Golf unveils a modern set of rules to make it easier to play

[edjr 6,898]

 

When I started taking my son golfing a few years ago, we went to a local 9-hole course set up for families, and they have two holes on every green -- a regulation-sized hole and one which is about 3x the normal size. I made him play the regulation hole because I did not want him to be a poosay.

 

 

 

he's your son, he's screwed there

[fricker66 93]

 

he's your son, he's screwed there

 

And you wonder why we left and don't come back that often, eh?....

[edjr 6,898]

 

And you wonder why we left and don't come back that often, eh?....

 

don't poke the bear.

[fricker66 93]

 

if he takes after his father, the writing is on the wall there

 

Nice edit, but my prior post still applies.

[edjr 6,898]

 

Nice edit, but my prior post still applies.

 

as does mine.

 

been here 2 posts and you want to take a shot at me., for no reason.

 

deal with it

[fricker66 93]

 

don't poke the bear.

 

 

Because the bear will take a potshot at your kids...

[edjr 6,898]

 

 

Because the bear will take a potshot at your kids...

 

 

play the regulation hole because I did not want him to be a poosay.

 

 

 

you brought your son up while taking a shot at me, genius.

[fricker66 93]

 

you brought your son up while taking a shot at me, genius.

 

I didn't take any shot at you, Mr. lack-of-self-confidence. I was telling a story that coincided with your suggestion that they should make the hole bigger.

[fricker66 93]

Geez...sensitive folks over here. I am sorry that I offended you, edjr. Can we get back to talking about golf now?

[edjr 6,898]

Geez...sensitive folks over here. I am sorry that I offended you, edjr. Can we get back to talking about golf now?

 

Seemed as if you were calling me a pus$y, which isn't far from the truth. I'm sorry if I took it that way.

[drobeski 3,061]

Get a room

[edjr 6,898]

Get a room

 

keep your sick fantasies to yourself, freak.

[drobeski 3,061]

 

keep your sick fantasies to yourself, freak.

[fricker66 93]

Get a room

 

This isn't very cordial of you, drobeski. Golf is a gentlemen's game, so can you be a bit more civil?

 

drobeski is a poosay

 

A

[drobeski 3,061]

 

This isn't very cordial of you, drobeski. Golf is a gentlemen's game, so can you be a bit more civil?

 

 

drobeski is a poosay

A

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[Patriotsfatboy1 1,433]

 

I am talking about hitting it OOB, not hitting a provo and walking up and playing distance and hitting 3, whether or not you find your drive

In stroke play, you would incur an additional 2 stroke penalty for playing from the wrong spot. In match play, you lose the hole.

 

If you hit the ball OB, there is no relief similar to a lateral hazard that allows you to play it where it went OB. Your only option is to hit from your previous spot with a one stroke penalty.

 

If we aren't playing for money, I don't give a sh!t what you do. If we are playing for something, then play by the rules.

[listen2me 23 1,952]

Where do you people against OB drop the ball? Im sure when it crosses OB 100 yards off the tee you guys go 240 out and drop a ball.

 

If you think it is dumb having OB more costly than a hazard then just aim your crappy shot at the pond and not OB.

 

All I see here is golfers looking for their safe space.

 

Play an easier course or hit from the senior tees if you need the game easier. Their are plenty of cheap ass courses that are basically a farm field with no trouble. Play those.

 

But like Pats said, if you are just playing a regular saturday round, no one cares what rules you want to play by. Hell pick the ball up and carry ot to the hole if that will make you feel better about your game.

[dain11279 980]

Where do you people against OB drop the ball? Im sure when it crosses OB 100 yards off the tee you guys go 240 out and drop a ball.

 

If you think it is dumb having OB more costly than a hazard then just aim your crappy shot at the pond and not OB.

 

All I see here is golfers looking for their safe space.

 

Play an easier course or hit from the senior tees if you need the game easier. Their are plenty of cheap ass courses that are basically a farm field with no trouble. Play those.

 

But like Pats said, if you are just playing a regular saturday round, no one cares what rules you want to play by. Hell pick the ball up and carry ot to the hole if that will make you feel better about your game.

 

The guys that I play with in our matches are not scratch golfers but they're not hacks either. Some are single digit, some have handicaps around 20. I'm around a 12-14 and I've never heard of not following the OB rule.

 

I asked another guy who plays in a hack league at my home course (most guys are lucky if they break 50 for 9 from the whites) and they said they follow the OB rule as well. Maybe it's different for other courses

[parrot 789]

If you think it is dumb having OB more costly than a hazard then just aim your crappy shot at the pond and not OB.

 

 

Using tactics to avoid being punished by a dumb rule doesn't make the rule any less dumb.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,433]

 

Using tactics to avoid being punished by a dumb rule doesn't make the rule any less dumb.

I still don't see how it is dumb. The course should have boundaries to it. Not all hazards have the same options either. If you hit into a water hazard, you aren't allowed to take the same relief as a lateral hazard.

 

If you want to avoid the penalty, don't hit it OB.

[Cruzer 1,996]

I still think the OB rule is a fantastic one. Mostly bcoz leaving the field of play (aka the golf course) should be the ultimate penalty one can drive from a shot played... Hazards, are by very definition, just an obstacle. An obstacle one could conceivably recover from, or still save par... When you leave the yard - you should be tagged more severely... Plus - some of the actual boundaries defining OB are integral parts of the game.. Ones you don't get relief from as you would a hazard... The famous Road Hole - how many times has that wall been a part of history?

[parrot 789]

I still don't see how it is dumb. The course should have boundaries to it. Not all hazards have the same options either. If you hit into a water hazard, you aren't allowed to take the same relief as a lateral hazard.

 

If you want to avoid the penalty, don't hit it OB.

 

The ball is either playable after your shot or it's not. Why should hitting it in water be punished less than putting it past a white stake? In either case you made a bad shot, and oftentimes the water shot was a much worse shot. For amateurs OB could and should be treated just like a lateral IMO.

[NorthernVike 2,096]

Oldie but a goodie...

 

 

 

 

A GOLF ETHICS QUESTION

What if you were playing in the club championship tournament finals and the match was halved at the end of 17 holes.

You had the honors and hit your ball a modest two hundred fifty yards to the middle of the fairway, leaving a simple six iron to the pin.

Your opponent then hits his ball, lofting it deep into the woods to the right of the fairway.

Being the golfing gentleman that you are; you help your opponent look for his ball.

Just before the permitted five minute search period ends, your opponent says: "Go ahead and hit your second shot and if I don't find it in time, I'll concede the match."

You hit your ball, landing it on the green, stopping about ten feet from the pin.

About the time your ball comes to rest, you hear your opponent exclaim from deep in the woods:

"I found it!"

The second sound you hear is a click, the sound of a club striking a ball and the ball comes sailing out of the woods and lands on the green, stopping no more than six inches from the hole.

NOW HERE IS THE ETHICAL DILEMMA:

Do you pull the cheating focker's ball out of your pocket and confront him with it or do you keep your mouth shut?

 

[Cruzer 1,996]

Oldie but a goodie...

 

 

 

 

A GOLF ETHICS QUESTION

 

What if you were playing in the club championship tournament finals and the match was halved at the end of 17 holes.

 

You had the honors and hit your ball a modest two hundred fifty yards to the middle of the fairway, leaving a simple six iron to the pin.

 

Your opponent then hits his ball, lofting it deep into the woods to the right of the fairway.

 

Being the golfing gentleman that you are; you help your opponent look for his ball.

 

Just before the permitted five minute search period ends, your opponent says: "Go ahead and hit your second shot and if I don't find it in time, I'll concede the match."

 

You hit your ball, landing it on the green, stopping about ten feet from the pin.

 

About the time your ball comes to rest, you hear your opponent exclaim from deep in the woods:

 

"I found it!"

 

The second sound you hear is a click, the sound of a club striking a ball and the ball comes sailing out of the woods and lands on the green, stopping no more than six inches from the hole.

 

NOW HERE IS THE ETHICAL DILEMMA:

 

Do you pull the cheating focker's ball out of your pocket and confront him with it or do you keep your mouth shut?

 

I'm not sure I'm following - why would you have his ball in your pocket? .... Or is this part of the riddle - deciding to call him a cheat knowing your are one too?

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,433]

 

The ball is either playable after your shot or it's not. Why should hitting it in water be punished less than putting it past a white stake? In either case you made a bad shot, and oftentimes the water shot was a much worse shot. For amateurs OB could and should be treated just like a lateral IMO.

In many instances, hitting in the water is not a bad shot. Maybe short, long, little left or right. Hitting it OB is typically a shank. As Cruzer states, it should have a higher penalty than hitting it in a hazard.

 

Also, you can play a ball out of a hazard. You can't play a ball that is OB.

[Mike Honcho 5,435]

I'm not sure I'm following - why would you have his ball in your pocket? .... Or is this part of the riddle - deciding to call him a cheat knowing your are one too?

 

[DankNuggs 305]

I'm not sure I'm following - why would you have his ball in your pocket? .... Or is this part of the riddle - deciding to call him a cheat knowing your are one too?

Because you found it in the woods and stuffed it in your pocket to lock the win

[DankNuggs 305]

I will say that if you can play the shot, whether OB or not you should be allowed to hit it.

[Cruzer 1,996]

Because you found it in the woods and stuffed it in your pocket to lock the win

That's what I first thought - but figured there must be a punch line.......... We've actually had 2 instances like this happen. Both with the same guy cheating.. One time it came to blows - got us kicked out of a club... It was ugly - but he did do it, I saw it - I was in the group.

[parrot 789]

Also, you can play a ball out of a hazard. You can't play a ball that is OB.

 

Which makes OB an automatic penalty, so it would still be punished worse than a lateral. Everybody's happy.

[parrot 789]

Oldie but a goodie...

 

 

 

 

A GOLF ETHICS QUESTION

 

What if you were playing in the club championship tournament finals and the match was halved at the end of 17 holes.

 

You had the honors and hit your ball a modest two hundred fifty yards to the middle of the fairway, leaving a simple six iron to the pin.

 

Your opponent then hits his ball, lofting it deep into the woods to the right of the fairway.

 

Being the golfing gentleman that you are; you help your opponent look for his ball.

 

Just before the permitted five minute search period ends, your opponent says: "Go ahead and hit your second shot and if I don't find it in time, I'll concede the match."

 

You hit your ball, landing it on the green, stopping about ten feet from the pin.

 

About the time your ball comes to rest, you hear your opponent exclaim from deep in the woods:

 

"I found it!"

 

The second sound you hear is a click, the sound of a club striking a ball and the ball comes sailing out of the woods and lands on the green, stopping no more than six inches from the hole.

 

NOW HERE IS THE ETHICAL DILEMMA:

 

Do you pull the cheating focker's ball out of your pocket and confront him with it or do you keep your mouth shut?

 

[NorthernVike 2,096]

I'm not sure I'm following - why would you have his ball in your pocket? .... Or is this part of the riddle - deciding to call him a cheat knowing your are one too?

 

 

[listen2me 23 1,952]

 

Using tactics to avoid being punished by a dumb rule doesn't make the rule any less dumb.

Why is it dumb?

 

If there is one tree 3 yards into the rough on the right but nothing on the left and tou hit your drive right and behind said tree....is that dumb? Because there is no tree on the other side and you would have been fine if you hit it left?

 

Why is pass int 15 yards when it is on the offense in football yet at the spot of the ball on defense? Why are some penalties worth more yards or a loss of down?

 

Why are different parks in baseball different dimensions? Why if you hit it in one direction it is a home run but the other it is not because it has a longer fence?

 

I really am not understanding what you people are talking about with this OB crap. How is it a dumb rule?

[listen2me 23 1,952]

Why on a dart board do you get 20 pts but if you hit a cm to the right it is suddenly worth 1? It is basically the same shot.

 

Sports and games are all stupid and eveyone should make their own rules up.

[Cruzer 1,996]

Still would like to see the sand filled divot rule looked into.

[NorthernVike 2,096]

Still would like to see the sand filled divot rule looked into.

Traps up here suck so bad that we play rake and place.

[vuduchile 1,947]

Still would like to see the sand filled divot rule looked into.

I agree. It's really a man made impression on the natural landscape. Avoiding them is not a skill, it's just pure dumb luck.

[Cruzer 1,996]

I agree. It's really a man made impression on the natural landscape. Avoiding them is not a skill, it's just pure dumb luck.

At the very least, it's ground under repair. I don't know understand how it is not treated the same as other grounds under repair.

[fricker66 93]

At the very least, it's ground under repair. I don't know understand how it is not treated the same as other grounds under repair.

 

 

Not if the douche who made the divot failed to repair it...then it is just an unrepaired divot. Where does one draw the line? I am a big believer in playing the ball as it lies unless it plugs.

[Cruzer 1,996]

 

 

Not if the douche who made the divot failed to repair it...then it is just an unrepaired divot. Where does one draw the line? I am a big believer in playing the ball as it lies unless it plugs.

Yea, that does happen. Especially by walkers - they don't exactly carry sand around with them.