Mothy123:Ability to get an "unplayable lie" option programmed ... even if it means your using just stroke and distance as the only option. It's better than taking 4 strokes to get out of an unplayable lie situation!
PaulTon: There are no unplayable lies in the game.
Duh!
Kind of reminds me of the time I went into a local coffee shop and suggested they should have half-and-half, only to be told "We don't have half-and-half". I gave the hostess the same reply I'm giving you, Paul. (Duh!)
According to the USGA and R&A rule #28 (Unplayable Lie), it is the player's discretion what is unplayable.
Rule 28 states: "The player may deem her ball unplayable at any place on the course, except when the ball is in a water hazard. The player is the sole judge as to whether her ball is unplayable.
If the player deems her ball to be unplayable, she must, under penalty of one stroke:
a. Play a ball as nearly as possible at the spot from which the original ball was last played (see Rule 20-5); or
b. Drop a ball behind the point where the ball lay, keeping that point directly between the hole and the spot on which the ball is dropped, with no limit to how far behind that point the ball may be dropped; or
c. Drop a ball within two club-lengths of the spot where the ball lay, but not nearer the hole.".
Mothy is suggesting WGT program in an option to use rule 28a at any time, and I agree.
But we all know that's never going to happen.