Respectfully Submitted, Foremost

BMCC It was a crisp, fall day at BMCC where a full field of 64 players anxiously awaited the starting whistle in the popular Oaks Par Three Tournament… featuring a stroke-play partnership format with imaginative holes concocted and started from devious teeing areas created around the course. Reader EC was calmly limbering up in the staging area near the practice chipping green. As he worked through his familiar yoga stretching routine, trying to set his intentions for the day, he…

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(1) Facts– Yellow Balls Foremost had decided to play a yellow ball, while his partner Sandwich, and opponents RM and JS were playing white balls. No contestant had changed his ball color for 12 holes (almost 3 hours) and F had grown quite accustomed to playing the yellow ball. On the daunting 13th hole at BMCC, a difficult dog-leg right, F led off with a powerful drive left which he hoped would not run through the bend of the fairway….

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Dumpster Relief? Foremost is thrilled to be able to feature a dumpster scene in a high-brow  Rules review! (Carefully note the large dumpster in the shade to the right of the roll-aways). The Setting  From the 9th hole of the lovely PCC, in four-ball matchplay competition, Reader MM reports that he hit his drive left …”way left”. He found it on the ground amidst the branches of a low-hanging tree, with no possibility of a shot due to swing restrictions….

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Foremost is pretty sure he was incorrect in his initial answer to all of the following Reader inquiries. See if you get them correctly! (1)An Out-of-Bounds Argument          Reader JJ closely examined opponent VP’s ball (picture attached). The ball was situated in a long, wispy grass, either on or next to a white out-of-bounds line, at its outer edge. Although upon close examination, the ball appeared to be resting on the natural green/brown roots of the grass,…

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