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To answer your question on why you would remove the club if it was not on the line of play---Rule 14-3 states that you may not have abnormal use of equipment. Laying a club on the ground for alignment would be an abnormal use of equipment. Holding a ball in your hand while making a stroke would be another example of abnormal use. It does not have anything to do with the line of play. Hope this helps. so you can touch the green along the route of your line, tamp down spike marks etc??? who knew?

Thank you. "Line of Play" is the intended route that your ball is intended to go. You cannot place a mark along that route. Your feet are not along the line of play as you do not intend the ball to go through your legs. On the green, you all know that you cannot touch your line of play. If you take a legal putting stance, you are not standing on your line of play as everyone whoever putted would be taking a two- stroke penalty. You can lay a club at your feet but must remove it before you play your shot. There is nothing in the Rules about a dew mark as it in not on your line of play. Yes, you can. You can brush away loose soil and sand as well.

You cannot wipe away the dew - dew is not a loose impediment. Some people here do not understand what the line of play is and use 8-2 for when it does not apply.

The line your feet are on is not the ;line of play as it is not the direction that you want your ball to travel on. Forget it.

Go to "Definitions" and read what "Line of Play" is.

You are confusing alignment with line of play. The Rules specify that you cannot have a mark that assists in indicating the line of play. The Rules state that you may lie a club at your feet for alignment but remove it before playing a shot. There is no mention of a line in the dew created by lying the club down. I went through Rules training and passed the test and this was brought up in discussion.

In a Decision on this, a player could align his feet with a club in the dew on the fairway, remove the club and use the line in the dew for alignment. It seems that it would be a violation but it is not.

I have 2. Both with 5-irons.

For all he says about speeding up the game, Jack Nicklaus is the single most cause of slow play in the modern era. Golf was not a slow game until he became famous on TV and took forever to play a shot.

I think he is a top 5 talent. He had the one hole disaster at the Masters that seemed to affect him for quite awhile. His short game may be the best on Tour. He may need to get another coach to help him hit more fairways.

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