Changes to the rules of golf

The thing about rangefinders is that the guy who spends five minutes fiddling with his Bushnell is either going to 1. spend zero minutes factoring in the wind and/or screw up his swing and still miss the green anyway or. 2. going to spend five minutes factoring in the wind and waggling four times and such and will hold up the entire course. No winners there.

 

I look at it as just another thing to weigh down my bag on the courses I walk. Where I use a cart (resort and development courses where the holes are half a mile apart). there's no need for one. Easy to use sprinkler heads and other markers. In reality, most golfers play the same course 90 percent of the time. They know the distances by heart.

 

Whatever happened to the poster The Rules of Golf?

 

Played with a GPS-enabled cart recently. Pretty neat--except when it slows you to a halt because you've gotten too close to the green.

 

Something similar at a par 5 at a course I played in Jersey. The sprinkler said "you only live once. Go for it!"

 

I got my father an Amazon gift card and he told he wants to buy a GPS device for golf courses that you wear on your hat. I think it is the Golf Buddy. It has a digital display and audio for distance to the green, middle, front, and back. It supposedly has 30,000 courses preprogrammed and you can store more. It is like one square inch and you can clip it to your hat, shirt or bag. When looking it up I saw what looked like versions of this in watch form, like mentioned before. Anybody know anything about it?

 

There was one I played YEARS and YEARS ago near Jackson, Mississippi, that read, "Get more club."

 

I have something similar - Voice Caddy. It's voice only and clips to the cap. The one I have gives yardage to the center of the green. That's all I need. I love the thing.

It's picked up every course I've been on. I showed it to a buddy of mine during a round and he picked one up before the next time we played.

 

I accidentally did this in one of our HS practice rounds. I picked up a DDH that I was 100% sure my teammate had not hit from the tee because it was impossibly far.

So all of us are looking for his ball.

On the van ride back home, he kept talking about losing his ball. Kept going on and on, and then said it was his prized DDH.

I waited a week to confess, and all I heard for the rest of the season was "you stole my DDH!"

 

Hit a provisional. Simple.

And for anybody who putts with the pin in, I hope your ball doinks off of it and doesn't go in.

 

Oh trust me, I can hit putts that don't go in without having to doink it off the pin.

 

When I play alone, I don't bother to pull the pin. When playing with others, it's routine. Don't even notice doing it.