Sir, – Not all easing of restrictions is to be welcomed.
The return of bunker rakes and the resulting prohibition of placing the ball in the bunker was almost certainly responsible for a lost shot on the last hole (a testing par three) of my 13-hole four-ball competition the other day, faced as I was with the dreaded plugged or “fried egg” lie.
The resulting bogey four cost my playing partner and I the 18th place. – Yours, etc,
RONAN McDERMOTT,
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Rathgar,
Dublin 6.