Fellow Competitor

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I have just seen this on another board.

“Well I got a call from the USGA about this one with an interesting response.
1. Fellow Competitor refers to anyone in the field for a stroke play event (not just your group)“

What other rules are we not playing by?
 

Having the USGA calling you with a message contrary to what’s said in the Rule Book ???
That’s new.. :-O

(From the definition of competitor />”...A “competitor’’ is a player in a stroke-play competition. A “fellow-competitor’’ is any person with whom the competitor plays.)

Hit it where they mow
 
I have just seen this on another board.

I saw that. Never trust a paraphrase.

 
 

The USGA has now confirmed that
‘a “fellow-competitor” is any person with whom the competitor plays (i.e. they are in the same group). Thus, the definition has not changed.’

What other rules are we not playing by?
 

AAA, I don’t know any of the particulars of this case but…

I have seen ‘the USGA’ used as a label for people who are USGA Committee members (i.e., volunteers)—some of those people are very good with the rules and some of them are horrible.

Also, back when I could be labeled, ‘the USGA’, a national (U.S.) golf magazine misused a quote from me in an article that had the facts wrong (an article about the Stewart Cink bunker case from 2008) despite me clarifying the facts repeatedly with the original writer (who ulitimately passed the quote along to someone else to misuse).

As Steb suggested, remain skeptical.
 

RG

I was. That is why I contacted the USGA myself and confirmed the correct interpretation.
The original poster has now had confirmation that the original advice to him was wrong.
My contact was with a Rules Associate. I assume his was also.

What other rules are we not playing by?
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