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Originally Posted by Jayhawk
The USGA would disagree with you and others who claim it can't be a hole in one.
https://www.usga.org/content/usga/ho...statement.html
From the perspective of the Rules of Handicapping, the most frequent questions received are primarily related to the acceptability of scores for posting to a player’s scoring record. In particular, relating to modifying the hole and not requiring the player to “hole out” as required under the Rules of Golf. These are founded in a desire to minimize the possibility of exposing golfers to coronavirus and have included leaving the hole liner raised above the putting surface or placing various objects into the hole so the ball can be more easily removed. In these specific cases, provided guidance from health and governmental officials is being followed, a temporary measure is in place within the United States to accept scores played under these conditions for handicap purposes using the most likely score guidelines, even though the player has not holed out.
This temporary measure is now in effect within the United States until advised otherwise by the USGA. |
And therein lies the truth of the local rule---
MOST LIKELY SCORE When you slam the ball into the pipe and it bounces 40 feet away, it
WAS NOT
going in the hole. You can pretty much tell if it was going in or not. Now, with the pipe sunk below the level of the green, some are too high and a putt that clearly was going in can roll over the pipe and back out.