[petermo]

One of the best lessons I ever had was watching Gary Player in about 1964. He'd hit his drive about 1 yard off the fairway on Durban Country Club's famous 5th hole into a terrible lie. As everyone knows Gary is a heck of a showman and was talking to his caddy and the gallery moaning about his "terrible lie" . I was walking with a former provincial player and wonderful golfer who had in hs time been a bomber pilot over Germany and I said to him " he has an awful lie". The response was unforgettable and has remained imprinted ever since ( bear in mind I was about 20) "He put it there!

At the end of the day golf (and life) is about responsibility - taking responsibility for one's own shots, taking responsibility for the places the ball lands and taking responsibility for solving the problem! We live in a world where everything is supposed to be fair - that's a dream world. Not everyone is 6'2" tall, not everyone has 20/20 vision, not everybody has an IQ of 160.

So your ball lands in a divot, get over it -YOU PUT IT THERE.

The measure of a person is not what he has but who he is - take responsibility and stop asking the R&A and USGA to make golf easier when it suits you!