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Golfreiser
25.10 Golfreglene:
Fornuftige endringer
Det blir noen endringer i reglene fra 1. januar
2012. Noen episoder har ført til at de høye herrer på St. Andrews har grepet
fatt i pennen og gjort en del regelendringer av den humane og fornuftige sorten.
Regelboken skal se lik ut i alle land. Dermed vil det samme stå på de samme
sidene i alle lands regelbøker etter at de er oversatt. Bare språket blir
forskjellig.
Endringene er å lese på mange ulike nettsteder. Golfsiden har valgt å gjengi det
som står på PGA Tour'ens hjemmeside:
(Dette skriver Golfweek om saken:
Klikk her - merk her spesielt endringene m.h.t. adressering av ball, lete
etter ball, komme for sent til start, hole-in-one-premiestørrelser for amatører,
amatrøregel)
-- Golfers will no longer be penalized if their ball moves after it has
been addressed in one of a number of rule changes announced Monday by the
sport's governing body.
Rory McIlroy and Webb Simpson were among those to have been hit with one-shot
penalties this year for what is widely regarded as one of the harshest rules in
golf.
The revision was made by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, which issues the
sport's rules in conjunction with the USGA, the governing golf organization in
the United States and Mexico.
Beginning Jan. 1 and until 2015, players will not be punished if the ball moves
after the address "when it is known or virtually certain that he did not cause
the ball to move."
"Every time the wind blows, I am worried that my ball is going to move and I am
worried about grounding my putter, distracting me from trying to hole my putt,"
said Padraig Harrington, three-time major winner who is an R&A ambassador.
McIlroy, the U.S. Open champion, was penalized in his final round at the British
Open at Royal St. George's. The consequences weren't dire for McIlroy -- he had
little chance of winning and finished 25th -- but the same cannot be said of
Simpson during the final round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in May.
The American was leading by a shot and closing in on what would have been his
first title when his ball moved on the 15th green. After receiving a one-stroke
penalty, he eventually lost in a playoff to compatriot Bubba Watson.
Simpson lost the PGA TOUR money title to Luke Donald on Sunday by a margin of
$335,861 -- the difference between first and second place at the Zurich Classic
was $460,800.
Simpson at the time labeled the sanction "such a bad rule."
Other changes announced by the R&A include allowing players to smooth sand or
soil before playing from a hazard "provided it is for the sole purpose of caring
for the course and Rule 13-2 (improving lie, area of intended stance or swing or
line of play) is not breached."
Golfers will also no longer be automatically disqualified from a tournament if
they start late, but within five minutes of their assigned tee time. Instead,
they will lose the first hole in match play or two shots at the first hole in
stroke play.
"I am delighted with the changes, in particular the ball moving after address,"
Harrington said. "It is definitely giving us players a little bit of a break."
In addition, the R&A has amended the definition of addressing the ball to mean "simply
... grounding his club immediately in front of or behind the ball, regardless of
whether or not he has taken his stance."
Before, the address position required a player to be stood over the ball with
the club grounded.
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