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Even without a captain at the helm--Carolyn Blevins is out as the commissioner and a search is under way for her replacement, the Ladies Professional Golfers Association continues to befuddle some folks with its moves.
The LPGA used an unusual local rule in the recent Safeway Classic at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, allowing players preferred lies in the step-cut rough, another name for the first cut of rough.
This lift, clean and place rule normally is reserved to be used if the balls are in the fairway and only when wet conditions exists. Players like these preferred lies and scores seem to go lower.
It seems that the LPGA rules officials felt that because of dry conditions that these areas of the golf course were spotty with some ground cracks, but did not want to mark them as ground under repair because then players could have dropped in the fairway.
Evidently they thought it was the right move, but received a lot of criticism from the press and local officials, who felt that golf never was meant to be played in perfect conditions.
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