Thread: Double-hit chip
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Old 07-13-2008, 12:20 AM
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Re: Double-hit chip

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Originally Posted by PA PLAYA View Post
I remember doing it years ago. Ball was in the thick stuff in a hazard, couldn't ground the club, couldn't take practice swings in the general area that was similar to the condition of the horrid lie. Huge swing, ball came out in slow motion, caught it with the leading edge of the club.

In essence, the fault wasn't mis-reading the lie, which is usually the case. The error occured in judgement, as I refused to do the rational thing like accepting the penalty and taking a drop.
In as sense, that amounts to the same thing.

You misread the lie as one in which taking a swing would usually be better than taking a drop...

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