robdeforge
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I like what y'all are saying.
But realize that in casual play, people are generally not going to want to follow anything arbitrary such as mandos. Some will some won't. I say this because I play with both tournament types and weekend warriors that don't know or could not care less about the competition rules.
Water OB is pretty obvious, or physical boundaries, but beyond things like that it doesn't sell well in the casual play world
Competitions can make up rules and artificial boundaries because people will accept the challenge.
But, as discussed above it becomes a question of what is watchable. People will accept almost any challenge no matter how ridiculous if they are participating. It's a game, or THE game. But, for watching we want to see things that make sense.
Chuck is big on moderating how punitive the course is for errant throws. I like this a lot. It allows creating a course in areas that don't have all the perfect elements such as trees, while still creating challenge.
All this to say, I'm not a fan of the sand trap bunker or buncr as I'm seeing here.
Is buncr correct? I've never seen that before, but I'm not much of a golfer.
It was really interesting to play with people who started out during the COVID boom who wouldn't play OB/mandos, but did score their rounds and were somewhat competitive between each other. Fast forward to now and they do play with both - at some point, maybe when they thought about playing in tourneys, they changed! So not only do both groups exist but sometimes people move from one to the other lol