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GOLFERS
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F. J. C. PIGNON
bo a rule of golf that disquallics a AWS, rules, instructions, decisions;;"Decisions" on the rules to elucidate |
pinyer for holing out with his own these, it seems, are becoming the complications which still arise, most important things in sport to-
Yet it was all very simple when ball, yet such rule exists. And there day.
there were only thirteen rules of goltare even worse examples of what So much to that players can be the original code embraced in 300 sens to be grave injustice.
What would you think, for instance, excused for saying to themselves words.
if, having holed out in one, you were To-day, in almost every golf "How far can I go without actually cheating?" and even the most pune-tournament there arises some question compelled by the rules to mark down
a five on your card? Lillons will take advantage of any about the rules to be settled.
This actually happened during rule which permits him to escape Take the cases of two professionals competition at Reigate Heath. punishment for his own mistakes. of high esteem who were disqualified player holed out in one at a short 1 that same player were to be after returning winning scores hole at which he could not see where accused of cheating he would be tournaments only this week. There most offended, yet the complication is no suggestion that they cheated, of rules makes unwilling chents of but they simply did not know enough
about the rules.
us all.
You may think you know the rules, but how can you when even those who make them scarcely know how to dedine them clearly?
WITHOUT doubt, the most complicated rules in all sport are those governing Kolt. I am convinced that not one golfer in a hundred really knows the rules of golf. How can be when there is the following formidable list?
Twenty-three definitions. Thirty-five rules for match play thith many sub-sections), (come Sixteen rules for stroke piqu. Special rules for stroke play four- somes, bogey competitions, best ball and four-ball matches, as well as
Local rules, a barrage of restrictions called the "Ellquctie of golf," and definitions of what is legal) and illegal in the form and make of clubs and balls
These, although covered in about twelve thousand words are apparently inadequate, since the Rules of Golf Committee has found it necessary to publish two ample volumes of
These are the facts in brief. The ball was lost," and while the caddies were searching for it the competitor returned to the place from where the ball was struck to play another shot so as to save time.
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In the meantime the first ball was the player therefore found, and continued to hole out with it. That may seem reasonable enough, since a player is permitted to play provisional ball when the first likely to be lost; but the provisional bail must be played before the competitor goes forward to seek the Arst.
Is
the ball finished.
A
On coming to the green the ball could not be found so the competitor went back to play another from the tee, adding the penalty for lost ball and eventually holing out in five.
It was not until he holed the second
ball, however, that the first was dia- covered in the hole.
What was to be done? The club committee was uncertain, so referred the matter to the Rules of Golf Com- mitice, who decided that the player holed out in five and not in one, be- cause the first ball was "lost"
WHAT obstructions is it pos- alble to move? Is it pos sible to move the ball from certain Moreover, the "Defalilons" and bad lies? May the club be ground- not the Rules state that if a "lost" ed...? These and a hundred and ball be subsequently found it may one other questions are raised by not be played. So, according to this players, not with any endeavour to confusing code, a ball that is found cheat but so an to gain full advantage remains lost..
of the rules.
one-
There are about 1,000,000 golfers in Britain. All of them wish to play honestly and fairly, but not tenth of them can fully understand the present code.
TECHINICALLY, the ball is "lost" or "abandoned" im- mediately the player goes back to play another, even though he has not expended the five minutes he is allowed for searching for the ball.
And here's another puzzle! How ridiculous It seems that there should rules.
For their peace of mind, let the Rules of Golf Committee, which is be- ing reconstituted, give a lead in the sporting world by simplifying the
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