njc
Newbie
I'm purely a social golfer and have never played a competition. Almost always play with the same partner and we try to observe "most" of the rules of golf when we play.
We will however bend the rules somewhat usually in the interests of keeping the course flowing and not holding up better golfers behind us.
An example of this rule bending would be lost balls. Sure we'll hit a provisional when a ball is definitely in trouble but we certainly wouldn't dare trudge back to the tee to hit another if a ball that we thought would be fine can't be found. (particularly this time of year with fallen leaves everywhere etc) In that case we'd take a penalty stroke and drop a ball as close to where we think it should be etc.
So really just curious - on a social round what rules do you not observe to the letter? Also curious - on a social round do you always go off the yellows or do you still play the whites?
njc.
We will however bend the rules somewhat usually in the interests of keeping the course flowing and not holding up better golfers behind us.
An example of this rule bending would be lost balls. Sure we'll hit a provisional when a ball is definitely in trouble but we certainly wouldn't dare trudge back to the tee to hit another if a ball that we thought would be fine can't be found. (particularly this time of year with fallen leaves everywhere etc) In that case we'd take a penalty stroke and drop a ball as close to where we think it should be etc.
So really just curious - on a social round what rules do you not observe to the letter? Also curious - on a social round do you always go off the yellows or do you still play the whites?
njc.