So now 18 handicaps will shoot 4 to 8 strokes lower per round without lowering their handicaps. This truly creates another class of player.
Nothing better than giving a shot a hole AND giving drops where a ball isn't...
I will say one thing, by allowing the fairway "cone" option, at least a player doesn't have to convince you his ball was lost in area that would've producued a an unobstructed shot from a perfect lie.(but somehow is unfindable)
Now he just has to convice me his half topped skank went 275 yards....
Ironically, it gives me an out from giving in to a request that we make our native(real native as in bushes) areas lateral-which really opens up a kettle of fish when players "negotiate" where the ball crossed the margin of the "hazard"--a very different thing from where the ball is "likely to be lost" (I just love that phrase)
"your ball is lost right here sir"
"You found it?"
"No sir but right here is where it would be if we had found it"