Comments on: Basic Rules in Golf http://onlinegolfer.net/2007/05/12/basic-rules-in-golf/ Golf Club Reviews Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Lena http://onlinegolfer.net/2007/05/12/basic-rules-in-golf/comment-page-1/#comment-967 Lena Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:14:47 +0000 http://onlinegolfer.net/2007/05/12/basic-rules-in-golf/#comment-967 This is awesome !!! Good work This is awesome !!! Good work

]]> By: Andy Brown http://onlinegolfer.net/2007/05/12/basic-rules-in-golf/comment-page-1/#comment-886 Andy Brown Thu, 01 May 2008 08:20:54 +0000 http://onlinegolfer.net/2007/05/12/basic-rules-in-golf/#comment-886 In that respect Golf is a fascinating sport which has so many rules that sometimes, especially for amateurs, to be well versed with the rules could help them reduce a few strokes per round. If we were to play around with the word rules and brings laws into the ambit then it has a very interesting relation with golf. In fact, it is believed that the first instance of the word Golf was found in the Scottish constitution where one particular law stated that “ Men are forbidden from playing gowf because it distracted them from Archery”. There is a humorous instance of a caddy once asking his friend to assist him with carrying the bag to the player while he could go back and pick a head cover that had dropped some distance back. Now because another well meaning friend assisted him in the task of carrying the bag, the player was penalized two shots because that little moment of indiscretion meant the player had used two caddies, which was in clear violation of Rule 6-4. This had happened in a European Tour event sometime during the 1980’s. In that respect Golf is a fascinating sport which has so many rules that sometimes, especially for amateurs, to be well versed with the rules could help them reduce a few strokes per round. If we were to play around with the word rules and brings laws into the ambit then it has a very interesting relation with golf. In fact, it is believed that the first instance of the word Golf was found in the Scottish constitution where one particular law stated that “ Men are forbidden from playing gowf because it distracted them from Archery”.

There is a humorous instance of a caddy once asking his friend to assist him with carrying the bag to the player while he could go back and pick a head cover that had dropped some distance back. Now because another well meaning friend assisted him in the task of carrying the bag, the player was penalized two shots because that little moment of indiscretion meant the player had used two caddies, which was in clear violation of Rule 6-4. This had happened in a European Tour event sometime during the 1980’s.

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