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New Rules of Golf for 2012-2015 launched

  • 24-10-2011 10:31am
    #1
    Keano
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    The R&A and the United States Golf Association (USGA) have announced the publication of the new Rules of Golf for 2012-15

    R&A

    No penalty for wind blowing ball after address on greens. About time they abolished that silly rule.


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  • #2
    golfnut1
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    Keano A Legend wrote: »
    The R&A and the United States Golf Association (USGA) have announced the publication of the new Rules of Golf for 2012-15

    R&A

    No penalty for wind blowing ball after address on greens. About time they abolished that silly rule.

    Yeah totally agree.


  • #3
    AGC
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    Some good changes including the ball moving after address and the hole-in-one prizes:D

    One which I would question is when in a hazard you can now smooth sand or soil once it is caring for the course. I can see lads moving a lot more than that


  • #4
    Trampas
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    Can someone define wind please.

    How do we know if gravity or wind moved the ball?


  • #5
    Keano
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    I presume it's all the same. As in if you address the ball and it moves on it's own without you touching it, then you cannot be penalised.


  • #6
    AGC
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    It is once you determine the player did not move the ball So it could be wind, a slope on the green, a train anything!


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  • #7
    Trampas
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    player swiping away an insect makes ball move? is that a penalty?


  • #8
    stockdam
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    Trampas wrote: »
    Can someone define wind please.

    How do we know if gravity or wind moved the ball?

    Read the site posted above.....

    "exonerates the player from penalty if their ball moves after it has been addressed when it is known or virtually certain that they did not cause the ball to move."

    Wind was only used as an example.


  • #9
    AGC
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    Trampas wrote: »
    player swiping away an insect makes ball move? is that a penalty?

    Always has been and always will!


  • #10
    Trampas
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    AGC wrote: »
    Always has been and always will!

    but it is a windy day. how do we know which wind moved it?


  • #11
    Corkblowin
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    If anything the player does could have moved the ball - then hes deemed to have caused it to move.


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  • #12
    newport2
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    Keano A Legend wrote: »
    No penalty for wind blowing ball after address on greens. About time they abolished that silly rule.


    Agreed. Still waiting for them to get rid of no repairing spike-marks too.

    Quick question. If you address the ball at a putt and the wind gusts and moves it, are you penalised if it hits your putter?


  • #13
    AGC
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    newport2 wrote: »
    Quick question. If you address the ball at a putt and the wind gusts and moves it, are you penalised if it hits your putter?

    You would be yeah. Would be regarded as a stroke


  • #14
    newport2
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    AGC wrote: »
    You would be yeah. Would be regarded as a stroke


    Thought so, thanks.

    So no penalty if the wind moves the ball on the green after address provided the wind moves the ball in the right direction! Pretty much a 50-50 chance you'll still be penalised.


  • #15
    PAULWATSON
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    New rules, i was thinking they might have banned rubbers on the end of those pencils used by a few chaps down at my club!


  • #16
    newport2
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    PAULWATSON wrote: »
    New rules, i was thinking they might have banned rubbers on the end of those pencils used by a few chaps down at my club!

    Indeed. Also a compulsary test to prove you can count past 5 before being allowed to play. I've played with a few golfers who just can't get to 6 or 7 when it comes to their own strokes!


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