doesn't it

Not really, imo. But it does highlight the fact that a lot of people are unable to understand what they read

And that is the biggest problem with the Rules in general. People don't read what's in front of them thoroughly

No, the biggest problem is that the Rules of Golf are intended to be understood by anybody who plays the game, whatever their native language and level of education. That they aren't understood is mostly due to the way in which they are written.

For some years now, and for exactly the same reason, documentation for use in civil aviation has had to be written in Simplified Technical English. This specifies what words (and word forms) can and cannot be used, and defines the permissible meaning and context of common words (eg place can have only one meaning). This goes well beyond 'Plain English'.

Given that reputations and livelihoods hinge on exact interpretations, it is long past time that the Rules were rewritten.