PJ-4INT MARKS WATER HAZARD Ines of Yellaw and Red Paint Have in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Had Calared L Been Intraduced by the USGA Lines Araund the Water Hazards
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PJ-4INT MARKS WATER HAZARD ines of yellaw and red paint have in Myrtle Beach, S.C., had calared L been intraduced by the USGA lines araund the water hazards. this year as a means af defining mar- The paint methad is faster to in- gins of water hazards and lateral stall than the stake method. It elimi- water hazards. Far m'any years the nates the need af stretching a string USGA has used painted stakes - between two. stakes when there is yellaw far regular water hazards and daubt whether a hall has come to. rest red far latel'lal water hazards. But in- in a hazard. Mare impolrtant, painted stalling hundreds af stakes is quite lines ca.nnat be remaved by small bays a jab, especially on caurses like who. might atherwise pull up the Cherry Hills in Denver, scene af the stakes and sail them as baats dawn 1960 Open and Oakmant and The braoks. Dunes Galf & Beach Club, where the One patential disadvantage af the 1962 men's and women's Open Cham- paint methad is that if a water haz- pianships were played. ard Qverflaws, pruinted lines may be Clarence W. Benedict, USGA Vice- under water and not visible to. tell President and Chairmanaf the Cham- where the water hazard ends and pio1nship Cammittee, and the Execu- casual water begins. Stakes have the tive Directar, Jaseph C. Dey, Jr., dis- edge here. cussed last winter the praspects af Anather disadvantage to. the paint defining water hazards with water- methad was discavered at Myrtle praaf lines an the graund. Mr. Bene- Beach when P. J. Bo.atwright, Assis- dict decided to. experiment. He ab- tant Directar af the USGA, was en- tained a standard garden spray unit, circling a lake bardered by lang grass. same standard enamel - red and He stepped .on a snake and with the yellaw - and a supply af naphtha, garden sprayer (which weighs abaut which he used to thin the paint. He filled the garden sprayer and experi- 25 ar 30 paunds when filled) strapped mented at his hame and then at the to. his back, he faund it very difficult Winged Faat Gollf Club. It warked to. mave as fast as a persolll in such perfectly, making a well-defined thin circumstances wauld like to. mave. line. And so. the Open at Oakmant Luckily, it was a nan - paisQnaus and the Wamen's Open at The Dunes blacksnake. Handicap Decisions yau please advise me what to. da? Am USGA Handicap Decisian 62-4 I permi tted to. use these practice References: Men - Sectian 4-1, 8-3a round scares far handicapping? Wamen - Sectian 15-1, 19-3a Questian by: MRS. E. H. TRAVIS, Q: We have a teenage girl who. be- Handicap Secretary lang,s to. aur wamen's club. We have had Airways Women's Golf Club camplaints abaut this girl's handicap Fresno, Calif. being taQ high. She plays near par galf. A: Scares made when a player is Naw this is what I'm inquiring playing mare than .one ball are not abaut. This girl is playing what she made in accardance with the Rules af calls practice raunds and nat turning Galf and may nat be used in handicap in these scares. She plays two. balls an camputatians. See Sectian 15-1 af The every hale, keeping an 18-hale scare Canduct af Wamen's Galf. with each ball. As I said, she is playing n is understandable that normal near par galf, and we dan't have any camputatian methads will not praduce af these scares far handicapping. Will an equitable handicap far such an up- 18 USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: AUGUST, 1962 and-coming young player when a sub- an association where membership is by stantial amount of her golf is played invitation. under the circumstances described. The If a player's best 10 of the last 25 Committee would be justified in reduc- core figure a handicap of 34, for ex- ing the player's handicap to an equit- ample, should the player have to play able figure, under Section 19-3a. with only 30? 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