Animal Scrapping / burrows | Golf Monthly

Which, as rulefan will know, was precisely why I questioned the use of "scrape" as a condition eligible for relief.

Going back to the OP's question, if you have a hole in the ground that is like a tunnel (i.e. a roundish hole with a roof) which clearly has been made by an animal to disappear into, you don't need droppings. It helps too if you have local knowledge (e.g. knowing where the rabbit population generally hangs out, or that in one particular part of my course there are badgers). On the negative side, it helps to know that animals do make depressions in the ground to lie in, that birds may scrape away the surface for a dust bath, etc.

I will be refereeing next week on a course I don't know and will be popping in to get a copy of the local rules and to find out if there are any particular things I should know about the course - and that will include whether I might expect rabbits, foxes, badgers, or any other burrowing animals such as haggises and where in particular they hang out and dig holes. If I have time, I'll walk round as well. Local knowledge and familiarity rather than the examination of poo.