kips 6:56 Thu Mar 2
For All you Golfers out there
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Proposals have been unveiled for the biggest shake-up of the rules of golf "in a generation".
If the Royal and Ancient and United States Golf Association plans are adopted, golfers will see significant shifts in how the sport is played.
They include:
• Remove any penalty for accidentally moving your ball.
• Relax the protocols for taking free or penalty drops, with the ball dropped from only an inch above the ground, rather than shoulder height.
• Use fixed distances (20 or 80 inches) rather than club lengths to measure areas where a ball should be dropped.
• Reduce the time allowed to search for a lost ball from five to three minutes.
• Allow putting on the green with the flagstick left in the hole.
• Allow players to repair spike marks and animal damage on greens.
• Automatically allow the use of distance measuring devices.
• Ban caddies from lining up players as they prepare to hit.
• Recommend no player takes more than 40 seconds to hit a shot.
• Encourage players in strokeplay to implement "ready golf" rather than waiting until it is their turn to hit.
• Empower committees to set a maximum score for a hole (such as double par or triple bogey) to allow a player to pick up and move to the next hole.
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Replies - In Chronological Order ( Show Newest Messages First)
Grumpster
7:00 Thu Mar 2
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That's Jordan Speith fucked then!
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w4hammer
7:23 Thu Mar 2
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nothing to see here unless they institute a "free mulligan" per hole rule ;-()
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Lertie Button
7:38 Thu Mar 2
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My god next thing they will letting the ladies have a game at the weekend.
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,
8:14 Thu Mar 2
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They're trying to speed the game up.
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Tomsdad
8:25 Thu Mar 2
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Why not just let them use Buggies!
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Tadlad
8:27 Thu Mar 2
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Why not one kick and one throw each 9
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bertie
8:50 Thu Mar 2
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Decent changes, especially like the play when ready change. could have gone a bit further for amateurs. Such as making OOB the same penalty as a lateral water hazard to elimate the dreaded walk back to the tee.
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fraser
9:36 Thu Mar 2
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I like the last one...
I could throw my putter in the bin
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Too Much Too Young
10:41 Thu Mar 2
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FOOOOOORRRREEEEE
CUUUNNNNTTTT
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Too Much Too Young
10:42 Thu Mar 2
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CAAANNNNDDDDLLLEEESSS
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Any Old Iron
11:25 Thu Mar 2
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Some of these changes I don't understand.
When it comes to having a maximum score on a hole, what happens when you're having the round of your life and you're par playing the last. You then have a disaster with a lost ball and run up a quadruple bogey, but - the club has deemed the hole to have a maximum of a double bogey. What the fuck do you sign for?
And allowing for a drop to made from one inch is just a cheats charter. I can see loads of blokes just placing it in the perfect lie.
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andyd12345
2:56 Fri Mar 3
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Any Old Iron 11:25 Thu Mar 2
I think the point is the maximum you can score on a hole is double par. So you'll never be able to sign for worse than a 6 on a Par 3.
Makes sense to me.
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Spandex Sidney
4:16 Fri Mar 3
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It's about time these rules are updated, golf needs new blood and it's not a cheats charter if everyone plays to the same rule does it?
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Takashi Miike
5:19 Fri Mar 3
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slow play is the biggest problem for casual players like myself. its the reason I hardly play now, and one of the reasons I gave up a membership
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Takashi Miike
5:24 Fri Mar 3
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an example being, I played in a club championship and it took more than 6 hours to get round. slow players should be banned from clubs, also young blokes who use buggies wind me up. those things should be kept aside for rasberries and olduns, hire a fucking trolley you lazy cunts
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Grumpster
5:27 Fri Mar 3
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Problem TK is that too many average joe's are obsessed with their scores and so take an age looking for balls etc.
I mean I'm shooting around the 100 mark, so as if I give a shit if I lose a shot through a lost ball.
Incredible how many mates I've played with who I've seen cheat as well. Sad fuckers.
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JonWHUFC
5:35 Fri Mar 3
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I play golf at Orsett and I have had an ankle operation and I am struggling big time since then. I like most of the changes proposed to be honest and slow play kills my club on Saturday. Lots of the below though fall into the unwritten rules that are already there like picking up when you can't score etc. Unless it is policed it will make not much difference but I am all for it. The sooner I am in the bar with my game on the course these days the better. I am thinking of biting the bullet and joining socially anyhow. Fore. COYI. Wibble. Stella. xxx
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Takashi Miike
6:26 Fri Mar 3
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Jon, I like it at Orsett, nice course. I sound like a right misery but you honestly have to see how slow some of these characters can be on the simplest of shots. Another reason for packing it in was numerous fuckers on moody handicaps. cunts on 24 regularly shooting 42/43/44 pts in tournaments. I put in three mediocre cards for my hdcp and they gave me 14.5. hahaha, straight away fucking me, I'm not bitter though
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Takashi Miike
6:29 Fri Mar 3
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Grumps, I've never cheated though have seen plenty do it. You're only cheating yourself
another moan is not repairing pitch marks, so easy to do but so many cant be bothered
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mike hunt
6:35 Fri Mar 3
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mike a man after my own heart, slow play really grates my shit, and not repairing pitchmarks
cunts, shouldn't be playing the fucking game
zero tolerance me
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