Thanks. Wasnt aware of the local rule possibility, and have never come across it, not heard of a course that has it. And am not at the level to ever be playing with a referee involved. In general everyone takes as long as they want at my level.
I think once caddies and measuring courses etc was in principle OK, DMDs were going to be hard to outlaw. I would go further on caddies - have posted before on how the idea of them is such an out of date Victorian hangover of a gentleman player and his porter to do the menial work is amazingly out of date. Its continued acceptance as normal is bizarre. Augusta and the white boiler suits is a particularly odd, but quite dixie, variant.
The point I was making is that there's no live measurement involved.
It is ok to carry a map that shows contours and elevations. The map may be in paper or electronic form.
It wasn't an app - just the first website that came up from a Google search that tells you the altitude of any point on Earth.
Yes - just the same as you can look at the flag on the flagstick.
I am not sure how a map (paper or otherwise) is measuring elevation, but not distance. In my view neither are measuring bit providing publicly available information, which is allowed.
Providing it is not in your yard and you erected it for wind measurement assistance when you play.
Yep, better of getting a feel for one or two club wind.
