Sung to the tune of “Take Me Out To the Ballgame”
Take me out to the golf course
Take me out to play golf
Slice it or hook it, it’s all in my head
I don’t know if I should get out of my bed
So it’s root, root, root for the lost ball
I hit it in the high gorse
And it’s one, two, three putts for eight
At the old golf course
Oh yeah, you are in that nice bunker next to the hole, and you know you are definitely going to skull it out and skip it over the green. what to do? Play Kronbrostm golf! Follow along as we read rule 16.1 – Abnormal course conditions:
This Rule covers free relief that is allowed from interference by animal holes, ground under repair, immovable obstructions or temporary water.
These are collectively called abnormal course conditions, but each has a separate Definition.
Interference exists when any one of these is true:
There is no free relief from an abnormal course condition when the abnormal course condition is out of bounds or your ball is in a penalty area.
Okay, so let’s read this the Kronbros way. Did someone forget to rake the bunker? Hell, that can be considered “ground under repair!” Does the bunker look even a little like a badger went wild there? That’s an animal hole if I ever saw one! Did it rain the night before? Look carefully, don’t you see standing water? Soaked into the sand? Yeah, buddy!
Oh let’s take this a little farther. Are you playing on a beach in Florida? No? then where did all that sand come from? They dug that hole deliberately, and trucked in a ton of sand just to mess with you! Now that’s an abnormal course condition!
Free relief! Take that ball and drop it on soem nice grass next to it, and do your chip and putt, the Kronbros way!
“Practice is for losers” – John Daly*
You skip breakfast to arrive an hour early, get a bucket of balls, and proceed to spray them around the course, never even getting close to a target. You are already frustrated when you get to the putting green, so every ball rims out. Now, you have to play eighteen holes, and you are already cursing like your grandma before she walks into the confessional. Why? why? WHY???
No, instead, you have a nice breakfast at Angie’s, you know, a couple of eggs over easy, bacon and toast, with a side of hash browns and some good coffee, then arrive just in time to head to the first hole. If you are smart, you arrive about 3 minutes before tee time, and your buddies who got worried about you went ahead and paid your greens fees, and you don’t have “any cash” on you! Free golf!
*It is not known if John Daly ever said this or anything like this, in fact, he probably practices as assiduously as any other professional golfer and would probably know a few good coaches for you to see. It just sounds like something he would say. -the editors
I suppose before we start interpreting the rules of golf, we have to have some to interpret. The rules we chose to interpret are the USGA Rules of Golf