Nick O’Hern and Mark Allen are back live on Tuesday January 16 with the first Talk Birdie To Me podcast for 2024. Until then we’re replaying some of the Top 5’s and Masterclasses that you particularly engaged with throughout the last 12 months or so.
This one from Mark Allen, the Top 5 worst rules in golf history.
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Talk birdie to me with niiko Hearn and Mark Allen is back live on Tuesday January 16 and it wouldn’t happen without our great mates of ping you can see your local golf pro for a ping Club fitting it’s a great experience you’ll love it just ask Nick ohun he did it a
Couple months ago and still Raves about it and the golf clearance outlet you’re looking for a great price on great Gear Well that’s exactly what you’ll get Nick and Mark had a lot of fun with the top fives over the last year or so well to
Be fair they might have had the odd top six or even top 10 but most top fives let’s revisit this One they’re doing the top five Nikki it’s my turn as well so last week yes it’s your rules one isn’t it yeah go go for I’m going to I’m very curious about this so this is the worst rules in golf history okay so a lot of rules have been
Changed but I’m going to go I I’ve already gone back in history and checked them out and number five on my list was the old stymy roll what an absolute joke that you couldn’t Mark your ball and somebody who was right if your ball if your opponent’s
Ball is in the way they had to go go around your ball or they had to jump the ball with a N9 or something absolutely ridiculous yeah but this is before our time though I would imagine I’ve never had to play it I actually would have enjoyed playing match play that way that
Would have been a bit of fun would you have beaten tiger a couple of times if uh can you oh definitely yeah probably would him three times I might have even won by more number four who was the guy who said we should drop the ball over our shoulder I would
Mind slapping that like around I mean seriously what are you what I mean I I can remember when I first start playing golf I had to drop the ball over my shoulder I hit my heel every once in a while we skin away it’s a stupid rule
All right now this one I was close to putting this at number one but I’ve resisted local rule here a local Rule and many clubs do it it breakes in bunkers please can we just get some kind of a movement going around the world where you do not leave the rake in the
Bunker there is nothing worse than someone rakes it they’ve walked out the wrong way they’ve put the rake all the way up the face of the bunker you’re the next group to play and your ball rests against that and you’ve got to move the rake and then put the ball back
Somehow a disgrace no I I agree with you on that one the other thing is when you Rake The Bunker a lot of people just throw the rake back in and all of sudden it leaves a bigger Mark than what they first had in there so yep totally agree
Just get the rakes out of the bunkers please number two this is inspired by your wife uh Nick mud balls and I mean that the nicest possible way oh so we’re talking about when you get some mud on your golf ball when you get some mud on
The golf ball hello Alana that sounded bad but it was it wasn’t meant to be when you’re playing golf and there’s mud on the golf ball you should be allowed to wipe that off because that is like playing lawn balls the bias on the ball actually throws it off million miles
Only in the Fairway I’m with you but if there is mud on the ball and and it’s a big chunk of mud you should be able to take that off it should be a l and by the way clubs committees you can make it
A local rule if you like yeah but at the same time how much is enough right it’s it’s like I’m not sure what your number one is but I don’t know if it’s the divot rule you know if you go in a divot on a fairway a lot of people complain
About that but what con a divot is it a slight depression is it an old divot a new divot I mean it’s the same with mud so I’m not sure about that one but uh yeah I wish i’ had the rule today cuz it would have helped me and my number one
And and you’re right it’s it’s not the ball in a divot I mean thankfully hopefully that rule will never be changed cuz you’ve got to learn how to hit a golf ball out of a divit if you want to call yourself a golfer but my number one
Rule that is was completely stupid cuz it’s been changed Once Upon a Time you could put your putter down behind a golf ball on a putting green and if that ball moved even if you didn’t touch it you would deem to have made it move and it
Was a one shot penalty if you moved it back and a two- shot penalty if you did not and that was the stupidest rule in golf and thankfully it has been changed it’s only been changed in like the last 5 years isn’t it only two years ago
Maybe I don’t know how recent it was but no I I I totally agree with you on that one that that’s a good one what what do you how do you feel about patting down Spike marks and all that now yeah I don’t mind them actually well no one’s
Wearing metal spikes anymore so I’m very happy that you could tap down the oh yeah on the PGA tour yeah PGA Tour yeah so those guys are happy so are you allowed to wear spikes I’ll give you a few tours Nick because you’ll know this so te you are allowed to wear metal
Spikes on the PGA tour DP World Tour are you allowed to wear spikes austral Asian tour I assume so I don’t think you are I don’t know I don’t think okay when tiger comes down to see where no he’s not a spikes guy anymore while he’s still
Wearing the foot Joys rather than the Nikes remember that’s right that’s right that’s right so that’s my top five if I have missed any rules that are so stupid in this game that you want to change them just get in contact with us on our socials and there’s a half a chance
We’re going to read them out now tweets to the Editor niiko Hearn and Mark Allen they’re back on Tuesday January 16th for another big year of Talk Birdy toi I’ll see you [Applause] then
