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Not a golf player, but I'm married to one; my wife was saying that this is exactly the sort of crap that is causing the game of golf to die out.  The anal retentive adhesion to arcane rules and penalizing people for stuff that is beyond their control is just asinine.

BC

imo, slow play is killing golf, not arcane rules. unless you tee it up in a competition, these rules exist but more in the abstract.

the USGA ruling yesterday was in "d-u-m" dumb category.  not the first time for USGA, but it was poor precedent on a relatively new rule meant to avoid such situations.

on the earlier comments, Oakmont members do like their greens kept very quick.  I have played it in competition when you could not land your approach on the green on #1 and keep it on the green.  granted that was due to a combination of firmness and speed (stimp), but there it is.  having played Augusta not long after the Masters, I'd put Oakmont equal to or faster on green speed.

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Not a golf player, but I'm married to one; my wife was saying that this is exactly the sort of crap that is causing the game of golf to die out.  The anal retentive adhesion to arcane rules and penalizing people for stuff that is beyond their control is just asinine.

BC

imo, slow play is killing golf, not arcane rules. unless you tee it up in a competition, these rules exist but more in the abstract.

the USGA ruling yesterday was in "d-u-m" dumb category.  not the first time for USGA, but it was poor precedent on a relatively new rule meant to avoid such situations.

on the earlier comments, Oakmont members do like their greens kept very quick.  I have played it in competition when you could not land your approach on the green on #1 and keep it on the green.  granted that was due to a combination of firmness and speed (stimp), but there it is.  having played Augusta not long after the Masters, I'd put Oakmont equal to or faster on green speed.