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Rotating ball marker5 comments

John wrote 1 week ago: In a comment in the About section, Erik wrote: I have a rules question that’s caused disagreem … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, Rule 18-2a, Rule 20-1

New Decision 30-3f/132 comments

John wrote 1 week ago: This decision is very appropriate considering the previous post on Kenny Perry and JB Holmes at the … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, New rules, Rule 14-2, Rule 30-3f, Rule 33-1

Shark Shootout Scramble1 comment

John wrote 2 weeks ago: Watching the Shark Shootout today I saw something pretty silly.  When JB Holmes was putting, his cad … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, Rule 14-2

New Decision 13-4/0.71 comment

John wrote 2 weeks ago: Decision 13-4/0.7 – Player Rakes Bunker When Ball Lies in Another Bunker is the Stewart Cink d … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, New rules, Rule 13-4

Conflicting Stories2 comments

John wrote 1 month ago: This past weekend at the NCGA Junior Tour’s Tour Championship we had two examples of conflicti … more →

Altered Lie in a water hazard

John wrote 2 months ago: During the play of the 18th hole in the second round of match play at the US Mid-Amateur, a player h … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, Rule 20-3b

Remembering to be virtually certain3 comments

John wrote 2 months ago: During the first round of stroke play at this year’s US Mid-Amateur, I was assigned to work on … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, Officiating Experiences, known or virtually certain, Rule 26

Practice - We're talking about Practice1 comment

John wrote 3 months ago: An interesting question was asked today.  This coming weekend, the NCGA Junior Tour is playing at th … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, Practice, Rule 7-1

Getting the scorecard right

John wrote 3 months ago: Over the last two weeks of the NCGA Junior Tour, we’ve had two players get their scorecards wr … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, Officiating Experiences, Rule 6-6d

Dropping zone and balls rolling forward

John wrote 3 months ago: Watching the European Tour this morning, Brett Rumford dropped a ball in a dropping zone when taking … more →

Tags: dropping zone

Dear ExUSGA member8 comments

John wrote 3 months ago: In the comments for my blog post in reply to Peter Kostis you state: The group had caught up by hole … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, Pace of Play

Jim Furyk penalized for too many clubs4 comments

John wrote 4 months ago: Jim Furyk was penalized a total of four strokes on Saturday for having 15 clubs in his bag.  He had … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, Rule 4-4

Notes from the Barclays

John wrote 4 months ago: Steve Flesch got disqualified today for accidentally signing for a wrong score.  He made a par on th … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, Rule 4-4, Rule 6-6d

Peter Kostis on Slow Play at US Amateur9 comments

John wrote 4 months ago: In response to a post from Geoff Shackelford about the slow play penalty that Tim Jackson received d … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, Officiating Experiences, Tournaments, Pace of Play, Rule 6-7

Tough Ruling at US Amateur2 comments

John wrote 4 months ago: During Monday’s first round of stroke play, a player got a very tough, but correct ruling.  He … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, Rule 18-2

Pace at US Amateur4 comments

John wrote 4 months ago: Yesterday 8 players received one stroke penalties for pace of play violations. At least 12 groups go … more →

Tags: Officiating Experiences, Pace of Play

A Wie rules controversy again3 comments

John wrote 4 months ago: Michelle Wie seems to be able to get in the middle of rules controversies even when it isn’t h … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, Rule 25-1, Ground Under Repair

Azinger disqualified at Travelers1 comment

John wrote 6 months ago: Paul Azinger was disqualified from the Traveler’s Championship after shooting a first round 68 … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, rule 5

Too many clubs at NCAA Championship4 comments

John wrote 7 months ago: In the first round matchup between Georgia and Oklahoma State, Adam Mitchell was 5 up on the 8th hol … more →

Tags: Basic Rules, Rule 4-4, Rule 34-1


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