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Video Tutorial: Your Putting Line

Written by  Andrew Wild on Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Andrew Wild explains the rules regarding touching the line of your putt, which is something every golfer needs to be very careful about.




Now, I've got a pitch mark which is in the line of my putt, which I can repair as I would normally do. I'm then entitled to tap that area down. I'm not allowed to touch the line of the putt with my putter in any other way - if I do, it would be a two-shot penalty. 

I've got a bit of debris here which I can pick off, and that's fine too - but what I can't do is scrape the area with my putter. That's a two-shot penalty straight away. I can't tap anything down other than the pitch mark.

Make sure you abide by those rules or you'll incur the two-shot penalty.
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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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