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re: Explanation of Spieth's drop yesterday?
Posted on 7/24/17 at 11:34 am to dpd901
Posted on 7/24/17 at 11:34 am to dpd901
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That may save you a shot one day!
Here's the crazy thing... you can take an unplayable anywhere but OB or in a Water Hazard.
Let's say you're playing on crazy fast greens and you have a 3 footer that you miss and it rolls completely off the green and into some thick rough. You could technically take an unplayable, take a penalty stroke and replay the three footer.
I am not sure I like this rule.....seems like a loophole that you can take,advantage of. I don't know what constitutes unplayable. There was one golfer whose ball got stuck in a tree. I would call that unplayable. But Speith's was visible in the thick grass since he could identify that it was his ball. I think he should have been made to play the ball where it was. There were no obstructions to his swing, etc.
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Posted on 7/24/17 at 11:39 am to gumbeaux
quote:It's at the discretion of the golfer. You are taking a penalty stroke rather than hitting it. Happens often in hazards but can take place elsewhere. There's no objective difference between being against a tree and being stuck deep in the middle of 2 ft of grass.
I don't know what constitutes unplayable.
Posted on 7/24/17 at 11:59 am to gumbeaux
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. I think he should have been made to play the ball where it was. There were no obstructions to his swing, etc.
Well, there are lots of things I THINK should be in the rules of golf, but aren't.
End of the day, on every golf swing you ever play, you always have the option to replay the shot from as close as possible to the original shot under penalty of one stroke.
You also, unless the ball is out of bounds or lost, always have the option to play the ball as it lies. If it's on a sprinkler head, on a cart path, or at the bottom of a pond, you are entitled to take a swing at it (local rules aside)
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