Remove penalties for grounding club in a hazard

[DavidHayes]

(09-06-2013 10:11 PM)ocepek Wrote:  

(08-13-2013 10:09 PM)DavidHayes Wrote:  Simonko, it was the "greens would become very sandy" aspect that lead to us retaining this prohibition.

It would be simple to prohibit practice strokes that touch the sand when the ball is in a bunker and just let the player lightly rest the club on the sand similar to playing a ball that lies through the green. A player is prohibited from pushing down hard on a club to get under a ball in the fairway so the same rule would apply in a bunker.

Yes, it was simple to do that (in both Codes).