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Originally Posted by mickey100
I agree. The sand traps in the villages are poorly maintained. A well maintained trap is designed to have a uniform depth of sand and gives the golfer a fair lie. Sand traps that are poorly maintained push the sand all the way up the sides, resulting in fried egg lies and slowing play. And the wet conditions only exacerbate the problem, as you described. I suppose that's the problem with having golf course maintenance farmed out to a secondary company instead of having an on-site greenskeeper. There have been many comments on this before and unfortunately things just don't change. I suggest you call the head of golf operations and talk to a real person and voice your concerns. Maybe if they hear it from enough people they will do something.
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Where in the rules of the game does it say that the player is entitled to a "fair lie"? Plugged lies happen all the time. I see them on the PGA tour where course conditions are as good as they can be. Unfair lies happens all the time everywhere. Sometimes you end up in a divot. Even when divots are filled, sometimes you might end up in a sand filled divot.
There is nothing fair about the game of golf. The two basic rules are, play the ball as it lies and play the course as you find it. When it is impossible to do either of those consult the rule book to know how to proceed.
One of the greatest things about the great game of golf is that you get to play all kinds of different golf courses and all kinds of different conditions. Years ago at Oakmont, they raked the bunkers with special tools that left 2" deep ridges. Pine Valley in Clementon, NJ does not rake bunkers at all and does not provide rakes for the players to rake them. I'd love to see some of the people on this forum play St Andrews in the middle of the summer. It's like playing on cement. Some of you would be whining about some of the world's greatest golf courses.
The game was invented on cow pastures. Conditions were deplorable compared to what we have today. Even as late as the 1960s US Open courses sometimes would be in deplorable conditions. We are all spoiled by what we have today. I think that it would better for all of us to go back to the origins of the game.