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During the last few months, I’ve received a lot of really good rules questions. So, this edition of Mary’s Rules Corner is a Q&A list of some of those questions. I LOVE receiving your rules questions, so feel free to contact me any time a rules question comes up during your round. Q: If a…
When the rules of golf are your friend rather than a burden. Sometimes it seems the Rules of Golf are a burden….a little bad luck, an innocent mistake and BAM! You’re stuck taking one or two penalty strokes. But what’s important is that the more you know about the Rules of Golf, the more they…
Hello TPWGC! We’ve covered a variety of rules topics in the last 6 months or so. This month we are doing a Q&A. I’m going to provide answers to rules questions I’ve received on the fly recently. All different topics, so hold onto your hats, and away we go….. Taking Relief from a Sprinkler Head…
In my last Rules Corner, I addressed the Local Rule for relief from sprinkler heads around the putting green. In that discussion I mentioned “the General Area,” and I received the question, what is the General Area? USGA defines areas of the course this way: The Teeing Area of the hole being played All Penalty…
Model Local Rule F-5: Immovable Obstructions Close to Putting Greens I get a lot of questions about sprinkler heads around greens, so let’s talk about it! Any sprinkler head on the course is an immovable obstruction where you get free relief under Rule 16.1 as long as your ball is not in a Penalty Area.…
Hello TPWGC! Happy New Year, and to those of you that are new members at TPWGC, welcome!! I originally wrote the following article in October, but itturns out our Web Director, Laura Borja, becomes VERY busy at year end with new members, web updates, and much more. Therefore, we’ll plan on a year-end hiatus for Mary’s Rules Corner…
In July we talked in depth about Yellow Penalty Areas, this month we’re going to look at relief options from Red Penalty Areas
Mary’s Rules Corner Special Edition: Care of the course- smoothing bunkers Golf courses pulled the rakes from bunkers as part safety measures during the COVID19 pandemic. As a result, the USGA allowed club/courses to apply special local rules giving players free relief from “disturbed” areas of bunkers since players were not able to rake bunkers.…
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