Out of bounds or in bounds?
when playing the championship courses how do you determine when your ball is in bounds or out of bounds?......
I know the official rule is "When stakes are used to define out of bounds, these stakes should be painted white. The out of bounds line is determined by the nearest inside points of the stakes at ground level"....but I have found that the sometimes the stakes are what I would say in the garden of a home and I dont like to go and play my shot off somebody's lawn....when playing in the Villages I have always used the difference in the grass from the golf course to a lawn as the guide of out of bounds line, myself and our regular playing partners just say "its a villages rule".....(its sometimes to your benefit and sometimes to your disadvantage).....this did cause a problem once with somebody playing with us who was new to the villages...on any courses that we play in the uk we do use the official rule...but we dont have courses set up like the villages?
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