Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 09, 2021

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    eastern.woods.metal  about 3 years ago

    Old school. He used a rake not one of those gas powered blowers

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    Bilan  about 3 years ago

    If he was really clever, he would create a high bank of leaves on the opposite side of the hole.

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    tudza Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Totally legal. You see pro golfers cleaning the path all the time.

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    willispate  about 3 years ago

    the Groundskeeper: if it doesn’t cause any divots in the field, I’ve got no problems with it.

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    Sanspareil  about 3 years ago

    Current rules say any impediment to the path to the hole can be removed.

    In the O̶͇̞̎̚l̵̤͈̑̇d̷̤́̿͟ẽ̵̛̞͜ days those were true except for spike marks!

    Those O̶͇̞̎̚l̵̤͈̑̇d̷̤́̿͟ẽ̵̛̞͜ rules about spike marks were ridiculous!

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    eastern.woods.metal  about 3 years ago

    Don’t laugh. I’ve played where we lost balls on the green

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  about 3 years ago

    Have your players sweep the path like they do with Curling.

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    The Pro from Dover  about 3 years ago
    I give up let’s leave.
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    in.amongst  about 3 years ago

    Oh come on, Brandon – get on with it!

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    dadoctah  about 3 years ago

    Hey, if they actually encourage you to use a broom in curling….

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    Painted Wolf  about 3 years ago

    Ah. Memories of the Snow Plow Game.

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    sandpiper  about 3 years ago

    Could use the blower to move the ball through the leaves.

    I was going to clear off leaves and stain our deck today but, at 5 am I awoke to realize that by the time I cleared it and applied stain, more leaves would be landing. Guess a deck covered with leaves stuck in wet stain might not be a good thing. Maybe after leaf fall, like in January?

    Yeah, I know. I’m getting a lot slower at thinking things through these days.

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    dot-the-I  about 3 years ago

    If indeed a violation, his game score would be ka-putt.

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    LawrenceS  about 3 years ago

    And in the winter you switch to black golf balls, ‘cause they’re easier to find in the snow.

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    Mark Jeffrey Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Just for your amusement, another set of very British rules updates:

    https://i.etsystatic.com/5577241/r/il/5661c7/1953318528/il_794xN.1953318528_7p6q.jpg

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    William Bednar Premium Member about 3 years ago

    To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: “Golf it the pursuit of the unhittable by the unspeakable”.

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    mrsdonaldson  about 3 years ago

    As I recall, you can remove leaves and such that are in between the ball and the hole so, technically, it is allowed. :)

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    monya_43  about 3 years ago

    It should be OK as long as he doesn’t bank the ball against the leaves on the sides and behind the hole.

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    Redd Panda  about 3 years ago

    It’s a pretty shabby course, if there’s leaves on the green.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    If you can move a twig you can move a leaf. Particularly if your ball is in front of mine.

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    KEA  about 3 years ago

    on a related note it’s amazing how balls can find leaves to hide under completely

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    mistercatworks  about 3 years ago

    Rule #1 no “dust blowers”.

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    Bookworm  about 3 years ago

    I tried diligently for twenty years to learn how to play golf. I took lessons. I went to the driving range. I practiced on the putting green. For twenty years, all I actually accomplished was losing golf balls, catching poison ivy, and killing the occasional snake. On one warm, lovely, sunny spring day I got so frustrated I threw my bag and clubs into the lake that had just swallowed my ball, and gave it up. I took up bowling. I’ve been a happy man ever since. And I’ll swear before the throne of the Almighty that, in a bowling alley, I have never lost a ball, never caught poison ivy, and never even encountered a snake.

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    PastorJayMo  about 3 years ago

    Hey it worked for the Patriots in the snow bowl.

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    Thehag  about 3 years ago

    Still has to putt straight just because the leaves leave a path is no guarantee of skill.

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    198.23.5.11  about 3 years ago

    The one time I played golf was 40 years ago in Grand Island,New York(A resort area between Buffalo and Niagara Falls).

    I played an unspeakably high 9 holes on a public course,and found out that the clubhouse had been flooded with calls to “get that slowpoke off the course”.

    I’ve stuck to miniature golf since.

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    mindjob  about 3 years ago

    Thats why they plant evergreen trees in gold courses

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    bobgreenwade  about 3 years ago

    In one corner of my office, near the closet where my cosplay costumes hang, I have a lightsaber, a foam baseball bat, a yardstick, a Harpo Marx cane/horn, and a sink plunger. I’m thinking of getting a golf bag to hold them all.

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    Cactus-Pete  about 3 years ago

    So how did he create such a small neat path with that large rake?

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    dexterwhite  about 3 years ago

    I think that’s called “improving your lie”

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    spaced man spliff  about 3 years ago

    I heard in Scotland sheep graze on the golf courses. What do you do if there are sheep droppings directly between the ball and the hole?

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    tee929  about 3 years ago

    It looks like he should have gotten a two stroke penalty for too many clubs in his bag….

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    Bicycle Dude  about 3 years ago

    Given 45’s chronic cheating at golf, and for that matter, everything in his life. He’d declare a give me, and take a hole-in-one, giving him a double eagle on a par 3 hole.

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    JH&Cats  about 3 years ago

    In dirt-driveway marbles games, that was called a cow path, and it was illegal.

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    DudeHoldMyBearandWatchThis  about 3 years ago

    If you hit a ball and something interferes with it (such as it is right on the edge of the cup and either a bird knocks it in or it was about to go in and a bird knocks it away), you play it as it was, as long as you or another player didn’t touch it, right?

    So if someone used a leaf blower to deflect it, they didn’t touch it, did they?

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    bagholder5150  about 3 years ago

    Actually the rules of golf were changed some years ago to allow players to use a towel to remove loose impediments such as leaves – pine needles – sand etc to clear a path from their MARKED ball to the hole.

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