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By ChetlovesMer · Posted
In the fairway? ???? hmmm...... Wait, I thought we talking about the rule being "unfair"? ... If we are talking about speeding up play they have a local rule for that which any league can implement. -
I have lost a ball in a fair way many, many times. Playing into the sun, get blinded only to find out no one in your group was paying attention. or worse, everyone in your group saw the ball go out to the fair way, but it just disappears! Regarding Mulligans I would advocate for 1 per round (maybe 1 per 9) for both pro and amateurs. personally speaking, I rarely play different courses, but when I do it is somewhere I have never played before. Cant tell you how many times I have hit a ball only to have it end up in a bad spot, "had a known I would not have hit that club". For the Pros I think it would add a layer of planning and strateegery! Regarding Stroke and Distance. I know some hackers who are going to hit their tee OB or lost in the woods all day. And that is just on tee 1. Then they are going to go try and find the ball only to march back and hit it back into the woods. I dont want to spend my sat morning in a endless groundhog day cycle of looking for a lost ball and watching a hacker his next shot in to the same spot. As the author said, the game is already slow.... -
By ChetlovesMer · Posted
I think there's also a driving range component to this. I see guys on the range who can get "into a groove" for lack of a better term and hit ball after ball dead straight. Hell, once and I while even I can do that. But in real golf you don't get to hit 20 seven irons in row. You get one chance to hit the shot. You aren't in a groove. You aren't on a perfect lie. So when folks hit a bad shot on the course, they think back to the range were they hit 10 beauties in a row. "Well, clearly I can hit my seven iron dead straight, so therefore it can't be my skill. It must be a weak mental game." What they don't remember is it took them eight or nine shots that were all pretty sketchy before they got into their groove and hit the ten beauties in a row. There's an old saying "To be good you should practice until you get it right. To be great you have to practice until you can't get it wrong." -
I get the argument that the guys in your league are making - It isn't 100% fair that when you hit an OK shot that you get penalized for something the guys on TV would not have to worry about. It isn't 100% fair that the pros get to play the courses every day and know exactly where they might have trouble with long rough and your league is a bunch of amateurs trying to have fun once a week and do not have the time to scout where maintenance might be a little behind with mowing. The best argument you can make to your league is to prove to them that it is way fairer to make everyone play by the rules than it is for a person to take an illegal free drop and beat the rest of the league because of it. I've given up on trying to change things at my course. I know that very few people are playing 100% by the rules, and it is probably much worse than it is in your league. I've come to be ok with it. I want people to be golfing and having fun. I know where I stack up against the golf course every round. -
By ChetlovesMer · Posted
This. Plus you know they'd all still compare themselves to the pros. "Ha, McIlroy shot a 75 today. He only beat me by one stroke!" I've lost a ball in the rough a few times. But I think I've only ever lost a ball that I was sure was in the fairway once. EVER! I'm with you on this one. It's funny to me that they want the rules to be less penalizing for "amateurs", but they won't freaking move up a tee box. This whole thing is very weak. What's next? Should amateurs be allowed four free Mulligans every round? Maybe they should cap all putting at a 3 putt, or heck why stop there, all GIR's get an automatic two putt. Perhaps once every other hole amateurs should be allowed to throw the ball rather than half to hit it. I know, make the hole 36 inches in diameter for amateurs. Quit being weak. The rules are fine like they are. Put on your big boy pants and play golf.
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