Get a Ruling • Re: Ground under repair

Thom wrote:

Doug wrote:

Thom wrote:

I presume you mean the part of the definition of GUR that states "the margin of GUR extends vertically downwards but not upwards"?

My little puzzle of the reference point for the drop remains in the situation where there is no point where the ball would cross the ground level margin of the GUR (which is possible because the tree rooted in the GUR has a significant part of its canopy outside the ground level GUR margins - the original post talking of 10 yards).  We still need an immediate solution for this (unusual) scenario.  Longer term we should probably sack whoever marked the course.

We don't don't know the ball didn't cross the margin as we don't know where it is. We must make an assumption. IMO of course.

Perhaps that is the case.  But we can envisage a case where that is not feasible.  On Chippings OP, canopy spread to 10yards+ from the ground level margin of the GUR, we can easily imagine a situation where there is no possible way the ball has crossed the ground level margin of the GUR on it's way to being lost KVC in the canopy:  picture a situation where that canopy is directly between the ball and the hole; the ball is close to the ground level GUR markings but those markings are not between the ball and the line to the hole - in fact the player is hitting away from the ground level GUR markings.  Shot hits a surface root in front on the ball and pops directly up into the canopy while staying on the line to the hole.  So in this situation, there is absolutely no doubt, the ball did not cross any ground level marking of the GUR, in fact it never got any closer to the GUR marking than where the shot was taken from.

How do we comply now with the rules?  R25-1c does not appear to give us an answer unless we can use the footprint of the canopy - nothing else in that rule applies.  This would seem to be yet another situation not contemplated by the Rules.  So perhaps we use R1-4 to point to the point of crossing the footprint of the canopy?  I can't come up with any other solution.

Statistics: Posted by Doug — Today, 07:41