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In this video, Golf Monthly deputy editor Joel Tadman is joined by Rules of Golf expert Jeremy Ellwood to talk through the 7 rules of golf that have changed recently to make the game fairer and potentially save you shots! Sometimes it can feel like the rules are out to get you but there are situations where they can really work in your favour, as Joel and Jezz highlight in this video shot at the stunning Gog Magog Golf Club in Cambridgeshire.
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0:25 Ball hitting you or your equipment
1:21 Loose impediments in bunkers
3:06 Use of rangefinders
6:20 Unplayable lie in the bunker
4:52 Moving ball while searching
8:13 Double hit
9:24 Ball moving on the green
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14 Comments
How was that his fourth shot out that bunker ?
In there for 1, drop two, playing 3 or have I missed something?
8:12 was that intentional??? 😂 if yes, it is a penalty! 😂 But truly well done trick!! 👍
Only Jez could hit it off a tree back into his foot on purpose. Legend
With the acceptance of range finding devices, such as laser, watch GPS, and even apps, they've almost become required to get around the course, since most courses (at least the ones I play in Hawaii) are no longer using yardage markers on the course. Every course used to either mark distances on sprinkler heads or have yardage sticks on (or at the side of) fairways so you could at least estimate your distance. Now, I need to make sure I have extra batteries for my rangefinder, or I'm going to be stuck having to figure out my distances.
One of the options I might take when faced with an unplayable lie in the bunker would be to hit sideways, either out of the bunker or even to a better lie still in the bunker, playing my next shot (3), rather than taking relief outside the bunker to play 4. What would you say?
I also must commend both of you for your skills in creating the shots where Jez hit himself off the tree and your double hit. I wonder hot many takes those took you? 😆
All we now is the rule where we can move our ball out of a divot in the fairway. Seems like it keeps getting ignored and it's incredibly obvious. "FAIR" way.
If you are quoting rules, please state the actual rule number
Your own fairway divots … should be gur
The most inane rule still on the books is allowing NO relief from a fairway divot, a divot that might have been created by the group directly ahead of you. Meaning, no other player ahead of you would have had to hit out of it, quite obviously an unfair (dis)advantage. That is clearly ground under repair, as that, and all other divots, would be filled in and "repaired" by the grounds crew after the round. Absolutely ridiculous. If I stripe a drive 260 down the middle, I'll be damned if I'm going to hit out a hole that wasn't there as recently as 10 minutes beforehand.
You mentioned elevation and slope information not being allowable during competition. I'm assuming that if I am using a phone GPS yardage app that wind direction and speed is illegal during competition, but I would appreciate knowing for sure?
Excellent video. All good things to know so that using the rules can actually help you.
With the double-hit, do you still count it as 2 hits or does it count as 1?
When will the r&a listen to golfers and bring in a free drop from a fairway divot, so unfair that you are adversely affected by other players stupidity !!
Would there be a penalty for purposely NOT marking your ball in hopes that it might roll closer to the hole?
Why do you get penalised if your touches the sand with your club as it's classed as testing the surface and if you move a rake out of a bunker it's the same, yet you can wriggle you feet around which is basically the same testing of a surface but without penalty?