Here’s how to make golf fun again
I would like to make a case for never having to play a golf shot from a footprint or unnatural condition in a sand bunker. When did you ever see a professional golfer on TV hit out of a deep footprint? So what’s my point? The rules of golf are pretty clear on “playing the ball as it lies,” especially in a hazard or sand bunker.
What is not recognized is that playing conditions for the vast majority of golfers on ordinary courses are not the same.
Professional golfers are afforded largely pristine environments, while the general paying public is not. Despite appeals to players to rake after a shot, in reality this is not always properly done, if done at all. The solution is simple - invoke for amateur play and on ordinary courses the adoption of a local rule that permits the sand to be raked and the ball replaced in the reconditioned area. The trend in golf play according to recent reports is going down. Why?
1) Golf is too expensive.
2) It takes too much time.
3) It is just plain hard.
Jim Furyk recently said he “would like to see the game be more fun.”
Well, let’s get started.
Jed DuBreuil, North Myrtle Beach
This story was originally published November 12, 2016 at 10:11 AM with the headline "Here’s how to make golf fun again."