Arrives the version of the golf rules applicable to 1is January 2019. This edition proposed the largest and most visible recent overhaul of the rules of the game, offering arrangements that have entered very concretely in the daily life of golfers (right to keep the flag in the hole, drop at the knee, time passage for the search for a ball of five to three minutes, etc.). In the midst of all these changes, she also deleted the separate section devoted to the label, to integrate it directly into golf rules. And to clearly signify its importance, the R & A gave it a place in rule n ° 1. except that in the process, the term ” label “ So has disappeared, in the English version as in the French version.
What should we talk now now? Of “Behavior standards”. It is the title of rule 1.2, which is itself divided in two. In rule 1.2a is specified the expected behavior of all players (patience, we get there). It is once again specified: “There is no penalty according to the rules for a breach of these recommendations”even if the committee keeps the right to disqualify a person for serious breach. The great novelty comes mainly in rule 1.2b, which establishes the code of behavior.
Thus, the committee organizing a competition can enact its own rules as to the behavior which it expects from its participants. These specific rules are then recorded in a “Behavior code”. Important thing: it is given the right to provide penalties in the event of an offense. “For example a penalty at once or the general penalty”in other words two stroke play strokes and loss of the hole in match play, specifies this rule.
Take the example of your favorite federation, which has thus enriched a code of behavior governing all French federal tests. It is specified there, in terms of the Stroke Play, that “The test committee, depending on the gravity of the offense, will have the choice to apply the following penalties: warning, a penalty, general penalty or disqualification”.
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