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Thought the article was well done and made some valid points.
Thought the article was well done and made some valid points.
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I agree with Reilly 100%.
I often see The Rules of Golf as the most contradictory and capricious compilation of commands and criteria ever assembled.
Lee Trevino once said that the Rules of Golf ought to be able to be printed on a matchbook and I couldn't agree more. The number of original Rules totaled thirteen but today the book of "Decisions" which presumably clarifies and augments those original rules stretches over six hundred pages in length and even after all of this evaluation, many rules are still either unclear, illogical and often sorely lacking in common sense.
It has been said by many that the rules of a game can be whatever someone wants them to be and that they needn't apply to "real life". This may be true of "Chutes and Ladders" but I would think that a game which is the basis of a billion dollar industry and one that offers a means of income to tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people worldwide and for which many hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year facilitating its existence ought to have rules anchored more solidly in reality and practicality.
And when one adds such things as "local rules", such as "Lift, Clean and Place", well then the entire argument for the rules as doctrine or Holy writ goes out the window.
(In my opinion, of course).
-JP
Pretty good article and I agree with a lot of it. Rules have changed in golf before, so you never know what will happen. Hell, we could all be trying to jump each other's ball on the green still.
I agree with Reilly 100%.
I often see The Rules of Golf as the most contradictory and capricious compilation of commands and criteria ever assembled.
Lee Trevino once said that the Rules of Golf ought to be able to be printed on a matchbook and I couldn't agree more. The number of original Rules totaled thirteen but today the book of "Decisions" which presumably clarifies and augments those original rules stretches over six hundred pages in length and even after all of this evaluation, many rules are still either unclear, illogical and often sorely lacking in common sense.
It has been said by many that the rules of a game can be whatever someone wants them to be and that they needn't apply to "real life". This may be true of "Chutes and Ladders" but I would think that a game which is the basis of a billion dollar industry and one that offers a means of income to tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people worldwide and for which many hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year facilitating its existence ought to have rules anchored more solidly in reality and practicality.
And when one adds such things as "local rules", such as "Lift, Clean and Place", well then the entire argument for the rules as doctrine or Holy writ goes out the window.
(In my opinion, of course).
-JP
This is what happens when you have lawyers and accountants run the game.
The people who write the rules of golf also write the US tax code.