RULES OF GOLF
SWEEPING REVISION AMERICAN PROPOSALS NEW YORK. Nov. 26. Every department of the game of golf is affected by a sweeping revision and . clarification of the rules of golf, announced hv tlie United States Golf Association, in a work which will require intensive study. Twenty-three typewritten pages were required to settle controversies and '‘increase the. assurance of fair play” iu this voluntary golf code. There are 16 changes in definition, 26 in the general rules, 12 in stroke play rules, and six in etiquette. All were approved by the Royal and Ancient Club (Scotland). They liberalise the rules on obstructions, water hazards, casual water, lost balls. ;nd addressing the ball. The gen-1 oral aim is tn keep the ball in a playable position. lor instance, the new definition of a player's stance requires him to keep both feet on the ground. This abolishes the placing of bricks or stones beneath the feet or building earthen footmounts to aid the stance. The player, also, must not kneel hereafter for putting purposes. In tournament play the referee becomes sole, judge, the umpire being abolished.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 7 December 1933, Page 3
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