20 Rules for ’19: #16 – Ball Moved During Search
Go ahead and search for your lost golf ball with full gusto: it’s OK if you accidentally move it in the process.
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20 Rules for ’19: #17 – 3 Minute Ball Search
Two minutes less time to walk around in a circle: another of the sensible 2019 Rules of Golf updates…
20 Rules for ’19: #18 – Embedded Ball Relief
Another easy-to-understand and sensible rules change for 2019 involves the embedded ball.
20 Rules for ’19: #19 – Drop Ball from Knee Height
The 2019 Rules of Golf brings a new ball drop procedure. In the past, to take a drop a player held the ball in the fingers at shoulder height with arm fully-extended and let it go. For 2019, a ball MUST be dropped from knee height and fall to the ground without touching any part … READ MORE >
20 Rules for ’19: #20 – Putting and the Flagstick
Northeast Ohio Golf will cover the 20 big rules changes for 2019 one-at-a-time in January. We begin with an easy one easy one: putting and the flagstick.
Courses: Make 2019 Rules Changes Even Better
The USGA made fantastic Rules changes for 2019. But they got one wrong. Golf course owners, superintendents and GMs can fix that error.
