2019 Golf Rule Changes

[jimandr]

Any other back pain/sciatica sufferers hate the drop from the knees rule?

After a close study of the rule, and particularly the sample illustrations on page 79 (I think) of the handbook, I believe there is a solution.

There is nothing in the rule that says you must be standing up straight, with both feet on the ground when dropping. The illustration shows the drop with one knee on the ground as acceptable. Therefore, I cannot see why you cannot sit in your cart with one leg on the ground, and drop the ball from that posture. My assumption is that almost everyone with back problems will use a cart anyway.

One of my playing partners was a guy in his 80's who had big problems dropping from knee height. We concluded that he could use his cart as support in order to comply with the rule.

My first game under the new rules. I forgot my stopwatch, to check the 3 minute search rule and the 40 second per shot rule. I reckon the group in front broke both time barriers multiple times.

Everybody, in any group I could see, was struggling with the knee high drop rule. Assessing knee height seems to be harder than it sounds. 3puttpete would have been proud of me for making my other playing partner redrop because he committed the heinous sin of dropping from about mid-thigh height.

Generally speaking we left the flag in until we were within 10 feet or so. A few times I gave up and left it in for my tap-ins.

My club is not playing the local rule for out of bounds. So there could be a few walks of shame still taking place.

[3Puttpete]

If you can’t manage to bend to get your hand to knee height, get TF off the golf course!

[henno]

If you can’t manage to bend to get your hand to knee height, get TF off the golf course!

I agree. I'd suggest taking up lawn bowls, but that also requires bending at the knee.

[timah!]

Can’t be that hard, can it?


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[3Puttpete]

Can’t be that hard, can it?


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It seems to have been for a bloke in Jim’s group who needed to lean on his cart in order to get his hand to knee height.

One can only assume he hits driver off the deck to begin each hole.

[AndyP]

Can’t be that hard, can it?

It looks like an exaggerated movement from that chick, unless you have to do it like that. My fingers are already down to mid-thigh, so it is only a small movement forward or sideways to get to knee height.

[henno]

It looks like an exaggerated movement from that chick, unless you have to do it like that. My fingers are already down to mid-thigh, so it is only a small movement forward or sideways to get to knee height.

I just measured my finger tips to knees and it's almost bang on six inches to the middle of my kneecap standing up as straight as I can. The slightest tilt left, right or forward with one arm reaches my knees so easily it is comical.

If you can't manage that, then you can't walk and need to be in a hospital and not a golf course.

[PerryGroves]

The guys in my group today all agreed we are going to ignore the dropping from knee height rule. I can't see the point in that one.

Having difficulty dropping or just trying to justify the above?

[Daves]

Short arms, long pockets. Every Club has them!

[jimandr]

If you can’t manage to bend to get your hand to knee height, get TF off the golf course!

You need to get out more, particularly with old blokes who love their golf and pay their fees three times a week.

When you are President of the AGU, you'll be in charge of a much smaller, and poorer organisation.

[Dotty]

I understand a picker-upper on the putter grip, and never marking a ball on the green (even though they would walk over peoples putting lines to putt out first).

But how do they get a tee in the ground, if they can't get a hand to knee height?

[3Puttpete]

You need to get out more, particularly with old blokes who love their golf and pay their fees three times a week.

When you are President of the AGU, you'll be in charge of a much smaller, and poorer organisation.

When I’m president the game won’t allow cheating because people are old.

[Yossarian]

If you can tee it up you can drop it from knee height surely.

[AndyP]

When I’m president the game won’t allow cheating because people are old.

I'd vote for you.

[Johnny Canuck]

I would average maybe 1 in about 3 rounds (marking another’s ball). Only if it was impeding my line and the player was raking a bunker etc.

All I have ever got is thankyou’s so maybe we are not so precious in SA


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That’s fine. I think we all do the same.

You made it sound as if it was something that happens multiple times a round, which is where I would take exception.

[hacker]

It is simple really

The rules don't state the point of the knee just knee height, so drop the ball from the top of your patella if you have trouble bending over and if you want to drop the ball as close to the ground as possible drop the ball from the bottom of your patella tendon both parts of the knee but a few centimeters apart.

[Daves]

Flag in worked well for us in the Black Marker yesterday. Basically stayed in till everyone was on the green, then came out and stayed out.

[Ferrins]

PeteyD caught me out dropping from my shoulder. That gave me the shits as I had a nice lie in a pretty narly area. Had to redrop 5 times from the knee before I got a similar lie. 😉

[3Puttpete]

I'd vote for you.

Golf clubs will only sell the 5 most popular beers in the country

[Grumpy8]

Just hit it down the middle won’t have to worry about too many drops then

[Webster]

Most of this discussion of the new rules is much ado about nothing, although does the new drop rule give an unfair advantage to those whose knees are closest to the ground?

[jimandr]

Most of this discussion of the new rules is much ado about nothing, although does the new drop rule give an unfair advantage to those whose knees are closest to the ground?

Finally, someone has realised the unfair advantage Mr Bluu will have over Courty.

Check out all the players taking drops at your course over the weekend. I reckon I saw 12 drops yesterday, and 6 of them were wrong, either too high, or in one case too low. That suggests it isn't as simple as it should be.

It both looks and feels stupid for a player to adopt the Thinker position in order to get a golf ball back into play (so I was told).

I'm looking forward to the first time a pro calls a rules official to supervise the drop because the player is scared he'll be judged to have dropped the ball from one inch above knee height. So much for speeding up play.

[AndyP]

How is it different to the shoulder height drop which could be dropped "inaccurately" too? Or from a different height for Courty or Bluu.

[3Puttpete]

I reckon I saw 12 drops yesterday, and 6 of them were wrong, either too high, or in one case too low. That suggests it isn't as simple as it should be.

I’d argue that suggests 6 of 12 people are stupid.

What part of the rule is confusing?

[3Puttpete]

Putting with the flag in worked well this morning. Usually the first to putt left it in until he holed out then took it out.