a. A player hitting the fairway should have an advantage over the player hitting the rough. (Any part of a player’s ball touching the fairway denotes a fairway hit and he can move his ball.)

b. Allowing the ball to be rolled in the rough does NOT penalize the player for not hitting the fairway.

c. A player rolling his ball in the rough often gets a lie as good as, if not better, than in the fairway by sitting his ball on top of the grass.

d. A player hitting his ball in the rough and the ball rolling up next to a tree or tree root gets to roll his ball away (scorecard length) instead of having to take a drop and a one-stroke penalty.