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Every four years (or “leap years”, as Golf’s old sages prefer to call it) the Rules of Golf are amended by the two main governing bodies of Golf; The R&A and the United States Golf Association.  Given that 2008 is a leap year, the 31st Edition of the ‘Rules of Golf’, will become effective on January 1st, with a number of significant changes to the regulations.

R&A rules secretary David Rickman said the 28 amendments to 34 rules in the 2008 rulebook were being made in an attempt to improve clarity and make penalties more proportionate to the offences.

For those who are interested, and I realize this isn’t going to be considered required reading by all Golfers, you can see a summary of the main amendments here.

As well as changes to the Rules of Golf you should also be aware of the changes to the conformance status of Drivers.  If in doubt, visit the searchable database for conforming and non-conforming Drivers, together with downloadable PDF documents.

I did wonder whether there would be sufficient interest in this, but I guess”rules is rules!” and if we didn’t have rules, then it wouldn’t be Golf (or….we’d be living in France!)

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