I played (poorly) in the SCGA Tournament of Club Champions. I started out with a 12, but it got better from there.
I had two interesting rules conversations. The first with with an SCGA rules official while we were waiting on a tee box. I referred to a hole we had already played (#17). There was a bunker behind the green, and it just kind of faded into a waste area. I asked the rules official what the demarcation between the bunker and the waste area was. He answered honestly - He wasn't sure, but he would find out. When I turned in my scorecard, they had an answer for me.... Sort of. He said that it was not clearly marked, and that if they had called for a ruling, they would have ruled based on the area of the bunker that had been groomed. I thought that was interesting.
The other was a conversation regarding the "drive of shame" (driving back to the tee box after not finding your drive, and not hitting a provisional). I mentioned that our group had our group had to do it two or three times. Another participant whom I was eating lunch with indicated that they had used the Local Rule on the card referencing Desert Area Options. According to the scorecard, you could either play the ball as it lies, or take a one stroke penalty and go to the fairway. But that means that you found the ball. I think that group mis-applied the local rule. Ooops...
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