If in a footprint in a bunker you get to rake and drop it back in the same spot of the bunker

If you hit the ball in the rough or over in the fall leaves and don’t have the luxury of a spotter like the tour pros, free drop (no penalty) to replace your ball where you and the group agree it landed but is either plugged, under leaves. Speed up play free drop and move on.

My friends and I play "Spectator Rule" when it comes to lost balls in places that are in bounds (and not in major trouble). Where everyone saw it go just off the fairway into the rough but it's nowhere to be seen, maybe its under a leaf, maybe it went into a gopher hole, who knows. If there were spectators and cameras they could point you right to it because you know it was definitely in bounds still. So we just drop a free ball in a place we all agree is approximately where we saw it end.

Penalty/OB should be played as lateral. That is a lot of local rules but agree make it across the board. Free relief from a divot that is clearly defined and agreed by playing partners is great.

I like the 2 off the tee rule in junction with the 3 from where it went out. Gives you another option, seems fair to me. Me and the boys always move out of the divot.. you can fix pitch marks on a green in your putt line, you shouldn't get a terrible lie because of another player playing the hole before you if you hit it in the fairway

Guy saying “sir guy to you” had me laughing lol

When I coached middle school golf, most of the tournaments had a local rule to allow players to roll the ball one revolution out of a fairway divot.

“Didn’t you get two pars in a row once” got me 😂😂

Rick, I've never been a fan of podcasts but I'm loving these shorter clips that you've been putting out 👍

For 2 off the tee, changing the language of the rule would be easy.  Instead of "Stroke and distance", change it to "Stroke OR distance".

Guy was on form in this. Had me at “just play our own rules” when talking about 3 off the tee

I like a gallery drop rule. If we all see that the ball is in, but can't find it. Free drop where we all feel the ball would have been located if there was a gallery there watching the shot.

It makes zero sense to me that you can hook/slice a ball into the water and get to drop near the water, yet when you slice or hook one OB, you have to hit again from the tee box.

You should be able to drop where the ball went out, in my opinion

I love Golf and playing it as much as I can. But hate so many rules that penalize anything and everything as if we were playing professional golf for millions

I absolutely hate when I hit a ball inbounds and can’t find it. Just the other week I hit a beautiful drive straight in the middle of the fairway, but we had so much rain here that the ball plugged so deep in the ground that I searched everywhere and couldn’t find it.
Funny thing is, I went golfing there five days after when it was all dry, and I saw the very top of that exact ball peeking up from the dirt.
But on the day I golfed, I had to take a drop and re-hit. Which ended up giving me a seven on a par four.  
Frustrating indeed.

If “Players” is 5th major then we go back to 1974 when first “players” was played and include everyone who won it since 74” as a major winner. That would give Jack 3 more Majors, and Tiger 2 more.

Guy's cali accent is killing me 😂

When I have to take a drop ball I grab a ball from my bag and just toss it lol
A rule me and my friends do is if you hit your shot and you clearly see it land/finish in the fairway or 1st cut and can't find it then it's a free drop.

Yes, change the drop rule to be the arm extended out at waist height or just naturally from the side. This knee height is ridiculous.

Need to implement a rule where nerds that actually cite the rule book most leave the course immediately.