Care for the green and help my opponent

[Lihu]

It's OT but just finish reading it @Lihu. Seriously.

I've read through it, and I'll do it again tonight. Maybe a few more times after too. . .

I'm slowly learning, but hey, it takes time to absorb all this information!

[Fourputt]

good luck trying to prove someone was purposely creating spike marks.some rules are stupid and need to be changed.a spike mark is not a natural part of the course the way the course was designed to play.Cant understand how you can remove a leaf or speck of dirt out of your line but yet something unnatural like a spike mark you cant tap down.When it comes to putting it should be only fair to be able to play the green as it was made and not altered by others.I imagine this rule may be changed down the road especially when it creates a controversy.

Not all course features are natural.  Green irregularities are a normal course condition, just like divot holes.  Cleat marks (almost nobody uses actual spikes any more) are just one of them.  They are far less intrusive than the old spike marks used to be, but even those weren't that big a deal.  Golfers these days are spoiled.  I first played back in the mid 1960s.  On a public course back then you never knew what you would see for green conditions.  I've even played on oiled sand greens, with no grass at all.  Players need to learn to play the course as they find it and stop complaining so much.