Ruling Please

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Ballater Golf Club 12th fairway after the floods of last couple of weeks Hmmm. I'm guessing I'd get relief - but where to drop?

 

[ger147]

Where's your ball?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Where's your ball?

wedged under a boulder...?

Nature - the Mighty Vandal. My brother's mate took it - he's a member and thinks his weekend golfing retreat mobile home is here, there and everywhere between Ballater and Aberdeen.

 

[ger147]

Interesting as "stones" are loose impediments and therefore can be moved, but if in doing so your ball moves, you are penalised 1 stroke.

But not sure if boulders count as stones or not. Will be interesting to hear what the rules guys say.

 

[Dando]

Interesting as "stones" are loose impediments and therefore can be moved, but if in doing so your ball moves, you are penalised 1 stroke.

But not sure if boulders count as stones or not. Will be interesting to hear what the rules guys say.

Didn't Tiger get fans to move a boulder a few years ago?

 

[SatchFan]

Didn't Tiger get fans to move a boulder a few years ago?

Yes. Here's the evidence before some idiot asks for it.

[video=youtube;xadPSF3H2Wo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xadPSF3H2Wo[/video]

 

[rulefan]

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But not sure if boulders count as stones or not.

Loose impediments are natural objects so unless they are solidly embedded, they certainly do.

 

[ger147]

So no relief then by the sounds of it.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Just one big bit of bit of a mess that'll take a bit of clearing up. That's the River Dee for you when it gets angry

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Imagine waking up one morning to see your 12th fairway like that - clearing them will require a bit more sweat than 'pine-pulling'

 

[ManinBlack]

The members at Chester le Street once found a skip in the middle of one of the fairways which runs alongside the river Wear.

 

[woody69]

The members at Chester le Street once found a skip in the middle of one of the fairways which runs alongside the river Wear.

That would probably be classified as an immoveable obstruction though right?

 

[dufferman]

The up side though - imagine the (potential) bounces you might get off them things with your drive? Roll on a 350 yard drive!

 

[woody69]

The up side though - imagine the (potential) bounces you might get off them things with your drive? Roll on a 350 yard drive!

It's only 400 or so off the whites. Just drive the green and take the rocks out of play. Easy.

 

[Turtleboy]

One of the best & most beautiful courses I've played, I'm sure it will be back to its former glory by summer time.
The residents affected by the recent floods unfortunately will take a lot longer.

 

[Turtleboy]

A little farther down river nearer Aberdeen(approx 30 miles).
Some of the damage to the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre, the water was up to the balcony level,the buildings are approx 100yds from the river

 

[rulefan]

We have been under 2m of water. Up to the eaves of the H'way House.

 

[delc]

Ballater Golf Club 12th fairway after the floods of last couple of weeks Hmmm. I'm guessing I'd get relief - but where to drop?

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I've played at Ballater Golf Club several times and thought it was a lovely course, particularly down by the river. A great shame about the flooding. I hope not too much permanent damage has been caused. I also stayed in a house in Golf Course Road last Autumn that was also probably flooded. I hope things get sorted out for the local residents and the golf club.

 

[Beezerk]

The members at Chester le Street once found a skip in the middle of one of the fairways which runs alongside the river Wear.

Ha ha really? I heard there were some fish on the fairways after the river burst its banks a few years ago.

 

[stevelev]

What a bummer...........Lost ball return to last place and take another S&D hahaha