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If you could change one rule in golf ( USGA/ R&A), what would it be.
Posted on 8/16/22 at 4:15 pm
Posted on 8/16/22 at 4:15 pm
It would be the OB Rule.
Even with the recent OB rule change, a lot of amateur's don't play it correctly. There was an argument this morning about it at the Club.
It certainly slows the game down.
Player A -
He hits his drive 270 and it takes a bounce right and ends up one foot out of bounds. he is hitting 3 from the tee box or he can hit from where it went out and is hitting 4.
Player B -
Hits his drive 270 and it bounces into a creek. he can take the distance and is now just hitting 3.
Ben Crenshaw has been pretty vocal about changing the OB Rule and believes it is too harsh and slows the game down.
One example -
LINK
Even with the recent OB rule change, a lot of amateur's don't play it correctly. There was an argument this morning about it at the Club.
It certainly slows the game down.
Player A -
He hits his drive 270 and it takes a bounce right and ends up one foot out of bounds. he is hitting 3 from the tee box or he can hit from where it went out and is hitting 4.
Player B -
Hits his drive 270 and it bounces into a creek. he can take the distance and is now just hitting 3.
Ben Crenshaw has been pretty vocal about changing the OB Rule and believes it is too harsh and slows the game down.
One example -
LINK
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Posted on 8/16/22 at 4:17 pm to bopper50
OB and a hazard aren't the same thing
Posted on 8/16/22 at 4:27 pm to bopper50
I agree. OB is awful. If you can find it, you should be able to play it.
Posted on 8/16/22 at 4:30 pm to bopper50
It's easily the OB/stroke and distance rule. It's stupid and everyone hates it. Everything should be played as a lateral hazard/red line, play it where it crossed the hazard and take a penalty drop.
Posted on 8/16/22 at 4:32 pm to EyeOfTheTiger311
If I’m just playing in a friendly game, we’ll play everything as a hazard.
Posted on 8/16/22 at 4:44 pm to EyeOfTheTiger311
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It's easily the OB/stroke and distance rule. It's stupid and everyone hates it. Everything should be played as a lateral hazard/red line, play it where it crossed the hazard and take a penalty drop.
I agree and that is Ben's point as well.
OB and Hazard play are both rules. Both are technically lost balls.
Posted on 8/16/22 at 5:01 pm to bopper50
Divots are ground under repair
Posted on 8/16/22 at 5:47 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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OB and a hazard aren't the same thing
No shite Sherlock. He’s saying that would be the rule he would change
Posted on 8/16/22 at 5:54 pm to bopper50
Having to play from a divot on the middle of the fairway needs to be changed.
OB... not sure, should know where OB is from the tee. Cool with local rules or friendly games playing as lateral hazard
OB... not sure, should know where OB is from the tee. Cool with local rules or friendly games playing as lateral hazard
Posted on 8/16/22 at 6:09 pm to Scottforeverlsu
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Having to play from a divot on the middle of the fairway needs to be changed.
100% agree
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OB... not sure, should know where OB is from the tee. Cool with local rules or friendly games playing as lateral hazard
I played a course recently that had all of the wooded areas that lined every hole red stakes. It was all played lateral
Posted on 8/16/22 at 6:14 pm to ell_13
Between this and the OB rule. I play a lot of courses that don’t have a ton of water so they line it with OB. I think it’s just to penalizing. The most simple rule change id make is what Ell said. Landing in a divot should result in a free drop.
Posted on 8/16/22 at 6:32 pm to ell_13
Highly agree. First change should easily be: if your mall lands in a divot, you can pick up/clean & place.
Posted on 8/16/22 at 6:37 pm to CoachChappy
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I played a course recently that had all of the wooded areas that lined every hole red stakes. It was all played lateral
That's the way Black Bear is in Delhi.
Posted on 8/16/22 at 6:42 pm to ell_13
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Divots are ground under repair
Yep, a player should never be penalized in anyway for hitting it in the fairway off the tee.
Posted on 8/16/22 at 7:30 pm to bopper50
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If you could change one rule in golf ( USGA/ R&A), what would it be.
Relief out of a divot in the fairway
Posted on 8/16/22 at 7:48 pm to bopper50
Currently, you can drop out of a bunker for 2 strokes.
It should be 1 stroke like all other hazards.
Only comes up when someone is buried under the lip, but I’ve dropped in the bunker.
It should be 1 stroke like all other hazards.
Only comes up when someone is buried under the lip, but I’ve dropped in the bunker.
Posted on 8/16/22 at 8:56 pm to bopper50
Lost ball is not a penalty when spotters aren’t present
Posted on 8/16/22 at 9:04 pm to Barrister
You still have to take a penalty. But it has to be known or reasonably certain what happened to it.
Posted on 8/16/22 at 9:13 pm to Barrister
OB was a rare boundary marker in early golf course design. The suburban real estate developers learned that they could make a lot more money by building golf courses in the middle of neighborhoods, and those people didn’t want golfers in their yards so now all of a sudden there’s OB on most of the holes, and a lot of those courses had skinny fairways to save on real estate. I actually think they should develop a new designation for private property hazard and let people get more than two clubs of relief to get them further from houses, and only 1 penalty strike.
Posted on 8/16/22 at 9:22 pm to ell_13
Definitely agree about changing the OB rule. The problem with changing the divot rule is that there are a lot of divots under various states of disrepair. So, anyone who doesn’t like his lie could argue that it’s an old divot.
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