Hornings Canyon hole 18 OB
 

Is the swamp considered OB? I 'm not just talking the edge, Im asking if you are in the middle between the orange flags.

We played double their yesterday. Both groups were tied going into 18 and thanks to my erant 2nd shot we bogeyed it. The other team put theier 2nd in the swamp. It was found and 3rd shot was thrown from there and they pared out for the win. I personally think the swamp should be OB and have always took a penalty there. I failed to look at the tee sign befor throwing.

Is the swamp OB?

during the slosh out there in january the td deemed it "casual water"...

peace,
em

...which means...?

I've always played it O.B. If it's not considered that it should be.

Casual water usually means it's not O.B. and you don't lose a stroke.

The problem is how to define "the swamp." In August, there's no water at all, just a green grassy patch in a sea of yellow. Even now, there are dry spots.

I think even dry that should be O.B. as it adds to the hole and makes that upshot more to think about.

Swamp definition: a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water; especially : one dominated by woody .

How can it be deemed casual water if it is designated as a swamp?

I thought casual water was considered water that is not usually there.

I agree that there is not always water there but when there is...it's supposed to be there hence the word swamp.

I'm sure this must have already been addressed at some point.

The course is generally played with this NOT being OB but I can see an argument both ways. The problem I see is that there is no clear definition as to where the OB begins and ends.

The swamp cannot be played as OB because it is not clearly defined.

Also, for purposes of a tournament, an area is only OB if the tournament director clearly states beforehand that it is.

For the Chick Flick dubs fundraiser on Saturday we deemed the swap to be casual water. I agree it is not clearly defined. Plus it is not really a permanent body of water soon it will be dried up, and a moot point.

Cindy :)

oh, for heaven's sake... you know what that means.

No, I didn't know what it meant, for OB purposes. I don't play in tournaments.

oh... my bad... thought you were being facetious...

... me, i was being facetious.

peace,
em

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Just another thought. I think it should be OB to give players incentive to stay out of the swamp. I could see some trouble there on busy days with people tromping trough the swamp and causing some possible back ups and near misses. A lot of the times a players 2nd shot is blind coming over the hill and could easily hit someone searching for a disc in the swamp.

I deserved to lose I played pretty poorly, I was just wondering how you all played it.

Also sorry for all the typos in OP I was on the way out the door and didn't proof read.

Thanks for the input.

Scott's right, it is only marked as a swamp to warn folks of it, not to mark it out of bounds. During tournaments it is up to the TDs to make it out of bounds or not.

As far as making it an incentive to stay out of it by marking it out of bounds, I don't think folks purposefully throw into it to begin with, more of trying to make it across and failing at it.

Bob thanks for the reply, now I know the swamp is inbounds, Thanks.

I realize that people land in swamp because they are going for the pin.

However if the swamp was designated as OB it would change the hole as far as approaches go. I just asked the question mostly because of the little orange flags that were out in the swamp.

Thanks for sharing your property with us Bob.

The Flags where put out there so when you landed in said swap you would have something to tell you where you landed. In one spot the swamp can get a couple feet deep at high water times. Before the flags people would walk all over trying to find the disc out there. Telling where you land that far away is hard for many people with out the flags.

Hippy007
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