correct or preferred way to "drop"

[iacas]

5 hours ago, Rulesman said:

20" and 80" measuring devices will be on the market shortly.

Undoubtedly. So?

P.S. I put tape on my alignment sticks.

[Rulesman]

My partner and I have patented a sprung telescopic device

[DaveP043]

1 hour ago, billchao said:

Wouldn't it be easier if they just said 1 club length? Then you can hold your putter out to measure with. Or even just stand fully erect with your arm fully extended or something?

In all the other measurements, they're going away from the clublength as a unit of measurement.  The new units for horizontal measurement of drops will be 20 and 80 inches (about 0.5 and 2.0 meters), which is why my suggestion is to use the smaller of those two.  As @Rulesman has suggested, i'm sure that devices to measure these distances will be on the market once the final rules are published.  

[Fourputt]

2 hours ago, billchao said:

Wouldn't it be easier if they just said 1 club length? Then you can hold your putter out to measure with. Or even just stand fully erect with your arm fully extended or something?

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I had to drop three times to get relief from a cart path on Saturday; kind of silly just to move the ball a couple of feet.

Point of interest... the rules only allow 2 drops unless one of them was made incorrectly.  After the second drop rolls outside of the allowed area, you place the ball where it first hit the ground.

[billchao]

2 hours ago, DaveP043 said:

In all the other measurements, they're going away from the clublength as a unit of measurement.  The new units for horizontal measurement of drops will be 20 and 80 inches (about 0.5 and 2.0 meters), which is why my suggestion is to use the smaller of those two.  As @Rulesman has suggested, i'm sure that devices to measure these distances will be on the market once the final rules are published.  

I have alignment sticks and electrical tape, I'm good.

In related news, I'm going to be selling multifunctional drop measurement aids 

25 minutes ago, Fourputt said:

Point of interest... the rules only allow 2 drops unless one of them was made incorrectly.  After the second drop rolls outside of the allowed area, you place the ball where it first hit the ground.

I think I dropped the first one across the path and realized it wasn't the nearest point of relief or something dumb like that and the second drop (first correct drop) ended up too close to the path again.

But thanks for the clarification. I'm not as familiar with the rules as I should be apparently.