Dumb Rules

[Grass Roots Tour]

It seems to me there are a few dumb rules in this game. As they come to me ( memory stinks by the way) I'll try to put some to type. Add yours or disagree if you wish.

#1 Not being able to tap down spike marks

#2 Not allowing laser range finders

#3 Not allowing you to switch brand or type of golf ball on the tee of a new hole.

#4 And I still don't know why someone hasn't paid Tiffany Thiessen to caddie for me. :rolleyes:


I think this game is tough enough without some of these rules in place. Any thoughts?

[noback]

One off the top would be the provisional ball hit but not able to play rule.:rolleyes:
Say you hit your tee shot and it goes around an area where it could be perfect in the middle, but also could also be 2 yrds off target and in fescue ip to your waist. You hit provisional in case you cant find it.
After walking the 200 + yrds, you find your first ball but it's unplaybale and so is the 2 clubs lenghts around your ball. You decide to play a provisional but cant play the one already did because the one in your hand is in play and you have to pick up that first provisional and walk all the way to the tee and then hit another provisional.:nono:

[Grass Roots Tour]

Yeah... thats just dumb. Not to mention most people wouldn't know about it.

[Shadow]

It seems to me there are a few dumb rules in this game. As they come to me ( memory stinks by the way) I'll try to put some to type. Add yours or disagree if you wish.

#1 Not being able to tap down spike marks

#2 Not allowing laser range finders

#3 Not allowing you to switch brand or type of golf ball on the tee of a new hole.

#4 And I still don't know why someone hasn't paid Tiffany Thiessen to caddie for me. :rolleyes:


I think this game is tough enough without some of these rules in place. Any thoughts? #1 If this were permitted, rounds would take 8 hours instead of 5 1/2, and/or, some jokers would create a trough for their ball to follow to the hole.

#2 They are permitted in non tournament play.

#3. You can.

#4 Terrible rule

How about this one? I ask my fellow competitor to attend the flagstick while I make a long putt. He watches the ball approach the hole and does not pull the flagstck out. My ball hits the flagstick and I GET PENALIZED!!! From 1 under to 1 over in one quick dumb move. True story.

[Special_K]

Yeah spike mark rule is stupid! Just pat pat pat with the putter :)

I kinda don't like that standing on the line of the putt rule (the one where tiger nearly got nailed for). The way I see it, man, if somebody wants to putt like that, so be it... who cares?

[Grass Roots Tour]

Yeah spike mark rule is stupid! Just pat pat pat with the putter :)

I kinda don't like that standing on the line of the putt rule (the one where tiger nearly got nailed for). The way I see it, man, if somebody wants to putt like that, so be it... who cares?

There are a lot of club rules that don't make sense at all. I once saw a guy who made his own putter so he could putt with what would be the toe of the club but his was like 3" thick so the head was square instead of 1/2 moon like mallets. He set the putter down and with his right hand only he swung the putter back behind him and forward back in front of him (almost like bowling since this is hard to discribe). This club is obviously not legal but I just don't see why it would be illegal. Its certainly NOT any kind of advantage so again.... who cares.

[Grass Roots Tour]

I even heard the USGA is thinking of making long putters illegal and even some of the players who use them agreed. I tried these things and hated them. I even retry them once and again but still nothing. I just don't see any advantage in it. The only reason I revisit the wretched thing is to try and determine what people see in it.

[Special_K]

I even heard the USGA is thinking of making long putters illegal and even some of the players who use them agreed. I tried these things and hated them. I even retry them once and again but still nothing. I just don't see any advantage in it. The only reason I revisit the wretched thing is to try and determine what people see in it.
I didn't like it either GRT...but I think I had the wrong length. I don't know what's the "proper" length for a belly putter...but i mean, it makes sense. You can anchor the base to something and then swing it like a pendulum. It removes a lot of the variability in the putting stroke. I remember Ernie Els talking about it and he was saying the same things, about how under the pressure it's not fair to have such an aid.

I wonder if I actually got properly fitted for one will i like it?

[Greywolf]

#1 Not being able to tap down spike marks.
This one has always bugged me, the rest I can live with.

There is a local rule at some courses which I really dislike which concerns OB within the boundaries of the course. Some of you may have seen this where 2 holes are close together that they could pose a problem for other golfers getting hit by errant shots. I believe that OB should define the outside boundaries of the course and not holes within those boundaries.

[noback]

Yep. Seen that on a few courses here too. Seems not fair because of the layout of the holes or lack of enough land.:(

[Shadow]

This one has always bugged me, the rest I can live with.

There is a local rule at some courses which I really dislike which concerns OB within the boundaries of the course. Some of you may have seen this where 2 holes are close together that they could pose a problem for other golfers getting hit by errant shots. I believe that OB should define the outside boundaries of the course and not holes within those boundaries.Areas within the boundary of the golf course property that are OUT OF BOUNDS are usually declared so because of significant danger to other people. Practice ranges are obviously dangerous places from which to play a shot and if there is a dogleg that can be cut by playing over or down an adjacent fairway, it is not reasonable for the golfers playing the adjacent hole to have to be concerned about golfers aiming at them.

It's a good rule as most golfers are not armoured.:)

[Greywolf]

Areas within the boundary of the golf course property that are OUT OF BOUNDS are usually declared so because of significant danger to other people. Practice ranges are obviously dangerous places from which to play a shot and if there is a dogleg that can be cut by playing over or down an adjacent fairway, it is not reasonable for the golfers playing the adjacent hole to have to be concerned about golfers aiming at them.

It's a good rule as most golfers are not armoured.:)
I know the reason but places such as that within the course are not technically OB, perhaps they could have a local rule where a player could lift the ball and replace it to the rough on the hole they are supposed to be playing. In my opinion, a ball cannot be OB when it is still on the course, it is a dumb rule.:(

[Grass Roots Tour]

I know the reason but places such as that within the course are not technically OB, perhaps they could have a local rule where a player could lift the ball and replace it to the rough on the hole they are supposed to be playing. In my opinion, a ball cannot be OB when it is still on the course, it is a dumb rule.:(
Further to that, you are in bounds when you hit a ball across the road to another hole on the same golf course even though you crossed over OB and your lie is on another hole. You'll have to hit it over thr road again to get back to your origonal hole but yet your somehow not OB?

Dumb!

[Special_K]

Further to that, you are in bounds when you hit a ball across the road to another hole on the same golf course even though you crossed over OB and your lie is on another hole. You'll have to hit it over thr road again to get back to your origonal hole but yet your somehow not OB?

Dumb!
I didn't know this one! So basically, that little sliver of road is OB and you can hit over/around it?

[noback]

Yeah this one is amazing as on one hole at my old home course was like this. Hit it far enough to the right and it lands back in play and yet it was temporarily OB (in the air that is):rofl:

[Grass Roots Tour]

Yeah this one is amazing as on one hole at my old home course was like this. Hit it far enough to the right and it lands back in play and yet it was temporarily OB (in the air that is):rofl:

Yep, on my home course there are two holes that both run along opposite sides of the same road accross from one another whcih are 9 and 17. Number 10 from the black tees also hits accross that same road on purpose so you're OB off the tee until it lands and they put OB on the left side fo #10 all the way to the green.
There is OB on #'s 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 17. And none of these are on-course OB.