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Golf Must Overhaul Silly, Antiquated Rules

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The first major multi-tour, umbrella event of the year is set for next month at the Accenture Match Play Championship outside Tucson, Ariz., a site that's crawling with cactus of myriad sorts.

The International Federation of PGA Tours ought to take advantage of the locale, and proximity to one another, to remove an increasingly prickly rules issue from the books.

For the second time in three weeks, a prominent player was disqualified the day after completing his round, and this time, it was three-time major winner Padraig Harrington, who Friday morning was booted from the starry Abu Dhabi event on the European Tour after a TV viewer noticed an unintentional infraction he committed on the seventh hole of the Irishman's opening round.

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