A Rule Of Thumb
February 26, 2008The first written, laid down rules, come from the year 1744 by the Gentlemen golfers of Leith. The modern golf rules have their origin however in the 1754 established Royal & Ancient golf club of St Andrews (R&A). Today they are published jointly by R&A and USGA and have currently been revised for the end of 2007. A peculiarity in golf is the very large and extensively size of the playing field (the so-called golf course) so the rules must uncover a multitude of conceivable situations. For this reason the control device is more extensive than that of the most other sports and even seasoned players are occasionally uncertain as to which rule to use in any given situation.
Every national golf association (in Germany of the DGV) reproaches an expert commission for this purpose that answers debatable rule questions as far as it considers the circumstance to be unambiguous. If this is not the case then the R&A and/or the USGA is in the end asked for a so-called final “Decision”, therefore an official rule interpretation. These golf rules and also the Decisions are published (on meanwhile more than 800 pages) however they have a comparatively slight practical relevance because they treat mainly specials cases.
So although learning the basic rules is easy, learning the exceptions to the rules can be quite a headache.
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