GOLF CHANGES IN RULES
LONDON, September 21.—A business meeting of the Royal and Ancient Gold Club of St. Andrews last night approved new rules of golf, which will come into force on January 1, 1950. Among them, the penalty for a ball Jost, out of bounds, or unplayable has- been reduced from stroke and distance to distance only. In stroke play, the nearer ball if in the way of the other ball, bust be played, not marked. ' A loose impediment is defined as any natural object not fixed or growing on the course. An obstruction is defined as anything artificial created or placed on the course, and anything temporarily left on the course. This covers the “beer bottle” incident involving Harry Bradshaw, in this year’s open championship. He could now pick the ball out of this obstruction.
The two stroke penalty is abandoned. Penalties for all breaches of the rules except those regarded as deliberate, will be one stroke, both in match and stroke play. For a deliberate breach the penalty will be the loss of the hole in match play and disqualification in stroke play. The existing stymie rule is retained.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 September 1949, Page 8
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