{"id":4661,"date":"2026-04-26T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecmensgolfclub.com\/staging\/5293\/?p=4661"},"modified":"2026-05-01T08:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:44:50","slug":"posting-season-play-ball-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecmensgolfclub.com\/staging\/5293\/posting-season-play-ball-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Posting Season, Play the Ball Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We are playing the ball down during our posting season<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If a player believes that they might be entitled to relief under the Rules of Golf (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usga.org\/content\/dam\/usga\/images\/rules\/rules-modernization\/golf-new-rules\/Sample-Rule-16-Rules-of-Golf-A5v0_10_RULE-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">16.1 Unusual Ground Conditions<\/a>) they should check with their opponent or at least someone in their foursome before taking relief.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BTW, the USGA link above has some really good visual info explaining relief options, Including<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">16.1 Abnormal Course Conditions (Including Immovable Obstructions)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">16.2 Dangerous Animal Condition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">16.3 Embedded Ball<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">16.4 Lifting Ball to See If It Lies in Condition Where Relief Allowed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are playing the ball down during our posting season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rules"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Board of Directors","author_link":"https:\/\/ecmensgolfclub.com\/staging\/5293\/author\/bod\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"We are playing the ball down during our posting season","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmensgolfclub.com\/staging\/5293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmensgolfclub.com\/staging\/5293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmensgolfclub.com\/staging\/5293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmensgolfclub.com\/staging\/5293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmensgolfclub.com\/staging\/5293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4661"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ecmensgolfclub.com\/staging\/5293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"https:\/\/ecmensgolfclub.com\/staging\/5293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmensgolfclub.com\/staging\/5293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmensgolfclub.com\/staging\/5293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmensgolfclub.com\/staging\/5293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}