The Unplayable golf ball. Who gets to decide? We played a round at Eastwood Golf Course yesterday. It’s one of the more challenging and fun public courses we’ve discovered in the Fort Myers’ area. With lots of water and woods winding and dividing the fairways, accuracy plays a big part in a successful round, and landing a…
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Is This Golf Rule Even Legal?
The other day one of my golf buddies asked me about a golf rule that I could not answer. Her partner lost a hole in match play because he used a broken tee he found, and used it to tee up the ball on one of his drives. It seemed a pretty obscure rule and…
Tiger Misses Cut: What’s The Rule For An Embedded Golf Ball?
Tiger Woods just missed the cut during the tournament at this year’s Abu Dhabi Golf Championship. He was given a two stroke penalty when he mistakenly misunderstood the local rules for the course and took a free drop from an area that he thought caused his ball to be embedded. He was mistaken. So, what…
Water Hazard Golf: What’s The Rule When Your Ball Swims?
What’s the rule when your golf ball not only takes a dip in the pool but actually swims a full lap? I was playing a friendly game of golf yesterday, when my ball did just that. The course is a family run 9 hole par 3 on a property that had once been a small…
What’s Your Score When Someone “Steals” Your Golf Ball?
I was playing in a local league tournament the other day. Not a major tournament, just a simple inter-league competition. Not much money on the line. We were playing as teams of four against eight other teams of four. The game was one ball net, one ball gross, which means that for each hole the…
Playing By The Rules Of Golf And Why Ignorance Will Get You Nowhere
Want to take this game of golf seriously? Then you have to learn a few basic rules. I’m talking about the official rules of golf published by the USGA (United States Golf Association), not the local rules of a particular golf course. Those local rules are important too, but they often change depending on the…
