Is this The Worst Rule in Golf? When you hit the fairway, you can expect a good lie, but sometimes your ball ends up in someone else’s divot. Should you get a free drop from this position? The Rules of Golf state that you must play the ball as it lies, but is this unfair?
Let’s talk golf with Mark Crossfield, golf professional.
25 Comments
My boyfriend tried to repeat the trick from this video, and now we have a new plan to not try again✨
I showed this video to my friend and now her boyfriend wants to try it too. Waiting for the report👅
My idea of a wild night now involves staying up past midnight to binge-watch a new series on Netflix. Who needs candlelit dinners when you have cliffhangers and popcorn🔥
Donald Trump it! Leather wedge all day long.
Worst rule in golf. Needs to change
Should you? Yes. Will you? Nope. Worst rule in golf
Can you imagine how many times the referee will be called to adjudicate,the game is slow enough as it is,just get on with it.
Yes, no, no, get fucked you're in the rough 😅
The argument about what is and isn't a divot is dumb though from the idiots that make the rules. If you cant tell what a divot is you've never golfed. Its very easy to define. Just have it so that all playing partners have to approve and be done with it. (Question 1). If they worry about cheating and people bending the rules, news flash they already do regardless of rules.
No relief. At least for anything serious. You go play with your buddies, make your own local rule. We play a real event, everybody deals with it. Learn to hit from divots.
If you’re in a grassy area and your ball is on non-grass in that area which is man made, you should get relief. If it was intended to be the rough then you should hit from the rough, not a patch of mud.
In the fairway only, it must be physically bair ground.
100%! It's definitely the worst rule in golf
No and nope
Given that it’s therefore impossible to define a divot, what you’d be advocating for is allowing placing on the fairway in all circumstances.
No I think you should play as it lies that's the game of golf 😊
Just hire sand bucket kids to fill them in as they happen. PGA could certainly afford to pay them.
As for normal play just move it, it’s not that important in the grand scheme of life.
No to all.
Answers Yes Yes No No
I say leave it as it is. Will just cause more debates on the rule.
Yes I don't understand why not. How does it benefit or protect the course by not
Penalty to players that don't replace diverts. That would be fairer
Fix your divot!! Problem solved!!
Relief in the fairway from a divot is a yes for me. Needs to be agreed with partner same as it is for other rules eg to define what is and isn't the nearest point of relief, what is and isn't an animal hole/mole hill etc. Loads or rules that need to be interpreted with help from playing partner so I don't see this as any different. In the rough, forget it. You're playing it as it is
Play it as it lies. In a tournament. Playing casually do whatever in the hell you want to.
Easy fix. Lift clean and place on fairway for everyone tournaments the lot. Off fairway play as it lies!!!