Polara
No one has ever accused golf of being a lawless society. Indeed, one of the tenets of the game is that the players police themselves.
It is up to each golfer to determine when a rule has been broken, and at other times it’s a matter of conscience. If you took two swipes to get the ball out of the woods, the proper thing to do is confess to two strokes, not one — even if no one could see you behind the trees. And throwing the ball out of the woods instead is definitely frowned upon. You can’t throw it that far anyway (I mean, or so I’ve heard).
As people are fond of saying: golf is a game of integrity.
But what if the notion of policing ourselves is itself a transient, unfixed golf principle? Who actually makes up the rules, especially...
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