The "so called committee"!
In all fairness Gary is quoting the rules as they are written down in the game of golf. Like it or lump it
I see that the problem is the enforcement of possible fair rulings by these "so called committees" on behalf of the average mere mortal, greens fees player. Whether it is a man power issue, time constraint issue, a dollar constraint issue, or even their lack of knowledge about reinforcement of these issues, whatever. They choose not to do their work fairly and properly when addressing these "on course issues" on behalf of greens fees players. Maybe the course members should complain.
Remember these are the same associates and owners that allow things like, sprinkers to be on in fairways and greens when "mere mortals" are trying to play this fair game of golf. Or greens keepers who keep changing holes while you are waiting to do your approach shot to the green. Of course they follow you around doing their assigned duty of changing the pins. Or the greens keepers leaving a "british open" pile of grass cuttings on the back of the green. Or cowboy marshals who take short cuts around a bend and end up suddenly facing you exactly as your teeing off. Greens keepers sitting there running their mower as your trying a tricky chip or how about that monster drive you hit only to find it sitting in the part of the fairway that looks like a cow pasture or a mud bowl. Conditions that should have been address months ago by this powerless or inactive committee.
Or how about the growning complaint of overbooking of courses, conditions that drain your energy, loose your concentration, and interupt your flow of this fair game. Let Tiger play a six and half hour round waiting at every tee box and see what he shoots. And I am sure that you guys can think of alot more "fair" conditions!.....and the pro's complain of a camera shutter going off...
I guess the point that I am trying to make is the type of conditions and the courses that the "pro's" play compared to us "mere mortal golfers" or "flogers" and the way the game and conditions are regulated compared to the "spoiled elite", is like comparing apples to oranges...Unfortunately we get alot more rotten fruit chucked our way when we are not the elite.
So remember next time your in a deep thick muddy tire rutt and you play your shot and you come out of the hole with a bogey or double bogey or what ever. Hold your head high knowing that you weren't spoon fed and you played the shot the best you could. Maybe Tiger would not have scored much better but more then likely he would have complained alot more...................to the commitee of course!
Stever
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