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TO WEDGE PUTT or NOT TO WEDGE PUTT ?

• Rick6208 2,240 Posts

  Sun, Feb 3 2019 7:40 AM

  Hello All , I'm mostly a Mobile app player , I've notice a huge increase in the amount of players using the Wedge putt in the coin rooms , mostly in Manhattan or Belagio. Now I know how to use it  and in Club tourneys I have used it when faced with a 50 putt with 2 breaks on tournament speed greens and it works quite well !. but not in the coin rooms because if your opponent does not know how to use it , it really is a unfair advantage!

  is the Wedge putt illegal ? not sure, WGT has not fixed it if it is a glitch in the system 

  Any thoughts out there ?

• alosso 21,077 Posts

  Sun, Feb 3 2019 8:04 AM

  One post is enough - I suggest to use the other one in "Bug Log".

• Rick6208 2,240 Posts

  Sun, Feb 3 2019 9:09 AM

  Sorry Alosso I didn't know you were the KEEPER of the WGT postings lol

  I guess you have no opinion about the Wedge Putt ?

• Rick6208 2,240 Posts

  Sun, Feb 3 2019 9:17 AM

  sorry guys did not realize this has been debated before, I just noticed it has become more prevalent now. It is LEGAL on WGT so thats what I needed to here

  Thanks to All who posted !

• dchallenger 545 Posts

  Sun, Feb 3 2019 10:08 AM

  Regulation ball. Regulation club. Legal.

   

• Robert1893 7,728 Posts

  Sun, Feb 3 2019 10:47 AM

  @Rick6208

  While you appear to have got the answer you're looking for, I just want to note that there is no "unfair advantage."
  
  An unfair advantage is not created simply because a player doesn't know how to use a particular tool or how to execute a specific shot. The player could learn it.
  
  An unfair advantage is when one player can use the tool or has the ability to make a certain type of shot but the other player is prevented from doing so by something external to the player. 

• andwhy67 2,816 Posts

  Sun, Feb 3 2019 11:16 AM

  dchallenger:

  Regulation ball. Regulation club. Legal

  True, Open championship quite a few years ago, American Mark Calcavechia at St Andrews, on one of the really large double greens used a wedge, divot was the size of a dinner plate.

  Many boo's from the crowd, but totally legal according to the rules of golf (R&A)

  Except now I take it in WGT land!!

• dchallenger 545 Posts

  Sun, Feb 3 2019 11:18 AM

  Robert1893:

  While you appear to have got the answer you're looking for, I just want to note that there is no "unfair advantage."
  
  An unfair advantage is not created simply because a player doesn't know how to use a particular tool or how to execute a specific shot. The player could learn it.
  
  An unfair advantage is when one player can use the tool or has the ability to make a certain type of shot but the other player is prevented from doing so by something external to the player. 

  Bob Loblaw

• Robert1893 7,728 Posts

  Sun, Feb 3 2019 11:20 AM

  "The best wedges on greens compilation 2018"

• andwhy67 2,816 Posts

  Sun, Feb 3 2019 11:37 AM

  Some camera angles have been removed there Robert!!  ;-)