TripleBogieTim
Long lost sheep
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The current rules, as they stand, do not fit the modern game. Some, not all, should be readjusted. I don't think they are hurting the game but the lack of knowledge of the rules is. I know very few people that know the rules. They all know a version of a portion of the rule.
A good example is the red hazard rule. Most know two of the several option available when you do hit it the hazard. That is because there is no need to learn them as an average amateur. You can walk into any store buy a game and go play. Make it up as you go. The scary thing is that you will run into more than one person that shares the same version of the wrong rule.
So the Rules as we know them are not hurting the game but lack of knowledge is.
I would agree with this completely...most people don't know what all their options are in most cases...I play with guys all the time that lose a ball in an area not deemed a hazard and they don't understand the rule for a lost ball not in a hazard is stroke and distance...you must add one stroke and play the next shot from the spot that the last ball was hit.
Most guys I play with just drop a ball at the last point the ball was seen...which is fine for recreational play to keep up the pace, but incorrect according to the rules.
As you said most dont understand why one hazard is marked red and one marked yellow and what their options are when the come to rest in one of those hazards.
The biggest mistake I see when making drops when a ball goes into a hazard is everyone uses the flight of the ball to determine where they can drop when it's actually a line from the pin to the point the ball crossed the line of the hazard that you use.