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roadway

  • 04-07-2010 8:09pm
    #1
    boredmeeting
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭


    hi there golfers, whats the ruling when a ball lands on a roadway do you have a free drop, or is it under local rules


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  • #2
    Trampas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,088 ✭✭✭Trampas


    I think local rules


  • #3
    irishtoffee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 622 ✭✭✭irishtoffee


    Local rules for paths and roadways.


  • #4
    G1032
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭G1032


    Yep, local rule. If they are an integral part of the course then play from them. Otherwise they'll be an immovable obstruction. Should say what they are on the back of the scorecard


  • #5
    boredmeeting
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭boredmeeting


    ronaldochokes wrote: »
    Yep, local rule. If they are an integral part of the course then play from them. Otherwise they'll be an immovable obstruction. Should say what they are on the back of the scorecard
    thats great, thanks for that.. how far do you drop off or can you go back as far as you like as long its not nearer the hole


  • #6
    Paulusmaximus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 391 ✭✭Paulusmaximus


    boredmeeting wrote: »
    thats great, thanks for that.. how far do you drop off or can you go back as far as you like as long its not nearer the hole
    The general rule for drops is one club length from nearest point of relief for free drops and two clublengths for penalty drops


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  • #7
    GreeBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,465 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    Note that the nearest point of relief is relief from the road. If this happens to put you under a bush then thats too bad, its not a get out of jail free card that entitles you to a clear shot.

    Also note that if you are taking relief then you must take full relief, ie. you cannot be drop and then be standing on the road. Same goes for GUR.


  • #8
    Johnny_Fontane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭Johnny_Fontane


    definitely local rule. I played off tarmacadam in clontarf gc the other day (to the right of the 16th fairway) and took a nice ding out of my 8 iron.
    Its ridiculous that you would have to play off it but thats the local rule


  • #9
    Daithio9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 494 ✭✭Daithio9


    boredmeeting wrote: »
    hi there golfers, whats the ruling when a ball lands on a roadway do you have a free drop, or is it under local rules
    Yes it's a rule of golf that you are entilted to free relief off all artifically surfaced roads and paths, although some places have a local rule in which they can be called "integral parts of the course" and as such you are not entiltled to free relief, the most notable of them being the 17th (also known as the "road hole") at St Andrews.


  • #10
    boredmeeting
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭boredmeeting


    so you can`t just pick the ball up and go back as far as you like to get a better shot in............


  • #11
    Jasonw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 496 ✭✭Jasonw


    nope. As Greebo quite rightly said, it's nearest point of relief, not nicest point of relief.


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  • #12
    boredmeeting
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭boredmeeting


    Jasonw wrote: »
    nope. As Greebo quite rightly said, it's nearest point of relief, not nicest point of relief.
    that`s lovely can collect my tenner now


  • #13
    Mr. Larson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Mr. Larson


    They changed this rule at my club due to people continuing to take liberties off paths. Now you have 2 choices when your ball is on a path.
    1. Play it as it lies
    2. Take a 1 stroke penalty and drop

    Harsh. Seems like a lazy option to me rather than education and enforcement.


  • #14
    Daithio9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 494 ✭✭Daithio9


    Jabberwocky wrote: »
    They changed this rule at my club due to people continuing to take liberties off paths. Now you have 2 choices when your ball is on a path.
    1. Play it as it lies
    2. Take a 1 stroke penalty and drop
    Harsh. Seems like a lazy option to me rather than education and enforcement.
    I agree it is the lazy option aswell as contrary to the rules of golf, I'd take it up with the committee if I was you, it used to be the case in our club that artifically surfaced areas were "intergral parts of the course" until a certain member brought it up numerous times at AGM's and eventually the powers that be conceded that they were wrong.


  • #15
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,039 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    I was playing golf with my brother 1 day and ended up on a path, so I say, I've relief, he said no that it was a integral part of the course, we were both members and didn't have a scorecard with us (I know I should know my own local rules), anyway, I hit my shot and get a big ding out of the club, he asks (while laughing) "what did you hit?", I said "your 7 iron", he wasn't happy :D


  • #16
    DonkeyPokerTour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 876 ✭✭✭DonkeyPokerTour


    Jabberwocky wrote: »
    They changed this rule at my club due to people continuing to take liberties off paths. Now you have 2 choices when your ball is on a path.
    1. Play it as it lies
    2. Take a 1 stroke penalty and drop

    Harsh. Seems like a lazy option to me rather than education and enforcement.

    You know what the problem was Jabber, the greenkeepers path to the left of the 6th fairway. The nearest point of relief was the middle of a gourse bush. So people were giving themselves free relief back to the otherside of the bush. The simple solution: Put in a drop zone. But no, the committee decides that "paths" are integral to the course. Genius I tells ya! Same with the Cabages on the side of the 13th, just make it simple Bank up the left hand side of the path at the 13th and make anything over that OB and that will spead things up no end and eliminate people taking a drop from the cabages into the dropzones which are for the path.


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