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Message: [QUOTE="jordoo, post: 2252518, member: 569"] The point of the unplayable rules are to keep the integrity of the angle of the shot. If you are taking an unplayable you are likely very far offline and should still have to face the penalty of that angle even after taking a stroke since that stroke was to improve you lie not your angle.You get two club lengths no closer, pretty much the same angle. You go backwards as far as you want away from the pin, again same angle. Your other option is to replay the original shot which incurs a stroke and distance penalty. The point of that being that if you aren't going to maintain the same angle then you are getting a BIGGER penalty. That is what really bothered me the line of sight thing. He used the trailers to change the angle of the shot and stay withing range of the green. Basically he used the rules to defeat the spirit of the rules. (of course as you say that was nothing compared to Tigers loose impediment boulder) 20 to 25 minutes is completely unacceptable as well. If I was Kuchar I would have told him to figure it out and hit about 5min in. Then I would have been following him around so he knew I was unhappy. If Spieth can inconvenience Kuchar for that long then certainly Kuchar pressuring him to hurry it up is OK. Everyone praised Spieth for saying he was sorry but in reality he wasn't because he took 20-25min. Sure he may have felt bad afterwords but during he wasn't. Imagine if they weren't in the last group and he took 20-25min? It would have been a huge deal but since it only effected one guy (the only other guy he's really competing with at that point) its cool. As far as the average golfer. I agree with a lot of what you are saying. I think OB being a lateral hazard is fine to move play along. Plenty of golfers don't even know that its not anyway. On public courses we usually play with some leniency as far as divots and sand go. Just have to make someone else aware of it. On private courses its not usually a problem. [/QUOTE]

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