Code One General Comments

[Simonko]

(08-08-2013 05:02 PM)DocMiller Wrote:  10 R17-2b, Exception: just a general observation, why isn’t gravity included as some other agency? Sometimes, even a ball replaced on the putting green simply moves as the grass underneath gives way to the pull of gravity. It is “known” when there is direct observation. It is “virtually certain” when all other reasonable possibilities are eliminated. Sometimes the strength of the grass simply times out. Gravity is equally as relentless a force as the wind or water. Since wind cannot be directly observed, it need not receive more credit than does gravity.

Apart from gravity being constant throughout, I'd suggest it isn't an exception (both in the revised 18-2b/11 and in Code One) because the possibility that movement was due to the grounded club can't be sufficiently eliminated for VC to be established.