The 2023 version, which comes into impact on January 1, continues the modernisation course of, with an emphasis on each inclusion and sustainability. For the primary time, the modified guidelines for gamers with disabilities have been absolutely included into the principles with out the necessity to undertake an area rule.
• Modifications for Gamers with Disabilities: The modifications to the Guidelines for gamers with disabilities have been made a part of the Guidelines and are in impact for all gamers who’re categorized within the classes lined in Rule 25.
• Handicap Utilization in Stroke Play: With the continued development of score-posting expertise following the adoption of the World Handicap System™, gamers are now not penalised for failing to place their handicap on their scorecard in stroke play. The committee will probably be answerable for guaranteeing the accuracy of every participant’s handicap.
• Membership Broken Throughout Spherical: The rule has been amended to permit a participant to switch a membership that’s broken throughout a spherical, supplied the participant didn’t harm it by abuse.
• Ball Moved by Pure Forces: A brand new exception gives {that a} ball at relaxation should be changed if it strikes to a different space of the course or involves relaxation out of bounds after being dropped, positioned or changed.
• Again-on-the-Line Reduction Process: The back-on-the-line reduction process, typically used for penalty space and unplayable ball reduction, has been simplified in order that the participant now drops their ball on the road, and the ball should come to relaxation inside one club-length of the place it’s dropped.
Grant Moir, Director of Guidelines at The R&A, mentioned: “We’re persevering with to enhance and adapt the Guidelines of Golf to make sure they’re in keeping with the best way the fashionable recreation is performed. Which means making the Guidelines simpler to grasp and entry for all golfers and making the game extra inclusive and welcoming for golfers with disabilities. We’re additionally working to make sure golf has a sustainable long-term future and making extra sources out there digitally is vital to attaining that objective.”
The present version of the Guidelines of Golf (2019) nonetheless applies when enjoying or posting scores for the rest of 2022. Golfers can discover out extra in regards to the main adjustments and overview the official 2023 Guidelines of Golf by visiting randa.org.
