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My name is Nick Doran, and I am the former president of the UCSD Casual Golf Club.

I am going to post rules decisions as I encounter them on the golf course. I am pretty sure that I will be able to come up with at least one rule nugget for each round that I play.

Saturday, March 9, 2019

3/9/2019 - The Golf Club of California

Our club has adopted a couple of the optional local rules for 2019, and this was the first tournament that they were in effect.

One is the two-stroke penalty for a lost ball or OB, rather than stroke and distance.  I think this is a great rule for pace of play.  It was not utilized in our foursome.

The other one is a max score of 9 on any hole.  This is another one that I think is great for pace of play.  There were a couple of new players in our foursome, so this was utilized a number of times.  I had a legit 9.  I would like to not utilize this new local rule, but I'm glad it's there.

We have also had a local rule for quite some time that treats unpaved cart paths the same as paved cart paths (free relief)  That is a good local rule for this course, as a lot of the cart paths are dirt.  That one didn't come into play for us this round.

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