Fw: New Golf Rules for 2019 - That Seniors may have missed

Happy New Year

I think that we have been over protective to our golf course. If you let carts out today would the course be damaged? We are closed for a month plus February. Don't claim we need revenue and then close the place. You can't damage what mother nature has already wrecked. 

I just can't walk the course so I was double punished. We lose site of the fact that members are an asset that should be protected. Members are an asset that can and have left. 

Mother Nature has been a bitch all of 2018, hopefully she will return to being the loving mother we need and never seem to appreciate. 

I think I will stop here before I really get in trouble. The year is done. Revenue lost can never be retrieved so lets hope that 2019 is a better years for all. 

Again - Happy and Healthy New Years to you and your family! 

Members are our life blood so if you have anyone thinking about joining be proactive contact membership ASAP 

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under consideration for seniors 

Rule 1.a.5 

 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 player should not be penalized for tall grass which ground keepers failed to mow. 

  

Rule 2.d.6 (B) 

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.B.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, 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. This SHALL NOT apply to balls more than twelve 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 penny-pinching golf course owners bought sufficient land, this would not occur. The senior player deserves an apology, 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 penalized for any shortcomings 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 impractical for many senior players, one-half stroke per hole may be subtracted for using old equipment. 




No, the MGA Board was not completely intoxicated when these new rules were reviewed.