Wattery Filth, Animal Scrapes and Loose Impediments

摘要

Every four years, two important things happen. The national media decide which candidates are deserving enough for the electorate to elevate to the position of president of the United States. And the Rules of Golf change. One might be forgiven for thinking that issues like saving Social Security or what to do with the surplus are more important in the overall scheme of things. But I wonder if there isn't a greater impact on the body politic when golfers can no longer have a caddy stand behind them to help aim a shot in the right direction, define exactly what the nearest "point of relief " is, or know that a ball which comes to rest in a bush or tree that's growing in an area marked as "ground under repair" is deemed to be in ground under repair, even though the ball is not actually on the ground. Or something like that.