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What Is The Most Significant Advancement In Golf History

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what was the most significant advancement in golfing history

There has been quite a lot of significant advancement in golfing history (golf ball, golf clubs) but the biggest and most significant advancement is the rules. The rules of golf has always been the same over the years with the rules being based around regulation, procedures and penalties. Before the rules of golf were made into a book for everyone that plays, golf clubs commonly had their own set of rules. Most of the rules made by other clubs were mostly the same but had some differences by removal of loose impediments (leaves and small stones).

The earliest surviving written rules book was made by the gentlemen Golfers of Leith on March 7, 1744 for a tournament played on April 2 and only had 13 rules.
1.You must Tee your Ball, within a Club's length of the Hole. This rule has changed quite a lot because in the game of golf now you don’t tee your ball up a club length from the hole you start on a whole new tee box and …show more content…

This has led to the publishing of lists of conforming and non-conforming drivers. In 2010 a new rule about grooves came into force for professional and high-level amateur competition. The change was made in order to decrease the amount of back spin that players were able to produce, particularly from the rough. The 2012–2015 edition was published October 24, 2011. Nine rules were changed, the most significant being Ball Moving After Address (Rule 18-2b). Rory Mcllroy was penalized by this Rule in the final round of the 2011 Open Championship. The 2016 edition added Rule 14-1b, which forbids players from anchoring a club against their body in any way shape or form (such as directly against the body or by using their forearm). While the rule change is expected to prominently affect the users of long putters or sometimes know as “Belly

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