bigvivec
Banned
Run through lines…anyone aware of them?
A pet peeve of mine when I actually do play with other people…walking on my run through line…that being the line that extends on the other side of the hole for a minimum of 5 feet directly on the line of my putt including consideration for the break…while most take consideration not to step on playing partner’s lines as the balls on the green lay in relation to the holes, a suprising amount never consider the run through or second putt and will walk to their ball right across the back side of the hole rather than skirting the green and entering in such a way so that unless a putt is shanked the chosen path will not come into play…anyway, it’s my cross to bear and it’s not something that I mention when playing with strangers as the concept takes more time to explain than I’d care to, but the better players I play with are aware and never go near the cup save for marking their ball and when doing so usually enter on their putting line from the rear of the ball unless their ball is on someone else’s line and then the process of marking the ball looks a little like a mission impossible bit where the player (or caddy as the case may be) looks as if they’re tiptoeing down a corridor of alarm lasers, ever mindful of the lines of the other players…
I take it as a sign of either ignorance (as in not knowing the etiquette) or general lack of awareness, but it’s a peeve all the same…
…now if they walk through my run through on the way to repairing their pitch mark as well as a few others, all is in balance and IMO they’ve done their penance at that point…
A pet peeve of mine when I actually do play with other people…walking on my run through line…that being the line that extends on the other side of the hole for a minimum of 5 feet directly on the line of my putt including consideration for the break…while most take consideration not to step on playing partner’s lines as the balls on the green lay in relation to the holes, a suprising amount never consider the run through or second putt and will walk to their ball right across the back side of the hole rather than skirting the green and entering in such a way so that unless a putt is shanked the chosen path will not come into play…anyway, it’s my cross to bear and it’s not something that I mention when playing with strangers as the concept takes more time to explain than I’d care to, but the better players I play with are aware and never go near the cup save for marking their ball and when doing so usually enter on their putting line from the rear of the ball unless their ball is on someone else’s line and then the process of marking the ball looks a little like a mission impossible bit where the player (or caddy as the case may be) looks as if they’re tiptoeing down a corridor of alarm lasers, ever mindful of the lines of the other players…
I take it as a sign of either ignorance (as in not knowing the etiquette) or general lack of awareness, but it’s a peeve all the same…
…now if they walk through my run through on the way to repairing their pitch mark as well as a few others, all is in balance and IMO they’ve done their penance at that point…