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Title: Decisions on the Rules of Golf, 2004-2005 by United States Golf Association ISBN: 0-9714881-6-9 Publisher: Printing Consultants, Inc Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Definitive -- and entertaining, at least for a rule book!
Comment: An extraordinarily informative and detailed book. The Book answers almost all the questions you might have about the application of the Rules. The Rules of golf often seem simple, but their application can be difficult. Additionally, some of the rules are quite arcane, verbose, and difficult to understand. Yet, Decisions on the Rules of Golf contains actual questions from actual players, and actual answers from the USGA -- over 600 pages of questions and answers! All of which are divided according to various rules and their subparts. A very helpful index makes it easy to find quickly any answer to any question you might have. Additionally, the book sets out each pertinent rule verbatim at the beginning of each chapter. All of the definitions needed to understand the Rules are set forth and all Rulings on what each definition means are included as well. The strangest thing about this book is not only that it is informative and detailed, but that it can also make quite entertaining reading. It doesn't take too long before you realize that the almost all of the questions concern actual events that actually happened to some unfortunate soul, along with the USGA rulings about what the correct application of the rule should have been in those circumstances. For example, Greg Norman was recently disqualified for hitting a provisional ball after he hit his drive into a water hazard, found his first ball playable when he got to the hazard, and then played his first ball -- all perfectly acceptable if a provisional ball were allowed to be played after hitting your ball into a water hazard. Reading the rule on hitting into a water hazards and the rule on playing a provisional ball (I don't have my Decisions on the Rules of Golf by my side when I'm writing this review, they are in my golf bag where they should be, so I can't tell you what the specific Rule numbers are), a normal person could eventually discern the fact that provisional balls can be played only in certain circumstances, and that those circumstances do not include water hazards. But rather than having to page back and forth between two or three different rules, you could simply have looked up this question in the index to the Decisions on the Rules of Golf, and found that it forms the basis for several questions and answers in the book. Let me give you another example. Let's say you're playing to an elevated green where you cannot see the green's surface, but you can see the flagstick. You hit to the flagstick only to discover when you climb to the green that some joker has taken the flagstick out of the hole and jammed it into the other side of the green 50 feet from the hole. Do you get relief? Read the book and find out. Many even stranger events form the basis of the questions and answers, along with the questions and answers to more common questions. I highly recommend this book, and although it is approximately an inch and a half thick, it fits easily into most golf bags. It ought to be a required possession of every clubhouse.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brand New Edition for 2004-2005
Comment: A nice new size for this edition. Any older editions are obsolete. Many changes in the Rules of Golf for the Golfer to study. Don't buy any of the older editions listed as they are out of date and inaccurate.
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Title: Golf Rules Illustrated : 2004 Edition by Hamlyn ISBN: 0600608905 Publisher: Hamlyn Pub. Date: 28 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Golf Rules Plain & Simple by Mark Russell, John Andrisani ISBN: 006273668X Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Rules of Golf in Plain English by Bryan A. Garner, Jeffrey S. Kuhn ISBN: 0226458156 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: May, 2004 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Complete Book of Golf Games by Scott Johnston ISBN: 0914457551 Publisher: Mustang Pubn Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game by Joseph Parent ISBN: 0385504462 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 14 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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