OT-Ground under repair.

[Rob Marshall]

Played a tournament this weekend. Get to the first tee, get handed a card and rules sheet. Then the assistant tells us the left side of the third and the thirteenth are ground under repair. No white lines, nothing to determine what is  GUR or where it starts or where it ends.Never seen anything like. If you’re in a divot on the left side of the fairway do you get a drop? There was some minor weevil damage. Nothing major. I don’t get it. Why not just paint the area?

[Tim Martin]

Rob-I agree that the areas have to be marked and should be circled in white paint or staked.

[Rob Marshall]

I’m mind boggled by the lack of effort and professionalism. I did that I would be out of business.

[JohnVDB]

I’m mind boggled by the lack of effort and professionalism. I did that I would be out of business.

Ditto.  I’ve seen some poor marking jobs by pros who usually mark way to much, but to do that is a new level.  Not on,y how do you know you’re in it, but how do you know you’re out of it when taking relief.  Sounds like they should have just played lift, clean and place for the fairways on those two holes if they wanted to give relief from the weevil damage.

[Rob Marshall]

Thanks for the reply John. My thoughts exactly.

[Kalen Braley]

Just to play devils advocate because I haven't bitched about the Divot rule for awhile. 

But how do golfers really know a pitch mark is a pitch mark or a spike mark is actually such on the green?

Interesting how we deem golfers capable of identifying and following the near countless rules in the book, but they can't determine what is GUR in the fairway...

P.S.  Given a polite golfer should either replace a divot or fill it in with mix to REPAIR it, on a pure basis of frequency its far and away the most common Ground Under Repair on the golf course yet oddly not actually deemed such.