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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.

Sunday, March 8, 2020

3/7/2020 - Steele Canyon

I often hear people that there's a 2-putt max rule in effect on punched greens.  Sorry, no.

The definition of Ground Under Repair explicitly does not include aeration holes.

Rule #13 (Putting Greens) explicitly lists aeration holes as not "damage" that can be repaired.

In fact, without a local rule in place, you don't even get relief when your ball is in an aeration hole.  Model Local Rule E-4 allows you to take a ball out of an aeration hole on the green, but it does not give relief from aeration holes in the line of your putt.

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