Made a big mistake last Saturday in the monthly medal... I didn't take my rule book.
Coming up the 9th my ball ended up on the road to the left of the green and I was snookered behind a tree.

The nearest point of relief that I could make a stance was just to the right of the tree, so in goes my teepeg. Then I measure out one club length not nearer the hole, in goes the second teepeg. I could see that when I dropped my ball it was going to roll out towards the fairway as there was a bit of a slope. I informed my playing partner that I was going to drop and could he witness that my ball didn't roll more than the allowed two clublengths...

"What?" he came back with... "No, you have to drop within the teepegs" he dribbled.

So I tried to explain that you only have to DROP within those teepegs and the ball is allowed to roll up to a further two clublengths, backwards or sideways, not nearer the hole... but he wasn't having it and I couldn't be bothered to argue with him, I don't know why, normally I would!

SHOULD HAVE HAD MY RULE BOOK!

I decided to play it from the road and bunted it onto the fraction of green I could actually see, some 50feet from the pin... three putted for a double bogey, the round is effectively over and 0.1 goes onto my h/cap

What I could/should have done....

Played the ball correctly using the proper drop as per the rules (as I knew I was right) and then allowed my playing partner to question the club secretary about it before I submit my card... and make him look like the ass that he clearly is.

Even if I were to get DQ'd it would still be the same 0.1 on my h/cap, but you can't get DQ'd if a) you are right b) you carry your bloody rule book!