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Date: 05 Mar 2007 10:40:56
From: Al Tucker
Subject: An old Pulling the Pin Question
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I was watching an old All Star Golf episode the other day with Sam Snead v.
Bob Goalby playing a match during the fifties or early sixties.
I noticed that on longer putts the caddies didn't tend or pull the pin from
the cup. When and why did that become part of the rules - that the pin
needed to be pulled during a putt? It just looked so odd to see that. I
caddied during the mid-sixties as a kid and that was not the method I
remember - but it was a long time ago.
Good match.
Al
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Date: 07 Mar 2007 16:29:04
From: \R&B\
Subject: Re: An old Pulling the Pin Question
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"Al Tucker" <alberttucker@verizon.net > wrote ...
>I was watching an old All Star Golf episode the other day with Sam Snead v.
> Bob Goalby playing a match during the fifties or early sixties.
>
> I noticed that on longer putts the caddies didn't tend or pull the pin
> from
> the cup. When and why did that become part of the rules - that the pin
> needed to be pulled during a putt?
To be technical about it, the rule doesn't state specifically that the pin
must be pulled when you're putting. It merely states that there's a penalty
if the ball strikes the flagstick when a player is making a stroke from the
green. So as long as you putt with the pin in the cup *and don't make the
putt* there's no penalty. Furthermore, you can putt (use your putter) from
anywhere *off* the green, and if the ball strikes the flagstick, there's
still no penalty.
Randy
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Date: 05 Mar 2007 06:33:48
From: EdSmithers
Subject: Re: An old Pulling the Pin Question
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This thread wasn't about what I thought it would be about.
Ed
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Date: 05 Mar 2007 22:34:32
From: Al Tucker
Subject: Re: An old Pulling the Pin Question
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On 3/5/07 9:33 AM, in article
1173105228.762293.195700@64g2000cwx.googlegroups.com, "EdSmithers"
<spirosdarlotts@yahoo.com > wrote:
> This thread wasn't about what I thought it would be about.
>
> Ed
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Ed:
That's funny - I never even noticed the hand grenade implications.
Ajt
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Date: 05 Mar 2007 16:06:06
From: Tom Yost
Subject: Re: An old Pulling the Pin Question
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On Mon, 05 2007 22:34:32 GMT, Al Tucker <alberttucker@verizon.net >
wrote:
>On 3/5/07 9:33 AM, in article
>1173105228.762293.195700@64g2000cwx.googlegroups.com, "EdSmithers"
><spirosdarlotts@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> This thread wasn't about what I thought it would be about.
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>> Ed
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>Ed:
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>That's funny - I never even noticed the hand grenade implications.
>
>Ajt
"And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin.
Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the
number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be
three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting
that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number
three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy
Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my
sight, shall snuff it."
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Date: 05 Mar 2007 06:01:31
From: p4o2
Subject: Re: An old Pulling the Pin Question
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Al Tucker wrote:
> I was watching an old All Star Golf episode the other day with Sam Snead v.
> Bob Goalby playing a match during the fifties or early sixties.
>
> I noticed that on longer putts the caddies didn't tend or pull the pin from
> the cup. When and why did that become part of the rules - that the pin
> needed to be pulled during a putt? It just looked so odd to see that. I
> caddied during the mid-sixties as a kid and that was not the method I
> remember - but it was a long time ago.
>
> Good match.
>
> Al
In 1968 the rule was changed to require the pin be removed.
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