New Rules of Golf For Seniors

[Golfbum]

New Golf Rules for seniors


I thought you would want to know.

The CARP Organization (Canadian Association of Retired People) has
negotiated with the USGA & the Canadian Golf Association to modify the Rules
of Golf for seniors, effective January 1, 2008.

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 should not be penalized for tall grass which
groundskeepers 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 placed 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) (now renamed the Moffat rule)

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 felony by charging
himself or herself with a penalty.

Rule 4.c.7 (h)

If a putt passes ove r 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 six 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 impracticable for many senior golfers,
one-half stroke per hole may be subtracted for using old equipment.

Please advise all your senior friends of these important rule changes,
especially those Snowbirds who spend the winter in warmer climates.

[Bouche]

ROFL!!!! Too funny....thanks I needed that laugh right before the end of my shift! I gotta forward this to the gramps. He will love this!

[big mac]

I have already tried most of them Rick---they work extremely well with the over 55 group; but when I use it on the under 55----well!---I've never heard so much profanity in my life. Yo would think I was playing with the "young guns" on tour

[Old Man]

Thanks..... I am using these rules when I play against my two sons.They are DOOMED! Dad is not buying the beer that round!!!!

[tdwilson]

I know a lot of non-seniors that basically play like this.

[Ada]

The club adheres strictly to the USGA rules of golf. If while playing in a stroke-play tournament, you encounter a situation that your are in doubt as to the proper procedure to take, you may take advantage of Rule 3-3 that allows you to play a second ball to complete the hole and the rules committee will decide the ruling prior to you turning in your scorecard. Please look-up this rule and be thoroughly familiar with it prior to proceeding under that rule. This rule does not apply in match-play.This is one of the new rule of golf for seniors.

[Golfbum]

The club adheres strictly to the USGA rules of golf. If while playing in a stroke-play tournament, you encounter a situation that your are in doubt as to the proper procedure to take, you may take advantage of Rule 3-3 that allows you to play a second ball to complete the hole and the rules committee will decide the ruling prior to you turning in your scorecard. Please look-up this rule and be thoroughly familiar with it prior to proceeding under that rule. This rule does not apply in match-play.This is one of the new rule of golf for seniors.

THE NEW RULES FOR SENIORS is actually a joke. Not to be taken seriously