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Re: 3 suggestions

• Plucker13 39 Posts

  Sun, Dec 20 2015 2:27 PM

  1) When a ball is lost it would be great if we could select a ball out of the bag rather than being stuck with starter ball. If your trying to sell balls it would seem only logical to do so. 

  2) Team play would be a fun option such as a combined score of 2 against 2.

  3) Any way possible of getting Augusta or Sawgrass course on here?

• hakman123 2,119 Posts

  Sun, Dec 20 2015 2:37 PM

  #1 has been dealt with many many times. The answer is always the same - the rules of golf prohibit changing the ball during play - if you run out of balls, you are given the option to buy another sleeve of the same ball, declining that option you get to play with a strter ball.

  A better suggestion would be - if a player tees up on the 1st and finds by error to have a starter ball in hand, to have the option to change balls before teeing off. How many of us have had the experience of playing a "Tough it Out" challenge, or some other match using starter balls, and then forgotten to change back before clicking on some Single-Play tournament. It is a killer to be playing Round 3 of a VT event and finding that you have a starter ball on the 1st tee!!!! I know you should check - but it is so easy to go click, click, click and suddenly past the point of no return you have killed your chances before even playing a shot. Surely the rules would say you can change balls before you hit a stroke?  This would be beneficial to WGT, as changing balls would add to their revenue - while staying with the starter gives them nothing.

• ZioMio 4,680 Posts

  Sun, Dec 20 2015 4:46 PM

  While we're at it..

  4. Weekly Clashes

• Robert1893 7,719 Posts

  Sun, Dec 20 2015 5:20 PM

  hakman123:

  #1 has been dealt with many many times. The answer is always the same - the rules of golf prohibit changing the ball during play - if you run out of balls, you are given the option to buy another sleeve of the same ball, declining that option you get to play with a strter ball.

  While I'm sure that someone has already point this out (probably many times), but the rules of golf allow the player to change balls between holes. So, if WGT wants to substitute the starter ball (if the purchase of additional balls of the same one is declined), then the player should be given the option of choosing a different ball out of his bag at the next tee. 
  
  I'm sure it won't change. But the "one ball" rule does not require players to play the entire round with the same ball or same brand of ball. At least, that's how I understand the rule. But I suppose I could be mistaken. 

   

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Sun, Dec 20 2015 6:42 PM

  ZioMio:

  While we're at it..

  4. Weekly Clashes

  Better idea, 4 clashes per week....it will speed up the process of having all members of 1 CC with the golden goose putter

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Sun, Dec 20 2015 9:11 PM

  Plucker13:

  1) When a ball is lost it would be great if we could select a ball out of the bag rather than being stuck with starter ball. If your trying to sell balls it would seem only logical to do so.

  There is no second ball in the bag - they are in the inventory.

  There's no choice to change, perhaps because you must not change the clubs...

  Plucker13:

  2) Team play would be a fun option such as a combined score of 2 against 2.

  Agreed, but WGT has said numerous times that there will be no new MP game.

  Plucker13:

  3) Any way possible of getting Augusta or Sawgrass course on here?

  I'd assume that this depends on contractual situation and development. Both courses may be blocked by business competitors.

  OTOH, remember: They are WGT, hope is futile!

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Mon, Dec 21 2015 8:42 AM

  Robert1893:

  But the "one ball" rule does not require players to play the entire round with the same ball or same brand of ball.

  But I suppose I could be mistaken. 

  The USGA has the rule book online.

  There is no One Ball Rule. However there is provision for a Local Rule: Condition of the Competition known as the One Ball Condition in Appendix I, Part C of the Rules of Golf that does indeed require players to use the same make and model of ball for the entire duration of a stipulated round :

  One Ball Condition

  If it is desired to prohibit changing brands and models of golf balls during a stipulated round, the following condition is recommended:

  "Limitation on Balls Used During Round: (Note to Rule 5-1)

  (i) "One Ball" Condition

  During a stipulated round, the balls a player plays must be of the same brand and model as detailed by a single entry on the current List of Conforming Golf Balls.

  Note: If a ball of a different brand and/or model is dropped or placed it may be lifted, without penalty, and the player must then proceed by dropping or placing a proper ball (Rule 20-6).

   

   

• srellim234 2,077 Posts

  Mon, Dec 21 2015 9:07 AM

  From the USGA website:

  https://www.usga.org/RulesFAQ/rules_answer.asp?FAQidx=177&Rule=15

  ..."Q. May a player change golf balls during the play of a hole or a stipulated round? When the player is permitted to substitute another golf ball may he change to a ball of a different brand or type?

  When changing balls, the player is permitted to substitute a ball of another brand or type unless the Committee has adopted the One Ball Condition of Competition (see Appendix I; Part C; Section 1c). This optional condition (usually referred to as ‘The One Ball Rule’) is generally adopted only in events that are limited to professional golfers or highly-skilled amateur golfers. Generally, this condition of competition is not adopted in club-level competitions...."

  WGT's application here has absolutely nothing to do with the One Ball Condition, or Rule, as even the USGA acknowledges it is referred as. If it did equipment changes would be allowed in practice. Ball changes would be allowed in country club play if the club tournament committee so desires and it would be allowed in individual play where there is no competition.

  The lack of substitution is more likely because programming choices into the game is too difficult or would make the game perform more erratically.

• Robert1893 7,719 Posts

  Mon, Dec 21 2015 9:35 AM

  ApexPC:

  The USGA has the rule book online.

  There is no One Ball Rule. However there is provision for a Local Rule: Condition of the Competition known as the One Ball Condition in Appendix I, Part C of the Rules of Golf that does indeed require players to use the same make and model of ball for the entire duration of a stipulated round

  
  Thanks. I am aware of the online rule book and checked it out before I posted.That's why I put the words in quotes. And yes, local rules do allow for adopting such a rule. But the idea of a local rule for WGT courses seems a bit oxymoronic to me.
  
  Regardless, the replacement of a starter ball violates any "one ball" rule as much as allowing the player to choose any other balls that he/she might have. By definition, it's a different ball (in both make and model).    

   

• Robert1893 7,719 Posts

  Mon, Dec 21 2015 10:02 AM

  srellim234:

  The lack of substitution is more likely because programming choices into the game is too difficult or would make the game perform more erratically.

  Agreed.