Rain Stops Play
Despite best efforts, no golf this week due to rain.
Murray Cooper's cake on hold until next Wednesday.
Practice Tee Update
How good is this looking......
With the arrival of the new Tee Line turf last week, Richard and Eddie got started on Monday building the wooden frames for the first 6 metre tee box at the top level. By the end of last week this was all completed with the crushed rock compacted ready for the turf to be laid. On Monday this week we had Brandon Hodgson on site to cut the turf into four sections. This required a very steady hand, so very happy to have his expertise. The first piece has now been laid, with a great finish and ready for use when all is tidied up.
We have now started on the 12 metre tee box on the middle level, and with assistance from the three Wagglers in the photo (Wazza, Nugget and Hamish) have the posts in place and the crushed rock spread ready for compaction. We hope to have the framework and turf in place next week, weather permitting.
Richard and the green staff have done a great job and thanks to all for some great progress.
Thanks to Eddie for leading the charge on this - great work.
The Golf Rule Nobody Knew
There is a very popular weekly golf podcast called The Chipping Forecast which I know some of us listen to. This week they mentioned a rules infringement which is bizarre. All on the podcast admitted they didn't know this rule and at some time have probably all fell foul of it. Here's what happened.
Shaun Norris was playing the DP World Tour event - The Nexo Championship.
He was playing a par 4 and his tee shot had found the fairway. He was getting ready to play his iron shot approach to the green.
His ball wasn't in a divot but in taking his stance, he found he was standing on a replaced divot. It was quite a big divot, obviously hadn't taken root, and Shaun Norris felt his stance was unstable. So he kicked the replaced divot out of the way choosing to stand instead on the vacant divot hole.
In doing so he had infringed Rule 8.1 improving his stance. The officials saw what he had done and awarded him a 2 shot penalty. He was leading the tournament at the time.
If the divot hadn't been replaced and was just debris on the fairway, he would have been entitled to kick it away as a loose impediment. But because the divot had been replaced back in the hole, it was deemed an integral part of the golf course.
Who knew ?