One year on: Golf’s new Rules
After a lengthy build-up and major re-education programme via a variety of resources, golfers finally got to tee it up under the highly publicised new Rules of Golf on January 1, 2019. The sum of all the changes to the Rules by which we must abide out on the course added up to the most comprehensive modifications for over a generation.
The goals of this Rules modernisation initiative were many and varied, among them: a drive to make the Rules easier to both understand and apply; a desire to dispense with what were perhaps unnecessarily harsh penalties; and a commitment to doing whatever might be possible from a Rules perspective to address growing concerns over pace of play and the impact that is perceived to be having on participation.
No doubt we all have our own thoughts about the various changes introduced, but over the past year we’ve all had to adapt to penalty
