#01 THE NEW RULES OF GOLF

Some of you implemented these rules in 2003. however they were not supposed to be in effect until 2004.

Rule #1:	A ball sliced or hooked into the rough shall be lifted and placed on the fairway at a point equal to the distance it carried or rolled into the rough with no penalty. Players should not be penalized for uncontrollable mechanical phenomena.
Rule #2:	A ball hitting a tree shall be deemed not to have hit the tree. This is simply bad luck and luck has no place in a scientific game. The player must estimate the distance the ball would have traveled had it not hit the tree and can play the ball from there.
Rule #3:	There shall be no such thing as a lost ball. The missing ball is on or near the course and will eventually be found and pocketed by someone else, making it a stolen ball. The player is not to compound the felony by charging him or herself with a penalty stroke.
Rule #4:	If a putt passes over a hole without dropping in it is "deemed to have dropped." The law of gravity supersedes the law of golf.
Rule #5:	Putts that stop close enough to the cup that they can be blown in, may be blown in. This does not apply to balls more than three inches from the hole. After all, no one wants to make a travesty of the game.
Rule #6:	There is no penalty for so called "out of bounds." If penny-pinching golf club owners bought sufficient land, this would not occur. The golfer deserves an apology, not a penalty.
Rule #7:	Advertisements proclaim that golf scores can be improved by purchasing new clubs, balls, shoes, etc. Since this is financially impossible for the average golfer, a stroke per hole may be subtracted for using old equipment.