Disclaimer

I just want to make it clear - I just love getting out in the country and playing a bit of golf.

I am not out to set course records, get a handicap or come and steal any prizes at club competition days.

In the old days we used to say "it's all about shot making".  That is we played golf using our own rules - mostly preferred lies EVERYWHERE so that the emphasis was making a good connection not how clever you were hacking out of salt bush.

My scores posted in my blogs are played under my rules - or for the purist - I'm cheating!

And that's fine by me. I just want one consistent approach so I can see generally how I am playing.

I promise I play by the rules when I need to!

For those who care:

• preferred lies everywhere no more than 1 /2 club length
• gimmes OK but must be less than a foot
• on sand greens - I try and limit all scrapes to two but sometimes the greens are in a poor state, I might need a few goes to get it as smooth as I can - just so its fair not for advantage.
• lost ball - generally its a drop in the spot where I think it was lost and I try not place in a spot that gives me a clear shot out so that most times I need to chip sideways and that's my penalty.
• not all courses have score cards so I don't know if some fairways are out of bounds but where its obvious the course boundary has been breached - its OB and I re-hit from the same spot and impose a stroke penalty.
• water - lost ball, stroke penalty, place where it crossed
• anything else I need to to be fair (GUR), I do within reason