Reasonable Estimates (Modernized Rules + Lexi Thompson)

[Jack Watson]

3 minutes ago, iacas said:

It's all the advantage you need to avoid a spike mark or something. 

 Plus it was closer to three quarters of an inch. 

I agree it was enough to avoid a spike mark. 

In terms of a comparison with vehicles it's the equivalent of failing to stop completely at a stop sign on a deserted intersection.  

 

[WestKyGolfer]

1 hour ago, Jack Watson said:

I agree it was enough to avoid a spike mark. 

In terms of a comparison with vehicles it's the equivalent of failing to stop completely at a stop sign on a deserted intersection.

 

 

 

Not stopping at a stop sign doesn't cost the player 1 stroke behind you a fair chance at $300,000.

[iacas]

2 hours ago, Jack Watson said:

In terms of a comparison with vehicles it's the equivalent of failing to stop completely at a stop sign on a deserted intersection.  

No.

[Fourputt]

On 4/5/2017 at 11:18 AM, GolfLug said:

Not reasonable at all. Marker-ball-hole: straight line. It is not that hard to do. IMO anything over quarter a ball off in any direction even for a weekender should raise eye-brows.

OT: I don't know why didn't she just fix the damn depression? It was not a spike mark if the ball was sitting IN it. Tells me that this is usual practice for her and she didn't even think that this was not marking the ball properly.

 

 

How does anyone reach that level and not know how to properly mark and replace a ball?  There is something fishy about the whole affair.  I didn't see it happen, and I hadn't even heard anything about it until just now (had other things going with getting a new camping trailer ready for our first trip of the season), but incidents like this one just don't ring true.  Did she really think that it was okay to place the ball that far off?  I learned how to correctly mark and replace a ball long before I ever saw a rule book.

Edited April 17, 2017 by Fourputt

[cutchemist42]

On 05/04/2017 at 1:59 PM, iacas said:

I don't either. I'm not sure why marking and replacing a ball (ostensibly on the putting green, at least around 99% of the time…) is included as an example.

FWIW, a penny is 3/4" in diameter. A quarter is almost a full inch across. A pencil eraser is about 0.2".

Before i got proper contacts to play in, i was probably missing that with my keratoconus quite a bit. She had no excuse, but I could see someone with bad sight missing those marks.