New decisions on rules of golf announced by USGA and R&A this morning. Effective January 1, 2014. • New Decision 14-3/18: Beginning Jan. 1, players will be allowed to access weather reports on their cellphones during a round. The USGA and R&A cited a need for players to protect their own safety. • New Decision 18/4 provides that, where enhanced technological evidence (e.g. HDTV, digital recording or online visual media, etc.) shows that a ball has left its position and come to rest in another location, the ball will not be deemed to have moved if that movement was not reasonably discernible to the naked eye at the time. • Revised Decision 27-2a/1.5: Players will be allowed to walk forward approximately 50 yards to determine the balls location without forfeiting their right to play a provisional. • Revised Decision 25-2/0.5: Illustrations were added to help clarify the circumstances in which the ball is (and is not) considered to be embedded in the ground.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:49:27 +0000
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