Sweeping rules change proposals

[stevek]

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golf...dayNL_20170301

I could see adoption of many/all of these could really speed up the game.

New rule: Committees are given the discretion to mark all penalty areas as red so that lateral relief is always allowed (but they may still mark penalty areas as yellow where they consider it appropriate).
Current rule: All water hazards should be marked yellow, except where their location on the course makes it impossible or unreasonable to drop behind the hazard; only when this is the case may these water hazards be marked red as lateral water hazards.