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Mr. Bean wrote: ↑

2:43 PM - Today

Thom wrote: ↑

3:52 AM - Today

Mr Bean
I'm interested in the life cycle of this rules question. Where did you source it?
I notice this precise question (differences so small as to be irrelevant)was posted on the USGA facebook rules discussion site by one Michele Frasca in the last 18 hours, is that you on a transgender day  ? Or per perhaps Michele just enjoys reading this site? I have no problem at all with people copying interesting questions across discussion sites. For golf rules questions, I've long thought plagiarism is the highest form of flattery. (Confession - I'm another who contributes to multiple sites with multiple pseudonyms - although it is virtually never that I would take a question from one site to another.)

Let me start from the very beginning. A week ago I was refereeing a 2-day competition of 50+ male golfers. Amongst the participants there were quite a few from my home club of which some were disqualified for mainly having played a wrong ball and failed to find the original, and decided to go home instead of returning to the tee.

Last Thursday I met two of the participants A and B (not the ones who were dq'd) on the range and A wanted to know some rules issues regarding the dq of one particular player C. Then B said that the situation would have been different if C had invoked preferred lies while playing that wrong ball. I said that was an interesting view and said I would get into it. I called on the spot to one of our esteemed referees as well as to another but wanted to throw the issue here as well, just to get the final decision, which I did.
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So, I am not Michele and I am not even on Facebook, so it cannot have been me.

statistics: Posted by Thom — 3:49 PM - Today