In the photo above, the lie is so predominant, it looks like a joke. It is not.
It actually happened on a recent tournament in which a friend of the labeling was competing.
Speak unfortunately. Tighten a car down the right road, and your ball not in a divot hole but IN Divot itself.
Not fair, right? But life is not always right. And it’s not golf.
Sometimes, you get what you get and you have no right to bother. At least, you have no right to do anything about it. The game instructions make this clear. According to the rule 9.1a, a “ball on the course rest while standing” should be played, unless the rules allow relief.
In the case of a displaced terrain flock, relief is not allowed.
The same is true if your ball is placed in a divot. Bad lie? Very bad. Some people think the rule should change. Among them: Bernhard Langer. In a 2022 interview with Golf.com, the elderly argued that “we have to leave the Divot” because “the Divot are made of us”.
Ex -transmitter tall Peter sounded takes a similar attitude.
“If a sand -filled divist is not on earth,” he once said, “then I don’t know what the words mean.”
The anti-argument says the change of order to allow the relief from the divots would lead the game down a slippery slope. What, exactly, qualifies as a divot? On this issue, the thought goes, some players would be forced to disagree. In just one matter of time, players would require relief for the smallest imperfections. And from there, anarchy!
labeling agrees. He believes the rule should remain as it is. But this does not mean that it must be implemented in every round we play.
To borrow from Bobby JonesThere are golf tournaments and regular golf, and they are not the same at all. Nor should they be treated identically. In regular golf, with our friends, we have to do our best to play according to the rules. But when simply ridiculous scenarios are born – like, for example, lies in the photo above – and there is no need to protect the field; The reason must prevail.
Can there be disagreements about what are considered funny? Of course, there may be. But in most cases, players playing in a casual match are capable of coming to a consensus. And when they cannot, they bring to the argument at the bar after the round, which is entertaining in itself.
If you are dead to avoid those types of disputes, your best bet is to set your match conditions before you start. Make it clear in the first thesis that no matter what happens, no matter how absurd you draw, you will play it as it stands.
This too has possible benefits, as you never know what can happen next. You can end up with a memorable story.
This is what happened to the boy the labeling mentioned above. Adhering to the rules, he played his approach from loose terrain topee and overthrew it into green from 185 yards abroad.
