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nice post once again cg...take a lesson from it and never look down on someone for knowing the rules during a tourney..
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803.01 C is intended to protect a player where interpretation of a rule is unclear under a given situation, and a certified official is not available to rule. It is not intended to be used every time a player disagrees with the rules. .......
803.01C is not a magic pill that allows for bending the rules. It is a safety net intended to clarify situations not clearly covered, or correctly interpreted by players during play.
I would hope the cop would show discretion in not ticketing you for 27 in a 25....but if I were the judge and there was no question that you were doing 27 in a 25, I'd have to find you guilty.
If by "rules are rules" you mean applying rules without discretion, there aren't that many, either on this thread or in disc golf. Notice the footfaults and 30-second violations that aren't called.
If "rules are rules" means rules can be called and, if called correctly, should be upheld, well, I guess I'm one of those. Call me on a footfault, and I'll take the warning and throw again.
Yes I understand that David - all I am saying is that we have been, and continue to develop a rules culture focused not on how to apply the rules - but whether or not to apply them.
In this case - the original poster should have made an appeal to the TD before turning in his scorecard - if there was any real question about the penalty. Stewing on it for days - and then seeking a sympathetic ear by placing blame on everybody but himself does nothing more than promote the idea that people who enforce the rules are the offenders. That's just not right.
Craig-
One last point, and then we can, as they say, agree to disagree. Maybe the reason I'm being so pig headed about this, is because there was really no cheating or personal gain. There was no foot fault, no OB, no violation of any rule that compromised the integrity of the game or affected the round for others. We didn't have Judge Smails out on the course "improving his lie". Individuals that stretch the limits of the rules for their own betterment(word?) or break them all together, are scum bags, no doubt. Thanks for your opinion. Have a great day!
Craig-
One last point, and then we can, as they say, agree to disagree. Maybe the reason I'm being so pig headed about this, is because there was really no cheating or personal gain. There was no foot fault, no OB, no violation of any rule that compromised the integrity of the game or affected the round for others. We didn't have Judge Smails out on the course "improving his lie". Individuals that stretch the limits of the rules for their own betterment(word?) or break them all together, are scum bags, no doubt. Thanks for your opinion. Have a great day!