[Melvyn Morrow]

The Question; Is taking a run-up a fair way to play golf

I attach an article from the UK Daily Mail for your inspection. After reading the article, I wonder what the general opinion of GCA.com is about this. 



What some may consider they need to do to win, some just to gain a few yards, but what will happen to the game with its codes and rules.

I leave it to you to form and hopefully voice your own opinion on the subject.

Melvyn

[Josh Stevens]

Yes.  I tried it and missed.

[Scott Warren]

For shame, Melvyn. Reading the Daily Mail will rot your brain.

[Ally Mcintosh]

I used to do this now and again when I was more of a cricket player... It was a decent party trick... Like moving down the pitch to a spinner and lofting him straight over his head for six...

[Matthew Runde]

I think there was also an I Love Lucy episode that featured it.  For a while, I've thought about using more of a baseball swing, where you'd kick your forward leg.  I tried it, recently, on the range.  I'm too poor of a golfer to do it easily, though.

[Melvyn Morrow]

Scott

There but for the Grace of God go I… I could have been satisfied with the Times but thanks to a Single Malt, I was turned away from it at the last minute. The Independent loomed, but its looked just like road kill. Suffered a Close Encounter of the Obnoxious Kind with the Guardian, before settling for a while with the Telegraph, but alas it’s just the kiddies crossword that offers anything close to a serious Editorial section, so am now seen glimpsing at my wife’s Daily Mail. It has a fair F1 spread occasionally.

Nevertheless, yes ‘banged to rights’, it’s the Mail, oops.

Melvyn

PS Ally  Its golf we are talking about

[Anthony Gray]

  Sounds like a great way to putt.


   Anthony

[Melvyn Morrow]

Nothing new there then, Anthony.

Love to see it used in a deep faced bunker – Medics need to be on standby – perhaps?

Melvyn

[Joe Bausch]

Probably 10 years ago or more I was tuning into the Golf Channel where they did a compressed show on the final round of competition in the Oldsmobile Scramble (now the Buick Scramble).  One big fellow from a team in the finals was using the Happy Gilmour swing on drives and he was hitting the tar out of the ball, I believe getting distances way over 300 yards.

[Michael Dugger]

Yeah okay Happy Gilmore. 

[Dan Herrmann]

Paddy Harrington does this extremely well, having been a hurling player.

[David_Tepper]

The one constant in the history of golf is change. Courses, equipment and technique have all changed over time. Is there anything in the rules of golf stating a golfer must hit the ball from a standing/stationary position? I think not.

[Jack_Marr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wguFY0DDoAU

[Rob Rigg]

We used to do this on the range sometimes - of course I lived in Toronto at the time and we were all hockey players . . . in high school, and that was with 250cc heads - contact must be a piece of cake with the 460s!

When you caught the ball flush it was unreal - of course that didn't always happen - in which case everyone in a 325 yards radius should have been wearing, well, hockey gear and a helmet to keep them safe.

[Sam Maryland]

That article was published on 4-1-09, right??

Here's a little video of Andre Agassi taking a running rip at it, looks like he catches it pretty solid...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfTARgd8XBg

[Jim_Kennedy]

Melvyn,
I think rule 14-3 could be applied to the Happy Gilmore type of stroke.

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