Rule 1.a 5 A ball sliced or hooked into the Rough shall be shall be lifted and placed on the fairwayat a point equal in distance where it carried or rolled into the Rough with no penalty. The senior player should not be penalized for tall grass which the ground keepers failed to mow.
Rule.2. d 6.(B) A Ball hitting a tree shall be deemed NOT to have hit that tree, because this is simply bad luck and luck has no place in a scientific game. The senior player must estimate the distace the ball would have travelled if it had not hit the tree, and play the ball from there.
Rule 3.b.(G) There shall be no such thing as a lost ball. The missing ball is on or near the course and will eventually found and pocketed by someone else thereby making it a stolen ball. The senior player is not to compound the felony by charging himself with a penalty.
Rule.4.c.7.(H) 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.However this does not apply to balls more than 3 inches from the Hole. No one wants to make a mockery of the game.
Rule.6.a.9.(K) There is no penalty for so called "out of bounds" if the penny-pinching golf course owners bought sufficent land, this would not occur, therefore the senior player deserves an apolgy , not a penalty.
Rule.7.G.15.(z) There is no penalty for a ball in a water hazard, as golf balls should float. Senior players should not be penalised for any short commings of the manufacturers.
Rule 8.k.9.(S) Advertisements claim that golf scores can be improved by purchasing new golf equipment. Since this is financially impratical for many senior golfers, one-half stroke per hole may be subtracted for using old equipment.
Please advise all your senior friends of these important rule changes and keep multiple copies in your golf bag, Those not following the rules need to be provided a copy, because Golf is a game of integrity.
Happy Golfing from Scottish Bob
