During the Jomez coverage, Nate commented that the rule for marking a lie might have to be re-looked at. He said due to the way some holes were set up, it would be possible to mark your lie - has to be marked towards the target which is the basket - and have your stance in front of your marker for your actual throw. For example, a hard turn your marker is placed towards the target/basket but you have to throw 'backwards' as your best option. So you stand behind the marker (away from the target/basket), but with the marker actually behind you based on the direction of throw.
Maybe the definition of target should be where you are throwing to; which isn't always the basket.
I have to admit, I used to think that the target was were I was aiming for my disc to go - not necessarily the basket.
(I don't recall which round it was that Nate made the comment).
yeah I think that's an odd situation. I didn't bring it up because that's not bad course design; it's a lack of thorough rule design. I think the mando rule is fairly comparable; maybe if there's a sharp bend in the fairway, a TD can state that the cornermost tree can be played as if it were a mando for purposes of stance only, and if a player wants to he/she can declare that they are playing toward that mando instead of the basket (so as not to break stance rules). There's probably holes in that as it's just off the top of my head.