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Originally Posted by spindles
That's not really true - even in local competitions you are scored by a marker, who makes judgements during the event. Professional events have marshalls whose job it is to make calls on the (quite a thick book) rules of golf.
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Hardly - officials rarely have to make calls in golf. Once every 3 or 4 rounds or so for a PGA pro - and usually, the pro already knows the call, he just brings an official in to cover his butt. The rules are very clear and the official is not judging a play in action, like in football or hockey - the calls are merely where a ball gets dropped or if an obstruction is moveable or not. The impact of an official in golf is negligble - I only recall one major screw up by an official at PGA level: When Tiger had his ball behind a boulder and asked the official if it was a moveable obstruction. The official said "if you can move it, go right ahead" - so Tiger pulled a few guys out of his huge gallery and moved the 500 pound boulder!