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Ben Crane was penalized 8 shots for head measurement technology stickers that were still on his club heads.

 

This is where golf loses me.  There is no benefit to any player during a round who has stickers on his club.  The slow growth to common sense has been a painful road.  Even if these added weight they are no different than lead tape. 

 

This ruling makes me cringe, the antiquated stuffy rules of this game are true resistance to progress.

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Ben Crane was penalized 8 shots for head measurement technology stickers that were still on his club heads.

 

This is where golf loses me.  There is no benefit to any player during a round who has stickers on his club.  The slow growth to common sense has been a painful road.  Even if these added weight they are no different than lead tape. 

 

This ruling makes me cringe, the antiquated stuffy rules of this game are true resistance to progress.

There has to be a point where logic takes over. That is just silly. A guy I played with in our club championship was using a new driver, still had the barcode sticker on the shaft. Is that nonconforming? Didn't seem to help him much.

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Ben Crane was penalized 8 shots for head measurement technology stickers that were still on his club heads.

 

This is where golf loses me. There is no benefit to any player during a round who has stickers on his club. The slow growth to common sense has been a painful road. Even if these added weight they are no different than lead tape.

 

This ruling makes me cringe, the antiquated stuffy rules of this game are true resistance to progress.

And they do this after all the controversy the last 2 years. I hope it wasn't someone who noticed it and call it in

Stupid ruling.

 

 

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He didn't use either his driver of 6i, and gained no advantage.  There wouldn't have been an advantage if had used them, but then he would have been disqualified.

 

It wouldn't even be a penalty under the new rules they are considering for 2019.

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Crazy.Their rules have little bearing on my game or others I join up with.We follow the "basic" rules to our best abilities.These petty calls will never be apart or interfere with my game

"Petty" is right on.

 

 

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I thought I read something this morning where Ben said he called the penalty on himself.

 

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I thought I read something this morning where Ben said he called the penalty on himself.

 

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Dunno about how it came about. I got the "Alert" that the penalty was assessed.

 

 

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Just another poor decision by the governing body and protector of the game

 

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Fortunately no one is watching golf right now. :)

 

 

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Fortunately no one is watching golf right now. :)

 

 

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Kinda true. No golf for us Maybe another week and I'm on new meds and not supposed to be in the sun for long. Works out well living in the Sunshine State

So Golf Channel for me later.

 

 

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Even worse, today they DQed him. Because....... he told the official with his group about the stickers, but he didn't tell his playing partners until later that he had to take the two clubs out of play. He was DQed for talking to the rules official instead of notifying his playing partners. You can't make this stuff up

 

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And we wonder why we can't grow the game

 

 

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Even worse, today they DQed him. Because....... he told the official with his group about the stickers, but he didn't tell his playing partners until later that he had to take the two clubs out of play. He was DQed for talking to the rules official instead of notifying his playing partners. You can't make this stuff up

 

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It was because he declared his driver out of play but did NOT declare his 6 iron out of play, he didn't declare the 6 iron until hol 14, 3 holes later, so he knowingly had a non conforming club in his bag, and did not declare it as such, even though he didn't even use it.

 

I think we all agree that some of these common sense situations have been lost with the decision makers of golf. This is just as bad as some of the other ones that have been called.

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That effed up rule is as worthless as tits on a boar hawg.  I mean come now WTF are those nerd nutts thinking!  Hell our group still has one belly putter in play and one titty putter in play.  We could give a rats arse if you had 25 clubs in your bag.  On the other hand we are not playing for several hundred thousand dollars but still,  this kind of stuff is repulsive to me.....   :angry: 

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And we wonder why we can't grow the game

 

 

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That's a true statement.

 

 

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That effed up rule is as worthless as tits on a boar hawg. I mean come now WTF are those nerd nutts thinking! Hell our group still has one belly putter in play and one titty putter in play. We could give a rats arse if you had 25 clubs in your bag. On the other hand we are not playing for several hundred thousand dollars but still, this kind of stuff is repulsive to me..... :angry:

I really didn't give it a thought but yea the seniors here buy a new club it goes in the bag and the only time a club is removed can't jam any more clubs in the bag. Belly putters yup see a few. It's a bunch of old farts having fun and the main job is busting b@@$$.

How many times has one of these guys go back to the tee box and re hit after lost ball mmmm not very often, only in real $$ Tournaments and those are few and in between.

 

 

 

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I really didn't give it a thought but yea the seniors here buy a new club it goes in the bag and the only time a club is removed can't jam any more clubs in the bag. Belly putters yup see a few. It's a bunch of old farts having fun and the main job is busting b@@$$.

 

 

 

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Now ya cooking with Crisco!

Crisco?? Haven't heard that in a loooong time Bud! Dates us!

 

 

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As I was reading about this today, the question that came to my mind was how were the stickers any different than lead tape? Honest question. Can someone explain? Is it because the stickers are part of a training aid?

 

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As I was reading about this today, the question that came to my mind was how were the stickers any different than lead tape? Honest question. Can someone explain? Is it because the stickers are part of a training aid?

 

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Very good question .......  I ordered me a couple dozen of those stickers as I need all the help I can get! ;)   They must be pretty awesome huh to cause such a stir...  lol

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The sticky rules situations these days are absolutely crazy... "yeah, this new smiley face sticker I got saved me 6 strokes the other day..."

 

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The sticky rules situations these days are absolutely crazy... "yeah, this new smiley face sticker I got saved me 6 strokes the other day..."

 

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This one?

 

 

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"Non-conforming". It's laughable.

 

 

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As I was reading about this today, the question that came to my mind was how were the stickers any different than lead tape? Honest question. Can someone explain? Is it because the stickers are part of a training aid?

 

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This was what I was thinking too. Are my golfdotz on my irons illegal as well?

 

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As I was reading about this today, the question that came to my mind was how were the stickers any different than lead tape? Honest question. Can someone explain? Is it because the stickers are part of a training aid?

 

The difference between stickers on the face of the club (probably left after a training session with a swing analyzer) and lead tape on the bottom of the club is location.  If he does hit the ball off-center enough to hit a sticker, it WILL influence the flight of the ball.  That's why you're not allowed to have anything on the face of the club.  Lead tape, and other stuff that gets stuck to other parts of the club are specifically allowed, if you read the decisions.  He knew the rule, he screwed up when he quit his practice session and didn't remove the stickers.  This is NOT poor decision by the officials, they were simply enforcing the current rules.  And this rule will NOT change in 2019.

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The difference between stickers on the face of the club (probably left after a training session with a swing analyzer) and lead tape on the bottom of the club is location. If he does hit the ball off-center enough to hit a sticker, it WILL influence the flight of the ball. That's why you're not allowed to have anything on the face of the club. Lead tape, and other stuff that gets stuck to other parts of the club are specifically allowed, if you read the decisions. He knew the rule, he screwed up when he quit his practice session and didn't remove the stickers. This is NOT poor decision by the officials, they were simply enforcing the current rules. And this rule will NOT change in 2019.

Well, yes. The descision was correct, but I think what everyone is saying is, the rules can be ridiculous. it's absolutely stupid to give a guy and 8 stroke penalty because of a tiny sticker on his club. At that point, you have to ask, "what about the 4 different kinds of stickers you find on shafts (barcodes, shaft brand stickers, etc.)? After all, they do add weight to the club... "

 

 

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