While you might not believe it after watching your tee shot clank off a sprinkler head and bounce out-of-bounds, the Rules of Golf often can be your friend.
In our latest installment of the “Great Golf Debates” writers Christopher Powers and Joel Beall tackle the pressing question: What golf rules need to go?
How do you tell good friends they’re taking way too much time? Should I have been penalised for playing someone else’s ball inadvertently? Golf Digest answers these questions and more...
Specifically, the proposal calls for a “minimum slope indication limit” that would allow green-reading books to continue to use numbers, lines, arrows or other indications to identify slopes on greens, but only in areas of 4 percent slope (2.29 degrees) or greater.
Six years in the making and 12 months after a first draft was circulated to the golf world for comment, officials with the R&A and USGA have settled on a new, modernised version of the Rules of Golf that will go into effect January 1, 2019.
