There are lots of stupid rules out there. Aggressively pointless rules; rules that seem to exist not to solve any problems, but simply to make things more complicated. Golf had the king of those kind of rules, but finally — mercifully — it’ll soon be no more. Starting on January 1st 2018, the USGA will end the practice of allowing viewers at home to call-in penalties on players. It’s part of a two-part solution that golf’s governing bodies announced on Monday: Assign one or more officials to monitor the video broadcast of a competition to help identify and resolve Rules issues as they arise Discontinue any steps to facilitate or consider viewer call-ins as part of the Rules decision process Viewer
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Golf (finally) ditches the stupidest rule in sports
There are lots of stupid rules out there. Aggressively pointless rules; rules that seem to exist not to solve any problems, but simply to make things more complicated. Golf had the king of those kind of rules, but finally — mercifully — it’ll soon be no more. Starting on January 1st 2018, the USGA will…
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