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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.

Friday, October 22, 2021

10/22/2021 - Balboa

It's been a while.  I've been playing a fair bit, I just haven't encountered anything interesting recently.  Until today.

With the volume of rounds being played these days, some tee boxes are really beat up these days.  On one particularly ugly tee box, I teed up 4-5 feet behind the markers where there was a lot more grass.  One member of our foursome asked if that was legal.  It is.  The teeing area is defined as the area two club lengths back from the markers.  And you'll remember that "club length" means driver, or your longest club that's not your putter.  Most drivers are just under four feet (unless you're Bryson DeChambeau or Phil Mickelson), so you have almost 8 feet back.

We mostly have our rakes back in San Diego, but people seem to have forgotten how to use them.  Not sure why we don't have the ball washers or trash cans back yet.  Pretty sure neither of those made any contribution to the spread of covid whatsoever.

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