This genius use of the stroke rule in the brain and in the distance is seen 2.4 million times

I will never forget it The first time I played Pinehurst Nr. 2.

It was within the first month of my employment on Golf.com, and I was sent to cover the USGA annual meeting in the cradle of American Golf. One of the benefits of this task: a round in the famous course no. 2.

I was using rental clubs, but I managed to make money in the opening hole with relative ease. “This course is not that difficult,” I thought. I couldn’t have been the most wrong.

Despite a short regular game developed in my youth, I stood no chance against Donald Ross’s green diabolical complexes. I did not keep the detailed statistics that day, but if I were to sure it would have shown a worse day career with flastick. Such is life in Pinehurst no. 2.

One of the (many) mistakes I made that day was a hit hit hitting in front of the pin and out of the green in a bunker. What first seemed like a strong chance of birds, instead turned into an embarrassing clash just to save double.

But it turns out that walking back into my sand wedge bag after I didn’t leave the green was not necessarily needed. In fact, if I had known the regulation a little better, I could not only have saved my face but also shave a few strokes.

The video below from USA explains how.

How to set the stroke and distance rule to work

Putting green on a bunker is not only embarrassing, but it can also make a number in your outcome. If you are something like me, one up and down from the sand-especially to the pinhurst-it is everything but guaranteed.

Enter the regulation, which you use to your advantage in this situation.

By Rule 18.1 of golf rules, “At any time, a player can take relief in the stroke and distance by adding a penalty kick and playing the original ball or another ball from where the previous blow was made.” The main phrase here is at any time – and includes when your ball is in green placement.

In the situation described above, this means that instead of hitting your next goal from the bunker, you can decide to get a stroke and distance for a penalty with a stroke and play your next blow from where you hit your fortune.

For most recreation players there, this opportunity will be very much preferred. Instead of trying to get up and down from the bunker-endangering a poor blow that leaves the ball in the sand will be able to take the penalty kick and hit their next stroke from the surface of the placement.

Not only will you save you the embarrassment of walking again in the cart to grab a sand wedge, but it will save you some strokes.

Judging by Comments about the videowhich for this writing was seen 2.4 million times, I was not the only one who was unaware of this cunning use of rule 18.1.

“This may not be true,” replied one commenter.

“So basically a 1 stroke mill. At any time?” wrote another.

Singer Javier Colon, who won the first season of “The Voice”, also weighed. “Wait … what !!!”? “Colon wrote.” So if I’m deciding for Birdie and she goes to the bunker, I can remove it and do to make bogey from the same original place!?! Is this truth!? “

It’s true, Javier!

She says right there in the Book of Rules.

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