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So if I spill beer on my disc is it OB?

At our local course we play the Jesus rule. If you can walk on the water it's no longer OB.

How about some more difficult examples. 1) A bridge over a dry inbounds gully. There's a bush under the bridge. Disc is stuck in the bush, not on either playing surface. Players choice? 2) what if it's a very low bridge like 1' clearance? What about 6"? 3) What if it's 10' in the middle but...

If you have two or more playing surfaces stacked (ie bridge, stairs, etc) is there a rule that determines which surface you can play from? Or is it player discretion?

Does anyone know when the first course was put in at Stoney Creek? I was under the impression that there wad a pole course there in the late 70's and that it was the first course in Michigan. I'm just trying to see if I can verify it.

Another, somewhat unrelated, thing to remember is: A jump putt from 9.8m is still a foot fault even if everyone on your card said you were outside 10m. I can't imagine someone calling you on it after they said it was OK but they could.

I think several people misread the original post. In example 2 the player did notify the TD. He was on the card with him.

There's a big question about what does arrive at your disc mean. We timed the amount of time starting from when the player first arrived at the disc with his bag still on his back. It was a completely open 30' putt. Setting the bag down, marking the disc, replacing the thrown disc in the bag...

Your 30cm starts at the back of the solid obstacle. It doesn't matter if the tree is 30cm in diameter or 30 miles in diameter. same rule.

This is already an issue when your disc lands in front of a solid obstacle and you're allowed to take your stance behind the object. Stances close to obstacles like that are actually pretty easy to judge because it's almost always a stand and deliver throw. Either way I don't see it being a...

I think that as long as you can be involved in the game in terms of paying attention, hearing warnings, knowing when it's your turn, there's no problem with earbuds. If you are so involved in your own little world that you are interfering with play it would be perfectly reasonable for someone to...

Instead of designating an area as "no playing surface" It could easily be designated as either OB or a casual relief situation. These can both be done with existing rules as long as the TD is on the ball. If the TD is not on the ball I don't think additional rules in terms of designations of...

The unsafe/Unplayable lie rule has been renamed the optional rethrow rule and involves going back to the previous lie with a stroke penalty. It really doesn't apply here because the OB lie would allow the player to go back and throw from the previous lie with a stroke penalty anyway. If the...

What Chuck is trying to describe as "place your back foot down" and what Feldberg is demonstrating by dragging his foot are not the same thing. The reversing direction to put you back foot down that Chuck is trying to describe is legal the drag your foot going by as you fall forward that...

Another way of handling this is for the yeller to intentionally throw is shot also OB and then both players retee throwing 3 and it's basically the same thing as giving the original thrower a free retee.