Tuesday, June 19, 2007
US Open Rules
Mr Science - an afficianado of Golf Rules, and generally a stickler for those rules, in a Calvinistic Way, if you know what I mean -- reports this local rule in effect at Oakmont:
A ball that crosses and comes to rest beyond the Pennsylvania Turnpike is out of bounds, even though it may lie on another part of the course.
There's many a time, on rural courses, where I have played a ball from a lie inadequately marked as OB, from across a road back onto the course, at Bear Creek, in Houston, in particular, but I think this is an underutilized principle of golf-course-design that could enable the placement of courses into tighter confines, within acreages previously disdained as too fragmentary and small.
A ball that crosses and comes to rest beyond the Pennsylvania Turnpike is out of bounds, even though it may lie on another part of the course.
There's many a time, on rural courses, where I have played a ball from a lie inadequately marked as OB, from across a road back onto the course, at Bear Creek, in Houston, in particular, but I think this is an underutilized principle of golf-course-design that could enable the placement of courses into tighter confines, within acreages previously disdained as too fragmentary and small.
