Feed: RSSMix.com Mix ID 439461 - AggScore: 46.1

Golf in New Mexico

---

How and When Do I Utilize the Provisional Ball Rule

Nobody wants to stand around for the better part of five and a half hours, watching other people play golf up ahead, while you're, well, just standing there.

There was a rule put into place by the people who write the rules of golf. This is the provisional ball rule. This rule is intended to speed up play.

Some people, that is people who are new seem to think the provisional ball is a "mulligan" or a "do-over". A provisional ball is not a mulligan or do-over. The provisional ball is legal and within the rules of golf. It will help to keep the pace of play better when it is used correctly.

Use the provisional ball if you think you hit your ball out of bounds. Also use the provisional ball if you think you lost your ball outside a hazard. There are some times when you can't use the provisional ball. Those times are when you think that your ball went into a hazard or a lateral hazard.

This is how it works: There are times when you hit the ball and you can't find it. Or you hit it and you know it is in bounds, you say out loud "provisional ball", and then proceed. You have to say "provisional ball". You can't say "I'll hit again".

You then can play strokes on the provisional ball up to the point where you believe your original ball to be.

What this does, it saves time. If you did not play the provisional ball, you would have to walk back to where you hit the ball to play another, but the provisional ball has done this for you.

This is how the scoring would go: What you need to do is count all the stokes you made on the original ball. Then you have a penalty stroke. Then count all the strokes that you made on the provisional ball.Now this is what happened, you hit your tee shot OB, so you would have to count that shot, you would then have a penalty stroke for hitting the ball OB, and don't forget you hit your provisional ball up to this point. So you are lying 3 and hitting 4.

OK, here is another scenario, you go up to where you thought the ball was lost and you find the ball in bounds and you hit a provisional ball, what do you do?

Easy, the provisional ball is like it has never been played. Just go and pick up your provisional ball. Any shots that you played on the provisional ball you don't need to count. Now all you have to do is just continue to play the original ball.

Ok, you are on the tee and you bang out a fade of 300 yards and you think it went OB. Now you are mad and you have lost your rhythm and you just top the ball 3 or 4 times down the fairway until you reach the point of the original ball. There is nothing finer than finding that original ball and, poof, all those topped shots on the provisional go away because from a scoring standpoint, they never happened.

provisional ball
golf Albuquerque New Mexico

The Amazing Land of Enchantment, Golf in New Mexico

---

Provisional Ball Rule

---

There was a rule put into place by the people who write the rules of golf. This is the provisional ball rule. This rule is intended to speed up play.

The Amazing Land of Enchantment, Golf in New Mexico (23)

---

How and When Do I Utilize the Provisional Ball Rule

Nobody wants to stand around for the better part of five and a half hours, watching other people play golf up ahead, while you're, well, just standing there.

There was a rule put into place by the people who write the rules of golf. This is the provisional ball rule. This rule is intended to speed up play.

Some people, that is people who are new seem to think the provisional ball is a "mulligan" or a "do-over". A provisional ball is not a mulligan or do-over. The provisional ball is legal and within the rules of golf. It will help to keep the pace of play better when it is used correctly.

Use the provisional ball if you think you hit your ball out of bounds. Also use the provisional ball if you think you lost your ball outside a hazard. There are some times when you can't use the provisional ball. Those times are when you think that your ball went into a hazard or a lateral hazard.

This is how it works: There are times when you hit the ball and you can't find it. Or you hit it and you know it is in bounds, you say out loud "provisional ball", and then proceed. You have to say "provisional ball". You can't say "I'll hit again".

You then can play strokes on the provisional ball up to the point where you believe your original ball to be.

What this does, it saves time. If you did not play the provisional ball, you would have to walk back to where you hit the ball to play another, but the provisional ball has done this for you.

This is how the scoring would go: What you need to do is count all the stokes you made on the original ball. Then you have a penalty stroke. Then count all the strokes that you made on the provisional ball.Now this is what happened, you hit your tee shot OB, so you would have to count that shot, you would then have a penalty stroke for hitting the ball OB, and don't forget you hit your provisional ball up to this point. So you are lying 3 and hitting 4.

OK, here is another scenario, you go up to where you thought the ball was lost and you find the ball in bounds and you hit a provisional ball, what do you do?

Easy, the provisional ball is like it has never been played. Just go and pick up your provisional ball. Any shots that you played on the provisional ball you don't need to count. Now all you have to do is just continue to play the original ball.

Ok, you are on the tee and you bang out a fade of 300 yards and you think it went OB. Now you are mad and you have lost your rhythm and you just top the ball 3 or 4 times down the fairway until you reach the point of the original ball. There is nothing finer than finding that original ball and, poof, all those topped shots on the provisional go away because from a scoring standpoint, they never happened.

---

Golf in New Mexico Home

---

The Amazing Land of Enchantment, Golf in New Mexico Golf in New Mexico was once a very good kept secret. But until just recent that is not the case. Before the word got out about golf in New Mexico, people would come here to visit Carsbad Caverns or the galleries in Santa Fe. Golfing in New Mexico has become a well known golf destination for high desert courses of the Southwest. With 4 distinct destinations for golfing in the Land of Enchantment, each one of them boasts about the many course that are located in each area. Not like other parts of the country, golf in New Mexico is at a fair value for high desert golfing. Go to Phoenix in the winter months and see how much you pay for golf there, that is not the case in New Mexico. If you would like to challenge yourself with courses that challenge your shot making ability but are still fair and at the same time see some of the most beautiful scenery in the United States, then New Mexico golf is something you have to try.

---

Golf in New Mexico, the Splendor of the Land

---

If you're heading to Carlsbad Caverns or the chic galleries of Santa Fe, golf in New Mexico, once a word-of-mouth secret among avid golfers, is a secret no longer.