From: DH Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 10:43 PM To: Foremost Subject: Caddie speaks out on greens reading books JOHN WOOD, CADDIE TO MATT KUCHAR Monday, August 06, 2018 Dear USGA and R&A, We need to talk. This is where you’ve decided to put your foot down? Restricting green-reading materials? Because it feels like there’s an elephant on the tee box that no one’s addressing — looking at you, 350-yard drives — and you guys are waving your hands…
(Def. “Nearest Point of Relief”; Rs 12,20,24,27), but first: New Rule! Does the Reader find the spectacle of the professional golfer consulting his greens notebook a little over-the –top? Continuing in their efforts to make the Rules of Golf easier and more comprehensible to the general golfing public, the USGA and the R&A jointly proposed a rule to be effective in 2019 which would address “greens-reading materials.” The concern was that current elaborate greens-reading materials lessen the skill, ability, and…
Happy 4th of July! As fireworks exploded high in the skies across America in celebration of our great nation’s independence, fireworks on a more personal and emotional level, equally combustible, exploded on the otherwise serene and tranquil grounds of the BMCC golf course. The cause of this latter excitement was the play of music by Player and Reader, WD, during a stipulated round of four-ball competition. A Hushed Allegation The caller, opponent BC, advised Foremost that he had recently completed…
Introduction Unlike some of our justices and their expansive reading of our Constitution, in which these justices are proud to find constitutional rights “in penumbras…of emanations”*, Foremost interprets the laws established in the ROG as a “strict constructionist.” In other words, he turns first to the text itself so that his rulings depend not on various outcome-oriented rationales and conclusions which, however twisted, F suspects might be pleasing to a high percentage of his Readers, but rather he tries to…
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalia Facts. Foremost stepped in to attempt a 2 1/2 footer to clinch a singles match play victory. It had been a hard-fought competition, and the 2 1/2 footer was certainly no gimme as he had missed one of a somewhat similar distance to clinch the match on a prior hole (he never should have tried that one right-handed!) Nevertheless, he stood over this putt confidently. His opponent faced a…
Mickelson Misses 3-Stroke Opportunity Even Pros suffer mental lapses …as evidenced by Phil Mickelson Saturday during the U.S. Open. Rather than slowly pace as he did and strike the ball only as it gathered speed some 10-12 feet past the hole (missing the hole with that stroke and again missing on a subsequent stroke with the ball at rest), PM should have simply raced to the hole and stroked the ball into the hole as it passed the hole the…
The players gathered around the table in the locker room enjoying refreshments and settling the afternoon’s wagers. Foremost’s mind was wandering. Although he had won a few dollars with his team, it was hard to enjoy the victory since he hadn’t been allowed to keep score. (The other team was justified in wanting to handle the scoring after discovering F had given them a best ball 7 on a hole on which they had scored a birdie 3). A passerby…
R15-1,2; R20-6 “the Insurance Rule”; R33-1; App I PartC; and Where’s the Hazard Line? Facts The setting was the difficult Par 4 7th hole at BMCC during the opening match play round of President’s Cup competition. Foremost’s opponent, BB, had pushed his second shot with the ball just trickling over a mound in the direction of Richland Creek. Indeed, upon arriving at the scene, BB found his ball in the water just over the shelf of the embankment. Dropping to…
Facts The format was team match play with points awarded by hole for low ball, low total, and trash including birdies. Opponents JS and DS were using the flagstick to measure the greenie for closest to the pin. DS claimed victory as his ball was measured at 1 flagstick , plus, extending the flag a second time to his ball lying by the red paint of the flag, while JS’s measurement was one flag, plus, extending the flag a second…
Setting Issues of world peace and thermonuclear war occupied the conversation of a group recently during a pre-match meal over-looking the scenic 18th hole of BMCC. “Why would North Korea do a deal with Trump?”, one asked, “when he looks so eager to back out of the deal with Iran.” “It must gall the Democrats sorely”, said another, “to have their icons, the Europeans, appear to get along so well with Trump.” He was, of course, referencing the state visits…