I had a discussion with my club pro recently regarding whether you need to actually find your ball to declare it unplayable and take stroke and distance. Obviously, to take back on the line or 2 club lengths you need to find it to get the reference point
As a player, you also have a responsibility to learn and understand the Rules of Golf. Five of the most common Rules are those deal with Out of Bounds, Lost balls, Unplayable lies, cart paths and water hazards. Moving on, if your group stops for refreshments, either at the turn (th...
Unplayable Lie for Camilo Villegas - he had options More archives here... Sharpen Your Rules Knowledge Here is an inside look into the lives of rules officials and what makes them tick. It's an illness :) Some of my fellow officials and I were spotlighted in this Golf Channel piece pr...
In the last episode of PDGA Rules School, we examined the putting area and the special rules that are in effect when a lie is within 10 meters of the base of the target. In this episode, we’ll be looking at Out-of-Bounds (OB) areas, which are another ty
There is also the term "preferred lies," which refers to a local rule that allows, under certain conditions, golfers to move their golf ball out of specific poor lies. Another term for preferred lies is "winter rules." 'Lie' as Scoring Shorthand ...
(despite the rather strange look from my club guy) and the other with a 75-gram X-flex graphite shaft I’d had in another driver that I didn’t totally hate and hadn’t thrown in a lake yet. The steel-shafted one was utterly unplayable – way too heavy. The other one was ...
Application of the Rules QA-APP-1: Is there a priority order for which violation should count if more than one rule applies? Yes. The violation with the most severe penalty is applied. Ties are broken by what happened first. A single throw cannot be pen
Ultimately, what we’d like you to take away from this “Lab” report is the following: be honest with yourself. Go to the range, or, even better, get on a launch monitor, and find out how far your clubs actually go. Not “how far they went that one time when it was downhill,...
As a player, you also have a responsibility to learn and understand the Rules of Golf. Five of the most common Rules are those deal with Out of Bounds, Lost balls, Unplayable lies, cart paths and water hazards. Moving on, if your group stops for refreshments, either at the turn ...