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drive stopping on fringe scored as missed fairway

• bdoan66 4 Posts

  Tue, Feb 3 2015 4:07 PM

  Play hole #3 at Cabo, and hit a drive which ends up on the fringe.  Finish the hole, then look at the scorecard.  The scorecard indicates that you missed the fairway.

• 2,840 Posts

  Tue, Feb 3 2015 4:45 PM

  bdoan66:

  Play hole #3 at Cabo, and hit a drive which ends up on the fringe.  Finish the hole, then look at the scorecard.  The scorecard indicates that you missed the fairway.

  Unfortunately fringe is not the same as the Fairway.

   

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• navigater 1,319 Posts

  Tue, Feb 3 2015 5:11 PM

  True, But with in the same rule, It does not count against you, The same way as a par 3.fairway miss does not count against you..

  Check the USGA rule's more closely on this one.

   

  navi

   The question is.to the Op .Card showed a miss.Did you're stats show the same?

• renniw52 5,385 Posts

  Tue, Feb 3 2015 5:19 PM

  If it wasn't for this little WGT quirk I would have several drives over 430, would have one on my stats of 437, I eagled the hole but showed a missed fairway. Who cares about stats any how?

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Tue, Feb 3 2015 5:43 PM

  Sometimes Cabo #3 shows a missed fairway when you land on the green too...

• navigater 1,319 Posts

  Tue, Feb 3 2015 6:16 PM

  missed 2 fairways Par 3 over drove.but still on fairway.

   par 4 drove the green 20 feet from hole.But stats still showed 100%.

  SIMO. disregard the game card. and go by game stats.

   

  navi

• bdoan66 4 Posts

  Tue, Feb 3 2015 10:23 PM

  Hmm, not sure if stats showed a miss.  

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Tue, Feb 3 2015 11:19 PM

  navigater:

  The same way as a par 3.fairway miss does not count against you..

  Players are supposed to hit the green on Par3s, thus there is no FW hit. The scorecard will show  "no hit" but it's omitted in the stats.

  navigater:

  Check the USGA rule's more closely on this one.

  Which rule? Please quote it.

  To my knowledge, the Rules of Golf do not know FW hits nor GIR nor drive length.

  The PGA stats count the drive length regardless where it ends up, bunker or rough, while the common local reglementation of "Longest drive" competitions require a FW hit. I heard once that a fringe hit was denied the prize in an amateur tourney (370 m distance).

  So, which rule?

• Safdar1 454 Posts

  Fri, Sep 11 2015 4:38 AM

  bdoan66:

  Hmm, not sure if stats showed a miss.  

  Same thing happened to me, drive onto fringe on a par 4, and the card showed it as a missed fairway and the stats did too.

  I guess if you get a double eagle/HiO on a par four that counts as missed fw too, I will have to assume this as I doubt I will ever find out by experience.

• borntobesting 9,700 Posts

  Fri, Sep 11 2015 4:55 AM

  Safdar1:

  I guess if you get a double eagle/HiO on a par four that counts as missed fw too, I will have to assume this as I doubt I will ever find out by experience.

  Nope it counts as a hit fairway.