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Video Tutorial: What are Preferred Lies?

Written by  Andrew Wild on Thursday, 28 April 2011
What are preferred lies? Leaderboard's Andrew Wild explains what to do if the course's condition isn't helping your game.




Hi let me talk about ‘preferred lies’.

Over the winter period when the ground conditions aren’t great at golf clubs most clubs will give you the option of doing preferred lies. 

Now, when you’re playing golf, if your ball lands on the cut surface of the fairway, you’re allowed to use preferred lies. 

And what you do is you mark your golf ball, you then lift the ball to clean it, and if you imagine a ‘D’ of a snooker table, you’re allowed to put the ball back in, not nearer the hole, but within six inches. 

So if you imagine a ‘D’ around that mark, you can place the ball anywhere in that area, not nearer the hole. Once it is replaced pick the marker up and the ball is now in play.
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Andrew Wild

Andrew Wild

Andrew manages all aspects of Sandford Springs including Food and Beverage, Golf, Finance and Memberships.

Andrew originally met the Chairman, Paul Gibbons, when he was an assistant Golf Pro at Reading Golf Club 28 years ago.

Interestingly, 15 years later Andrew was giving Paul a series of lessons, during which he mentioned there was a club in Hampshire which was up for sale. After going to visit the club, Mr Gibbons ended up buying Sandford Springs. 

Andrew joined the company a couple of years later and six years on, he became the General Manager at the club they had first discussed all that time ago.

Andrew has a deep passion for the game of golf, which aids his enthusiasm in all his endeavours at Sandford Springs. Aside from playing, he enjoys simply being around the golf club and takes a great interest in looking after his members.

He believes that the atmosphere at Sandford Springs is second to none and finds it such a pleasure to be involved with the club that, in his own words – "Sometimes it doesn't even feel like work".

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