New rules of Golf
Rule #1 A ball sliced or hooked into the rough shall be lifted and placed on the fairway at a point equal to the distance it carried or rolled into the rough with no penalty. Players should not be penalized for uncontrollable mechanical phenomena.
Rule #2 A ball hitting a tree shall be deemed not to have hit the tree. This is simply bad luck and luck has no place in a scientific game. The player must estimate the distance the ball would have traveled had it not hit the tree and can play the ball from there.
Rule #3 There shall be no such thing as a lost ball. The missing ball is on or near the course and will eventually be found and pocketed by someone else, making it a stolen ball. The player is not to compound the felony by charging him or herself with a penalty stroke.
Rule #4 If a putt passes over a hole without dropping in, it is deemed to have dropped. The law of gravity supercedes the law of golf.
Rule #5 Putts that stop close enough to the cup that they can be blown in, may be blown in. This does not apply to balls more than 3 inches from the hole. No one wants to make a travesty of the game.
Rule #6 There is no penalty for so called out of bounds. If penny pinching golf course owners bought sufficient land, this would not occur. The golfer deserves an apology not a penalty.
Rule #7 There is no penalty for a ball hit into a water hazard as golf balls should float. That they do not is a technical problem that manufacturers have yet to overcome. Golfers should not be punished for manufacturer?s shortcomings
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