THE USGA WOULD LIKE TO INFORM ALL GOLFERS
There is a possibility of MAJOR rule changes to the game of golf, this may occur sometime after November 4.
This is only a preview as the complete rule book is being written now.
Here are a couple of basic changes.
Golfers with handicaps:
- below 10 will have their green fees increase by 35%
- between 11 and 18 will see no increase in green fees
- above 18 will play for free and even get a check from the club/course played
The $ amount put in for bets will be as follows:
-for handicaps below 10 an additional $10
-between 11 and 18 no additional amount
-above 18 you will receive the total amount in the pot and you do not even have to play.
The term “gimme putt” will be changed to “entitlement”
and will be used as follows:
-handicaps below 10, no entitlements
-handicaps above 11 to 17, entitlements for putter length putts
-handicaps above 18, if on green, no need to ever putt, just pick it up
These entitlements are intended to bring about fairness in scoring so that the final scores of all players will be about the same.
In addition, a Player will be limited to a max of one birdie and/or six pars, any excess must be given to those fellow players who have not yet scored a birdie or par. Only after all players have received a birdie or par from the player making the birdie or par, can that Player begin to count his score again.
The current USGA handicap system will be used for the above purposes but the term 'net score' will be available only for scoring those players with handicaps 18 and above.
This is intended to 'redistribute' the success of winning by making sure that in every competition the above 18 handicap players will post only 'net score' against every other player's gross score.
These new Rules are intended to CHANGE the game of golf. Golf must be about Fairness Only, it should have nothing to do with Integrity, Honesty or especially Ability.
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Sooooo, the more successful I am the more I am penalized financially..
Hmmmmmmmm, sounds familiar
Hmmmmmmmm, sounds familiar
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Well its better than I did last year when I broke my leg playing golf...fell off the ball washer, but thats a different story.
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Do we want to heat that story?
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Let's hope alcohol and loosing a bet was involved....Denmark- wrote:Well its better than I did last year when I broke my leg playing golf...fell off the ball washer, but thats a different story.
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Maybe he was just washing his balls.shocka43 wrote:Let's hope alcohol and loosing a bet was involved....Denmark- wrote:Well its better than I did last year when I broke my leg playing golf...fell off the ball washer, but thats a different story.
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....or wiping his putter. Lordy, why do I come into this playground?
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I thought I had seen this before, I posted it in the joke thread on 11/4. Great minds think alike.
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LMAO, the one instance when $pare remember something he had posted before. LMAO
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