positive penalty

[OnyxCarp]

I'd like to apply for a positive penalty, see enclosed screenshot



Round 4 Period 23 PGA18
It was my 4th < 5 cm putt in this tourney, but this one really enrages me.
<<See scorecard for the effect this has on final score>>

[MiMiC]

Hi Onyx,

First, I feel I should explain the reason for the gimmies not being there. It is required because the penalty strokes will not work otherwise. Just as importantly though, you would never see gimmies in a tournament, and so we feel it is legitimate to 'make every putt count'.

It is certainly a bitter pill when you have one hanging on the edge of the cup, a you have in the above image. I have laughed at it when I have experienced it, and we don't have the benefit of waiting for heavy footsteps or earth tremors to make it drop.

It is, I'm afraid, just one of those things.

[OnyxCarp]

Thanks for a quick reply.

It is not the fact that I'd request a gimme - that would only ease the pain if your ball ends up within a few centimetres of the hole for a free extra stroke. Any golfer could live with that, and I've had more gimmes in my JNPG career than euros in my bank account lately. My issue consists of the fact that many long putts or otherwise (in my case untypical well executed) approaches to the cup seem to end up in putting distances that are statistically more suitable to a microcosmos than normally acceptable. It just smells of a coded cup approach ruleset that is not well implemented, or artificially introduced (JNPG AI players tend to do this putting profiency of 99,9% the same way).

I fully understand that I have to adress this issue to the PP bug report form (if only to report that there are dead bugs lying on the cup's edge). Which I have already done. Please consider this request as fulfilled - the rage has subsided. One of those thing, yeah, I can relate to that.

Keep up the good work!

OnyxCarp (John)