I’m sure it must not be the case, but I’m starting to wonder if my playing partners and I are the only people actually taking notice of the Out Of Bounds rules. Every time I play, I always encounter a player from another fairway playing their ball on the wrong side of the line of white marker posts.

The last time I played Ruxley Park in Kent, I was waiting to tee off on the 12th when a player appeared out of the woods from the fairway on the right and walked to his ball in the middle of my fairway and hit it over the trees back to his fairway. Not only had he walked through a line of white OOB markers to play this shot, he was actually playing his ball from the wrong course! He was supposed to be playing the 17th on Cray Valley which runs parallel to the 12th at Ruxley Park.

Maybe I take it too seriously.

Cheers Keith

Your not taking it too seriously at all. No point having the white markers if you dont use them. Whats the point playing if your not playing to the rules of the game. All my playing partners and I play the OOB rule. If you hit it out of bounds, take a 1 stroke penalty and hit another from where youve just hit the one OB from.

You carry on Keith, save in the knowledge your playing the game in the way its suppose to be played!

Rich

Totally agree Richard, my colleagues and I also play to the rules (all of them) but have to confess for every one of us that do there are 3 that don't !!!!!
It boils down to what you as an individual want to achieve or get from the game, same as cheating, your not cheating your partners your cheating yourself.

I just know why their playing partners let them get away with it. Don't they mind potentially losing to someone not playing by the rules of golf?

K.

Fortunatly on my course there are no white OOB markers. Although there are the rocks, and the road. Oh, and the Atlantic Ocean, so if you hit OOB you dont really have the option of playing from where it landed.

Get in there and play it, you wuz.

Sorry to hijack the tread but can you play off another fairway if there are no white markers?

As long as there are no White Markers, or a local rule that says adjacent fairways are interal OOB then you can play off them. Just don't interefere too much with groups playing that hole.

I always play off other fairways if I use my driver off the tee, no other way to play it when you have a slice as bad as mine

Some courses it's actually easier and shorter to go the scenic route.  I did it once at Wokefield, but that was only because I wanted to say hello to Wayne. 

It was appreciated too Tim, and bearing in mind there was 3 of us watching you, you connected well also