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| NEW RULINGS IN SENIOR GOLF |
One day, a man came home and was greeted by his wife dressed in a very sexy nightie. 'Tie me up,' she purred, 'and you can do anything you want.' So he tied her up and went golfing.
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New Rulings in Senior 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. The senior should not be penalized for tall grass which ground keepers failed to mow.
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 senior player must estimate the distance the ball would have traveled if it had not hit the tree and 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 himself or herself with a penalty.
Rule 4-If a putt passes over a hole without dropping, it is deemed to have dropped. The law of gravity supersedes the Rules of Golf.
Rule 5.-Putts that stop close enough to the cup that they could be blown in, may be blown in. This does not apply to balls more than three 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 senior golfer deserves an apology, not a penalty.
Rule 7-There is no penalty for a ball in a water hazard, as golf balls should float. Senior golfers should not be penalized for manufacturers' shortcomings.
Rule 8- Advertisements claim that golf scores can be improved by purchasing new golf equipment. Since this is financially impractical for many senior golfers, one-half stroke per hole may be subtracted for using old equipment.
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How about St. Lucie County's own Jim Herman on Sunday at the 2010 US Open at Pebble Beach-standing on the tee at 18, Jim had a decent chance to shoot 65 which would have been the low round of the tournament. Going for broke, he ended up triple-bogeying the hole to finish at 68, tied with only three other men for low round of the day.
And what a bizarre day it was. Kudos to Graeme McDowell for hanging in there amid all the mayhem to win by a stroke.
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It may surprise you to know that you can still salvage this golf season despite whatever struggles you are experiencing. There are golf instruction DVDs available on-line and in golf shops so why not be pro-active and start having some fun out there?
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Revised 09-03-2012
