![]() “We try not to have the players hit the same shot or even use the same club,” said tournament official Robby Ware, discussing hole locations for the 2009 Players Championship. Officials also change some hole locations between rounds to force golfers to hit a different shot into the green. Rule 15-3(vi) recommends that officials use a balanced selection of hole locations "for the entire course with respect to left, right, central, front and back positions." For example, when setting the hole locations for the back nine during the 2007 Nissan Open, tournament official John Mutch set four on the left side of the green, four on the right and one in the center. More specifically, Rule 15-3(ii) recommends that holes should be placed "at least four paces from any edge of the putting green," and even farther if there's a sand trap near the edge or if the area surrounding the green's edge slopes downward. For example, greens will hold an approach better when they’re wet. For example, the hole will typically be placed farther from the edge of the green when the expected approach shot requires a long iron rather than a more lofted club, according to PGA official Mickey Bradley. Officials should consider the length of the likely approach shot and should allow sufficient putting distance around the hole. Toward those objectives, Rule 15-3 advises officials to examine the green’s design and to consider the type of approach shot required. You'd think the super was having a bit of fun with us or something.probably sitting up in a tree with a camera laughing his ass off as we fumbled about to make double bogeys on a par 3.Īccording to Rule 15-3, the most important factor when deciding where to place a hole is “good judgment in deciding what will give fair results.” The USGA also admonishes tournament officials not to be "tricky" when choosing hole locations. What are your thoughts on this? I'm guessing there may not be a hard rule (although maybe for tournaments there is), but it almost seems like a case of etiquette or something. ![]() I have no issue with the difficult greens punishing you for hitting the wrong areas.but to be punished for hitting a shot that gets to a foot below the hole.just doesn't seem right. The pin should have been at least another foot back of the depression IMO. The hole was not really in a place where the ball would stop. I hit what I thought was a fair weight for the shot, just missed the cup as the ball died down (anything less and the putt may not have been possible), and then I got to watch my ball go down into the depression.15 feet away.īasically, it seemed like it was hit the hole or you were screwed. Not the greatest spot as the putt was not going to be easy, but I knew all I could do was ease it towards the cup. I chipped slightly left of the pin to avoid the pull of the depression and ended up about 3 feet past the pin and about 6 feet away. ![]() Now remember, there was no back spin involved here.this ball was already rolling out when it came to a stop. 1' below the hole.perfect right? Nope, that damn ball came to a stop and then slowly started to roll backwards into the depression, stopping about 15' away. My friend is on the front right fringe and hits a great little bump and run shot that goes through the depression and gets to approx. The cup was placed right behind this depression. A friend and I are out for a round and when we get to the 8th hole we find that the pin is at the back of the green, which slopes quite a bit from back to front, and to top it off there is a large depression on the right side of the green. Here is the situation that occurred on the one hole one day. For a quick bit of background, some of the greens at my course are very undulated and they are very fast (at least relative to other courses around here). The reason I ask is that recently the pin position on a couple of the holes at my home course seemed very difficult.to the point of unfair. Just curious if there are certain rules for pin placement on the greens, or if the course is technically free to put the cup anywhere it desires.
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