Thanks Steven, thats a great list, and interesting on a variety of fronts.
1) I think it probably agrees with what would be the most broken rules in our club too. The only other ones that are routinely broken is the virtually certain element of a ball being in a hazard. We have several blind shots towards water and rough. People generally look for 3 mins (or more!), and if not found, draw the conclusion that it must be in the hazard and so take a drop. The other one is time to search. Three minutes would generally be exceeded.
2) I would know the rules better than all but a handful in our club. But I did not know three of your seven. Brushing away sand off the green, marking anothers ball without permission, and marking before identifying a ball.
3) All of those three though, are pretty inconsequential. And it begs the question if it worth having rules that are so trivial in their effect on the game, and so trivial that people probably dont know them. I am certainly not going to pull someone up for marking anothers ball without permission. We do it all the time and it keeps the game moving.
4) Advice goes on all the time. Particularly with fathers coaching teenage sons. But like point 7, I will continue to sign cards for those doing it. Acknowledging I am doing a disservice to others in the field, life is simply too short to bother with call on them to stop it. You are out for a social game. You may or may not know them that well. I couldnt be bothered.
5) On point 7 - the committee will never know anyway !
1) I think it probably agrees with what would be the most broken rules in our club too. The only other ones that are routinely broken is the virtually certain element of a ball being in a hazard. We have several blind shots towards water and rough. People generally look for 3 mins (or more!), and if not found, draw the conclusion that it must be in the hazard and so take a drop. The other one is time to search. Three minutes would generally be exceeded.
2) I would know the rules better than all but a handful in our club. But I did not know three of your seven. Brushing away sand off the green, marking anothers ball without permission, and marking before identifying a ball.
3) All of those three though, are pretty inconsequential. And it begs the question if it worth having rules that are so trivial in their effect on the game, and so trivial that people probably dont know them. I am certainly not going to pull someone up for marking anothers ball without permission. We do it all the time and it keeps the game moving.
4) Advice goes on all the time. Particularly with fathers coaching teenage sons. But like point 7, I will continue to sign cards for those doing it. Acknowledging I am doing a disservice to others in the field, life is simply too short to bother with call on them to stop it. You are out for a social game. You may or may not know them that well. I couldnt be bothered.
5) On point 7 - the committee will never know anyway !