Foremost suspects many of his Readers in recent days have been pondering when, and if, it is ever possible for a player to play two balls in match play. Hmmm… Certainly, a player in stroke play has the option to finish a hole with two balls if he questions the correct procedure he should follow under the Rules, and he complies with the notice and reporting provisions of R20.1c(3). In match play, however, the two-ball option is not available for…
Foremost had his game face on for a recent outing at BMCC and as expected, the competition was fierce! As the Reader is aware, however, F and his group often have trouble navigating preliminary issues, and such was the case yet again as the players gathered (under recommended social-distancing guidelines) on the first tee. (1) Practice Before Round As the Committee at BMCC had closed all practice ranges due to the China Virus, F was shocked to see players JS…
(1) Facts: A Confession Foremost was hammering away at golf balls on the range the other day when he was approached by Reader SM who said he had been losing sleep over his failure to timely self-report a violation in BMCC’s recent Scottish Day match-play competition. “That is sad to hear”, said F. “I’m sure this will haunt you for years”, F added. “So, what happened?” SM explained that he had been in a green-side bunker, when his opponents had…
A Road Trip Warm and sunny skies welcomed Foremost in a recent match play competition with Reader BL and his lovely wife, JL, at the challenging TCC golf course in Indian Wells, California. The lovely Mrs. F, who doesn’t play golf, joined the action as well, walking along as a spectator. She was perfectly content to be exercising, soaking up a little Vitamin D, and taking in the spectacular desert views of the rocky arroyos and distant snow-capped peaks which…
Foremost flipped the chip high into the air to determine honors in a recent match play competition at BMCC. “What happened to that obnoxious coin”, asked a grinning JS who had immediately noticed F was not using his prized Silver Dollar Trump coin. “Was it impeached?” The teeing ground conversation then turned to handicaps. EC told F to quit referencing the GHIN system with a hard “G” as in Gimmee”, when the correct pronunciation of GHIN is “Gin” with a…
Foremost was extremely busy the other day. He was watching “The Five” on Fox ( he would have his Readers know he once sat behind Dana Perino on a bus) as Greg Gutfeld opened a John Bolton discussion: “The media has TBD, terminal bombshell disease. A belch is a bombshell.” By this standard F reasoned that his Rulings are all, without exception, “bombshells”, although he understands if a Reader feels like F is perhaps over-selling his product! Thoughts of “bombshells”,…
I. Facts In a three-ball match play outing at BMCC, Players EC, Sandwich, and Foremost were engaged in their usual, spirited competition as they teed off on the Par-Five 17th Hole. Sandwich pushed his drive right. All watched as it glanced through the branches of a large hackberry tree and disappeared from sight. The players began their search for Sandwich’s ball, which had clearly nestled somewhere in a vast brown and crusty Bermuda rough. After a diligent search approaching the…
Facts Helicopters were in the news this past week, as eight helicopters ferried our special forces into Northern Syria where they whacked ISIS leader, al-Baghdadi, who was described by the Washington Post as an ”austere religious scholar” … a confusing description, by the way, that perhaps caused several of our Readers (Foremost included) to think immediately of our own Rev Reader CS. And while this attack was going on in Syria, thousands of miles away in the peaceful mountains of…
BMCC It was a crisp, fall day at BMCC where a full field of 64 players anxiously awaited the starting whistle in the popular Oaks Par Three Tournament… featuring a stroke-play partnership format with imaginative holes concocted and started from devious teeing areas created around the course. Reader EC was calmly limbering up in the staging area near the practice chipping green. As he worked through his familiar yoga stretching routine, trying to set his intentions for the day, he…
(1) Facts– Yellow Balls Foremost had decided to play a yellow ball, while his partner Sandwich, and opponents RM and JS were playing white balls. No contestant had changed his ball color for 12 holes (almost 3 hours) and F had grown quite accustomed to playing the yellow ball. On the daunting 13th hole at BMCC, a difficult dog-leg right, F led off with a powerful drive left which he hoped would not run through the bend of the fairway….