- Joined
- Mar 25, 2014
- Location
- Miami, Florida
- HCP
- Old Age
- Local club/country
- Killian Greens Golf Club
- Irons
- MX-1000
- Driver
- ST-180
During a commercial break from the U.S. Open yesterday, I saw a short feature about the newly suggested rule having to do with taking a drop.
Does anyone else find it really strange that there are so many varied ways to drop being suggested? The idea was to simplify the rule, but instead, I think they've made it more complicated by virtue of so many choices.
For the life of me, I can't understand what was wrong with the rule as it was, to hold the ball at shoulder height and drop it without letting it roll off your hand, with the accompanying stuff about where it rolls, closer to the hole or farther than a club lengh, etc.
If you are allowed to drop a ball from 2" above the ground, do you really think anyone is going to take much chance of the ball rolling into a bad lie by dropping it from their shoulder if they think they can drop it so gently they can drop it into a good lie?
Some of the suggested new rules make a lot of sense, but I feel like this is a case of if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Does anyone else find it really strange that there are so many varied ways to drop being suggested? The idea was to simplify the rule, but instead, I think they've made it more complicated by virtue of so many choices.
For the life of me, I can't understand what was wrong with the rule as it was, to hold the ball at shoulder height and drop it without letting it roll off your hand, with the accompanying stuff about where it rolls, closer to the hole or farther than a club lengh, etc.
If you are allowed to drop a ball from 2" above the ground, do you really think anyone is going to take much chance of the ball rolling into a bad lie by dropping it from their shoulder if they think they can drop it so gently they can drop it into a good lie?
Some of the suggested new rules make a lot of sense, but I feel like this is a case of if it ain't broke, don't fix it.