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Originally Posted by ukgolfer
cheers for that I will have to get over the guilt of thinking I am hitting off somebody's lawn....is it bad form to stand on the lawn to hit your ball if the ball is just in bounds and your stance requires you to stand on the lawn to line up your shot?
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AFAIK, the rules of golf do not understand bad form
, so we have to use common sense. I assume you are talking about a situation where my ball is in bounds, but I would have to stand in the edge of someones yard (out of bounds) to swing . The odds of this are pretty slim..... it seems if my ball gets near the line it leaps out
To me, the determining factor is that I not affect the persons property in any way, e.g., standing in plantings, swing damaging anything on their property, divot flying into yard, etc. If my shot would do any damage to the person's property, it would make taking the shot completely out of the question. I would then ask my 'buddies' for a rules decision
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I wonder if there is a local rule in a circumstance where your have a clear swing but would break an off property flower on your follow through? For the rules of golf it would be a slippery slope, but mighty neighborly.