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Todd Morris'

RULES OF GOLF BLOG

Caps on, play ball!

Moving on to the third published local rule in the REGL rules: "League matches shall begin at the conclusion of the bugle calls from...

Locality Part Deaux - Tee Boxes

And here's paragraph b. direct from the 2024 edition of the REGL rulebook: "All male participants must play from the white tees and...

Stroke or Match?

The first local rule for REGL is quite short: "League competition shall be under USGA stroke play rules, except as modified (Local Rules)....

The local spin....

Three weeks into the season - blog output.... zero! In my professional capacity I'm a supervisor of 19 government employees. April is...

REGL Rules Update 2024

The 2024 REGL Rules are up and on the website, and they've also been dispensed to all of the captains for play starting next week.  I’d...

Spring? Really?

I hope your offseason went better than mine in some respects. I was hoping to play in the nearly annual Pleasant Valley Invitational...

The 11th Rule...

Who? No, not Who, it's the Smithereens. A band I grew up with who's leader has now given us his last song - Pat DiNinzio died sometime...

Golf is not horseshoes or hand grenades....

Heard another war story from league play last week from a couple of guys on another team. Seems as though they ran into a player on...

Rule 4: Equipment

How could we play golf without equipment? Most sports rely on something besides our God-given parts, and golf is certainly one of those...

Rule 12 - Part II - Bunker Play

I’ve been round and round on this edition of the Rules Blog. “Finished” writing this entry about 6 weeks ago and I’ve been chewing on...

Welcome Back from the Covid Hiatus!

Welcome back! I thought about the year we had off, which also happened to be the year directly after a major rules rewrite for the USGA....

Rule 1.3 - Paying the Price

Here’s 1.3 right from the rule book: “You are expected to recognize when you have breached a Rule and to be honest in applying your own...

The crash of the High Flyer

I still remember watching - glued to the screen like a mosquito embedded there with a well-aimed flick of a flyswatter. Singles matches...

Finishing up Rule 2 - Free Relief on the course

So, let’s wrap up Rule 2, specifically addressing rules 2.3 and 2.4 which deal with free relief. These rules are often misunderstood and...

Rule 11 - Part 3, Moving Stuff

The 11th rule has 3 major portions, and I’ve broken each down into its own blog entry so as not to overwhelm the poor reader. Part 1...

Not so fast my friend....

I can say for certain that we're lucky to have a league commissioner like Steve Hensley. Loves the game, cares about the league, handles...

We promised you video

At the captain's meeting tonight, our commissioner stated we would have the widely acclaimed series of videos recently published by the...

The Confusion Factor of Implied Rules

The courtroom scenes in “A Few Good Men” are an instant draw for me. I surf by it on the tube, and I generally stop and stay glued until...

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