Respectfully Submitted, Foremost

1. Facts (Ball Hits Golf Bag) In match play competition, Reader BE bladed a greenside bunker shot on Hole #9. The ball was screaming over the putting green towards the practice tees when it struck his opponent’s bag and ricocheted back onto the green. BE sunk the putt and won the hole. Issues 1) Was either player penalized by virtue of the fact that the opponent’s golf bag deflected BE’s ball in motion? 2) Was BE required to replay his…

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1. Unmarked LWH Boundary- Bahamas         One of Foremost’s favorite golf tracts is the Treasure Cay Golf Club at beautiful Treasure Cay, Bahamas. This Dick Wilson-designed course looks rather benign as it carves it’s way through the Bahamian jungle, but coupled with less than ideal conditions and constant winds, the jungle is a bit of ball magnet for slightly wayward shots, even for a player of Foremost’s caliber. F has, of course, played this course for decades, and…

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“I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag” * Facts The competition was three-ball match play at BMCC. On the daunting Par 3 hole #6 Foremost tugged his 7-iron shot ever so slightly. The ball soared, curved, struck the bank and bounced into Richland Creek. It was a swing F wished he had back the moment contact was made. He quickly recoiled his swing rather than pose in a follow through. Upon…

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Facts In Four-ball Match Play competition on the 4th hole at BMCC, Player DS pushes his drive right (a common bail-out on this hole as Richland Creek borders the fairway on the left and fronts the green). His ball nestles between the partially-submerged, spread-out roots of a massive oak tree. A first glance reveals he may have a punch-out swing to advance the ball for a closer shot into the green, rather than having to take a R28 drop under…

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F, who never entrusts anyone else with driving, would caution that is not advisable to conduct a search at full speed from a golf cart while looking at grounds near fence rail and boundary over shoulder. No R12 penalty, however, was incurred.  

Facts “Walk-out” week started with the high school students. A whole bunch of them just walked out of class one day. The education establishment was thrilled! Prominent universities immediately announced that any subsequent disciplinary action against these students resulting from the walk-out would not effect their college admissions. The students, ever-mindful of admissions, could see where the wind was blowing on this issue and immediately began posturing for news outlets hoping their resistance would be documented. Some of the walk-outers…

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Order of Play… Foremost is well aware that this topic is not one which keeps his Readers awake at night … certainly, it pales in comparison to tax reform, tariffs, gun control, mayoral trysts and resignations, transit referendums (note, the Treasurer of the Opposed is Reader, Sandwich, although there are probably a few “Ayes”, as well, among this esteemed readership), and Vandy football, among other raging issues. Nevertheless, the issue of Order of Play raised it’s head recently at BMCC…

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Facts: Ball Moves on Putting Green Opponent TC had marked his ball and was facing a 12-foot putt for par to win the 9th hole in four-ball match play competition. He replaced his ball, and stepping in to putt said, “Did you see that? It moved.” He asked if he had incurred a penalty. Foremost was prompt with a reply. “Did you cause it to move?”, he asked. “No, I was just stepping in to putt,” said TC. F quickly…

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Facts “Your head is kinda’ floating”, said opponent EC to Foremost after F topped an approach shot into Hole #9. “Perhaps”, replied F, who had never before heard the term”floating head” in reference to a golf swing and was trying to picture what that must look like. “But the implication of that observation is that I need to hold my head still, which constitutes ‘Advice’, resulting in loss of hole for you in match play under R8-1.” F went on…

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Fighting Words 1.Facts  (Too Many Clubs) The stakes were enormously high in a scintillating match play competition recently at BMCC. Foremost, determined to get off to a better start, unfortunately had to disqualify himself on the first hole after finding in the fairway that the extra club he had left with the bag room for regripping had been placed in his bag with no forewarning. This sad tale should serve as a cautionary reminder to all players as the season…

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