Hi Folks , it's been a while since my last post but something happened to me the other day that made me stop and think about the many stupid and outdated rules there are in this great game.
I hit a tee shot of 250 yards with my 3 wood straight down the middle of the fairway and as i approached my ball imagine my horror to find that it had landed in the deepest divot that you can imagine. after my initial anger at the unknown person who failed to repair this terrible scar had subsided, i decided that my only decent shot from this would be a light wedge. the ball popped up really high and landed 10 yards from its original spot. my third shot put me on the green and two putts finished the hole.
normally i would par or birdy this hole but on this occasion had to settle for a bogie.
It seems a little unfair that a person can miss the fairway with a errant tee shot, land in a tyre track and claim relief and then a perfectly good , fairway splitting drive can land in an unrepaired divot but the ball must be played where it lies.
I know that the rules of golf exist to protect the golfer and not to penalise him, but on this occasion they fail to do so.
So this is the one rule i would change.
Merry Christmas all
Aft
