Winter Rules Pick and Place - Close Mown Area?

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

A fringe of one of our greens is cut right up to the edge of 3ft drop from the green to the fairway (from the fairway the green is raised up a steep step). Cutting it isn;t going to be that easy or indeed consistent - and so there a quite 'deep' tufts of faster growing and broad bladed grass in what is clearly the cut fringe. Do these tufts still count as 'close mown' even although they aren't.

Reason being is that my ball sat in one of these tufts (grass been deep enough for that - rather than sit 'on' the tuft) - only maybe 6" from edge of green. If I can mark, pick and place within 6" I can place on the neat and short fringe. Obvious very significant advantage in that I can putt whereas if I can't then possibly having to chip.

Or does the fact that the tuft is itself NOT close mown, even if in what would be deemed to be the fringe of the green, mean that mark and pick does not apply.

 

[duncan mackie]

A tuft in an area of closely mown grass is still closely mown.

Any doubt about the status of the area should be resolved with the committee ie it's their responsibility to ensure clarity.

You shouldn't need to worry about fast growing grasses for a few months now!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

A tuft in an area of closely mown grass is still closely mown.

Any doubt about the status of the area should be resolved with the committee ie it's their responsibility to ensure clarity.

You shouldn't need to worry about fast growing grasses for a few months now!

Good oh! Thought I might have to stick my £3 for 2nd place in Sat roll up in the Captains Charity bottle