Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-11-24
ST. ANDREWS BODY
APPROVES REVISION
Antiquities Clarified and
Code Is Modernized by
Nearly go Changes.
BY the Associated Press.


~ YEw YORK, November "a
M With the approval OF the
l Y Royal and Ancient Golf
Club of st. Andrews, Scot
land, the Executive Committee
of the United States Golf Asso-
citation today announced adop-
ton of a long series of changes
in the rules, effective January /,
1884.
Generally speaking, the alterations
are aimed at simplifying the language
of the rules clarifying antiquities and
bringing the code up to date and in
conformity with modern conditions and
modern golfing architecture.
The changes, approved by the Royal
and Ancient, ruling body Of the game
in Great Britain, at its Fall meeting
September 26 and by the United States
Golf Associations Executive Committee
at its meeting yesterday represent the
fruit of a years discussions between the
two associations.
All told. some alteration has been
made in close to 90 of the definitions,
general rules and stroke rules of the
game. In vast majority of these, how
ever, the authorities have substituted
simpler language or added or deleted a
phrase to make the sense clearer.
Late Rulings Coded.
FANY of them likewise have be-
;IVI come part and parcel of the
game through interpretations
made from time to time by the U. S.
ND IN, vii r,cy
on antiquities in the code. They have
not previously, however, been written
directly into the code.
Among the changes were:
A change in the definition of a haz-
ard so that path or bush no longer
are considered hazards and scrapes and
casual water and all tracks are excluded
from the definition of hazards.
An amendment to rule II providing
that unless the ball lies in or touches
hazard, the removal of loose impede
ments is not permitted even though
they are more than clubs length from
the ball and even if the loose impede
ment lies in a hazard.
An amendment to rule is, adding q
provision that before striking at ball
in play "a player shall not improve the
position of his BALI by moving, bending
or breaking anything fixed or growing.
An amendment to subdivision !, rule
o. so that now where a ball is played
from the teeing ground into a water
hazard it may be teed. Formerly it had
to be dropped.
A change in subdivision 2, rule 20,
now omitS the right given to either side
to refuse to allow a person not en-
gagged in the match to stand at the hole.
CtroEa RuIaS Cbappac
TN THE stroke rules some of the
changes made were:
Subdivision 2, rule 8, has been
altered to make the penalty two strokes
instead of disqualification for playing
one or more strokes with wrong ball.
Rule has been altered to make the
penalty two strokes instead of one where
a competitors ball strikes himself, his
caddie or his clubs.
Rule 10, subdivision 2, changed to in
crease the penalty from one stroke to
two where a competitor on the putting
greer strikes the ball of his fellow COM
petitor. The same change is made in
subdivision 5, where a competitor lifts
his ball while his fellow competitors
ball is in motion, both being on the
green.
A number of alterations are made in
the etiquette of the game, the most i'm
portant of which requires player to
Immediately leave the green when the
result of hole has been determined.
Formerly this provision simply provided
against practice butts being taken when
SO doing would delay following players.