Rules & Equipment Should Be Different for Amateurs with John Erickson

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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0:00.0	If you don't like your lie, you could take full relief, go back to the middle of the
0:07.0	fairway, take a one-stroke penalty, and now you go back, 30 yards.
0:10.0	Where everyone's hitting a 7 iron, now you're hitting a 4 iron and a shot penalty.
0:15.0	Simple. Casual water, hit it out of the water. Don't like it? Go middle of the fairway and go back.
0:20.0	Because I believe that relief
0:22.0	should be relief. I'll give you an example. I'm playing in the Alberta Open and on the ninth hole,
0:27.4	I hit my drive left and I was in grass that was this high. But there were red stakes that were going
0:32.4	through this grass. So it was a lateral hazard. I took relief and I dropped my ball and I'm still in grass. That's 12 inches tall.
0:40.3	The reason that we go back 30 yards is because when you go back 30 yards, nobody cares about where you drop the ball.
0:46.3	You're back there three clubs far. Nobody cares when you're back there.
0:51.3	So we were getting around the golf course in a pro-am format, two pros, two amateurs,
0:57.0	and we were getting around in three hours and 45 minutes.
1:00.0	Hi, this is Christopher Payne from Castle Creek, New York, and I play at a Ford Hill Country Club.
1:06.0	This is Golf Smarter Number 934.
1:09.0	The rules and equipment need to be different for amateurs, with the always thought-provoking
1:15.7	John Erickson.
1:16.7	This is Golf Smarter, sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help
1:23.6	you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.
1:27.3	Here's your host, Fred Green.
1:29.8	Welcome back to the Golf Smarter Podcast, John.
1:32.7	It's great to be back.
1:34.0	It's great to have you back.
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