AARP meets with USGA on new rules for senior golfers.
 

The AARP has negotiated with the USGA to modify the Rules of Golf for seniors.



Rule 2.c.4

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



Rule 2.d.6
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(g)
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, making it a stolen ball. The player is not to compound the crime 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 does not apply to balls more than three inches from the hole. No one wants to make a travesty 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 golfer 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 golfers should not be penalized for manufacturers’ shortcomings.



Rule 8.k.9(s)
Advertisements claim that golf scores can be improved by purchasing new golf equipment. Since this is financially difficult for many senior golfers, one-half stroke per hole may be subtracted for using old equipment.

I can't take credit it was e-mailed to me.

Lol!

OH this is too funny, thanks.

This is really going to lower my score!!!

All golf holes the size of Sarasota second pins

Great but probably still wouldn't lower my score.

Our group has played under these rules for years. We felt a necessary obligation as good citizens of TV to achieve the pace of play policy. Now if only the rules of edicate would allow for us to not fill in our divots and repair ball marks we could within reasonable probability achieve the recommended pace of play.

What happens if a dog picks up a golf ball and walks off with it?

You have to wait until he poops it out and then complain about the poop...

Too funny!!!

I walked on a while back and played with a couple of guys who were friends and listened to them whine about slow play/course conditions, the entire round. You could look ahead and see that the whole course was full and the complaining even occurred, while the passenger waited for the driver to hit his ball, so he could be driven 20 yards over to his own ball. Then he would begin his range-finding and three practice swings. Even though I quietly raked their bunkers and sanded their divots (they never hit it well enough to leave a pitch mark...LOL), but they seemed not to even notice/care - about their own flaming hypocrisy.

Haven’t some players here been playing by these new rules for years?

It's about time senior golfers get a break.
 

I laughed so hard, I almost hurt myself. Thanks for posting JGibson.

Hysterical

Believe it or not, I have seen this take place !

A player in our foursome hits a great drive that landed in the center of the fairway. A dog from the neighborhood lining the hole came running out at a full gallop, picks up the ball and runs back home !

Moments later , a very apologetic dog owner comes walking out to us to return the ball !

No joke , this really happened !