I think we need to investigate the USGAA for this ruling. Take a look. So, you’re playing pinehurst number two. You give this birdie putt a little too much juice and now you’re standing there helplessly watching as Donald Ross slowly escorts your ball off the putting green and into the bottom of a deep greenside bunker. Now you have a decision to make because this bunker shot has no margin for error. If you played it as it lies, the slightest misstep to a big number on the scorecard. So, if you don’t like your chances of getting up and down for bogey, you might be better off taking stroke and distance, which is something you’re always allowed to do at any time. And since your last stroke was from the putting green, you actually get to place the ball right back where you started for one penalty stroke. Now, you have a guaranteed putt for bogey with the added bonus of knowing exactly what it does. There is absolutely no way that this should be a legal rule. You’re telling me that if I putt it off the green, I can just take a stroke and then hit it again. So, if I’m on in two and I miss the putt and I go long, I can just take a stroke and be putting for bogey. I don’t think this is this is rule. I thought that under the rules it had to be a lost ball or an unplayable condition or you hit it out of bounds or something like that. This rule is ridiculous and I don’t particularly care for it. USGA, what do you think about this rule and will you be utilizing it? because to the video’s credit, guy steps up and makes the putt at the end of it.
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