It’s hard to play golf without encountering obstructions.
Have you ever just barely missed hitting your ball out of bounds, only to find that you’re now obstructed by an out of bounds stake? Well, that’s too bad because they’re not considered obstructions. (You weren’t fooled, right?)
So what are obstructions?
Rule 24 tells us all about obstructions. According to the Rules of Golf, an obstruction is anything artificial, except:
Objects defining out of bounds, such as walls, fences, stakes and [...]
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Grooves on the faces of our golf clubs are something that we might take for granted.
With irons, especially wedges, the grooves help put spin on the ball when it is struck. This allows us to hit shots into greens that stop in a controlled manner.
When we strike the ball with a descending blow with an iron, the ball becomes briefly trapped against the turf and is “pinched”. The grooves on the club grab the cover of the ball [...]
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I’m a total rules geek. I like to do the occasional post about the Rules of Golf, but it can get dry at times. I thought it might be fun to do a little rules quiz to liven things up.
Those of you who are USGA members might be familiar with the ridiculously difficult Rules of Golf quiz they print every year. My quizzes will be much easier and will cover the basics to help you learn and [...]
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Many people think of golf as a game where you go out, play the holes, add up your score and that’s it. But there are many different types of play and scoring systems that add some flavor to the game. Some are derived from the rules of golf, some are alternatives to standard stroke tabulation, and some seem to exist just for betting.
The Basics
The rules of golf define both match play and stroke play, where match play is [...]
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We’ve all been there. What a bad feeling. Especially when it looked like it was a good shot. Bad breaks sometimes leave us under a bush, against a tree, or in rough deep enough to lose a child.
Lucky for us, Rule 28 covers situations where the ball is unplayable. It is completely up to the player’s discretion when to declare a ball unplayable.
Before declaring a ball unplayable, you should carefully consider why the ball is unplayable. [...]
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