Billabong_Bob
Member
I have no wish to be controversial but Golf is a very simple game to which hundreds of years of unusual events that have happened within a round have been catered for by a multitude of people in golfing history. The whole premise has changed and been built around competition. i.e. the handicap system maintained to give everyone a chance of taking the fiver off their playing partners (or the Club Championship, etc)
It's a bit like VAR and the offside rule in football. It used to be simple until scrutinised at 2000 frames per second to see if the defenders toe nail clipping is in front of the forward.
Having recently restarted the whole concept is alien to me. I used to queue for hours to get a tee time in the 80's and only ever counted my score. A gross number was always an achievement. Now I flounder in the multitudes of scoring systems, makes my mind boggle and, quite frankly, puts me off a bit.
I fully appreciate most people adhere to their understanding of the Rules at the time and are honest on the whole. A lot of infractions are borne of ignorance not intent or due to misunderstandings with an extraordinarily complex set of rules. It is my belief this inhibits the uptake and puts people of unnecessarily.
Surely, the very basics could be condensed and made more easy to understand and communicated much more effectively across the masses to enhance the enjoyment of this great game.
Obviously, this will meet with significant resistance but the single biggest fact in everyone's life is that change is inevitable, more so than even death. What is good now is likely to be not so good next month, etc.
Right, I've lit the blue touch paper and have retreated the requisite 20 yards to the bottom of my garden!
It's a bit like VAR and the offside rule in football. It used to be simple until scrutinised at 2000 frames per second to see if the defenders toe nail clipping is in front of the forward.
Having recently restarted the whole concept is alien to me. I used to queue for hours to get a tee time in the 80's and only ever counted my score. A gross number was always an achievement. Now I flounder in the multitudes of scoring systems, makes my mind boggle and, quite frankly, puts me off a bit.
I fully appreciate most people adhere to their understanding of the Rules at the time and are honest on the whole. A lot of infractions are borne of ignorance not intent or due to misunderstandings with an extraordinarily complex set of rules. It is my belief this inhibits the uptake and puts people of unnecessarily.
Surely, the very basics could be condensed and made more easy to understand and communicated much more effectively across the masses to enhance the enjoyment of this great game.
Obviously, this will meet with significant resistance but the single biggest fact in everyone's life is that change is inevitable, more so than even death. What is good now is likely to be not so good next month, etc.
Right, I've lit the blue touch paper and have retreated the requisite 20 yards to the bottom of my garden!