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| I have not yet begun to procrastinate |
Quite the laundry list of rules changes. Many of them I really like! The USGA and R&A have drafted more than 100 proposed changes to the Rules of Golf with the goal of simplifying the rules and making them easier to apply. While the amendments will not go into effect until Jan. 1, 2019, they represent what will be the most significant rewrite of the rules book in more than 30 years. Golf.com Also: USGA Rules Hub -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | ||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Did they include a dress code? Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Exceptional Circumstances |
I like almost all of them. Most are common sense and pace of play rules. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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I hope they expanded the Mulligan allowance. Mine get used up every round.This message has been edited. Last edited by: chp37, | |||
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| I have not yet begun to procrastinate |
I like the loose impediment removal allowed in bunkers. (now "penalty areas") Where I play, stones in bunkers are not uncommon. I don't like launching them at my playing partners or them at me! If the PGA would kick more pros in the ass and speed up play by giving out penalty strokes more often, it would hopefully speed up the wannabes too. -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
lots of things to speed up play and basically incorporate a lot of the things people already do such as checking a ball ID without announcing it "Checkin the ball number Boss" etc. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
I like most of the proposed changes. They are like the things a lot of recreational golfers do already - sort of common-sense. I wouldn't allow the removal of loose impediments in a bunker. Hit it in the bunker, and you should pay the price. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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As some one who spends half their game in bunkers I agree. You should be penalized for the inability to avoid. Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies. Gene Hill | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
I really like the 3 minute rule for a lost ball search. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon |
What? You don't like tank tops and flip flops.  Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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| Exceptional Circumstances |
This one is gonna burn some hairs I always make a point of helping partners and opponents alike find their balls. It certainly speeds pace of play, but some people just take too damn long before they decide that they need a drop ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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Loose rocks can really mess up my mack daddy wedge  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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Those were my thoughts. I liked seeing practical golf have an influence. I like the 3 min lost ball rule. That will just force me to accept it's gone quicker, and save me a half hour per round. | |||
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Political Cynic |
these were discussed during my tournament today and for the most part they're welcome and long overdue [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
One of the ones I have advocated for a long time ~ fix spike marks on green. | |||
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| Ermagherd, 10 Mirrimerter!  |
I agree, within reason. Some nimrod will spend 5 minutes creating the "perfect" path to the hole on his 45ft bogey putt This one is ripe for abuse, and could actually slow down play I quit school in elementary because of recess.......too many games --Riff Raff-- | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I like the max score on any one hole.  "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Too clever by half |
I assume you mean not just drop, but return to the spot where the ball was struck to drop, right? Stroke AND distance, right? This is one that bedevils recreational golfers. They are the most likely to lose balls because their shots are more often wayward, and of course they don't have marshalls, fans, and forecaddies looking for them. Most, of course, ignore the rule, drop where they are looking and go. Wrong, but that's what they do, and it speeds up play. New rules allow 3 minutes to look for the ball but shaving 2 minutes off the search is nothing compared to the time to walk the potential 200-250 yards back to where the ball was struck, 40 seconds to strike the ball then the time to walk to where the third shot lies. I don't like this one: New rule: relief from a red penalty area on the opposite side from where the ball last entered that penalty area, unless the Committee adopts a Local Rule allowing it. My course is very difficult with water on 12 holes, 8 of them with water on 2 sides, and the drainage is such that the drops near the waters edge are very penal. For this reason, every hazard on the course is red stake which currently offer 4 types of relief instead of 2. Truth is going to the opposite bank isn't used often because, A, it is impractical, and, B, few people even know of or think about about this option. Here, it can be an important one, I don't want to lose it. Local rule would retain this, I guess, but ours isn't the only course where this could really make a difference.This message has been edited. Last edited by: jigray3, "We have a system that increasingly taxes work, and increasingly subsidizes non-work" - Milton Friedman | |||
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Security Sage |
One of the other proposals is 40 seconds to take a stroke. RB Cancer fighter (Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma) since 2009, now fighting Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. | |||
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From reading there Reason for the change section it looks like there hoping it will encourage people to go ahead an hit the provisional before looking for the ball. I try to do this on a few of the courses I play. | |||
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