The message is clear from the powers that be: hold on to your balls.
The message is clear from the powers that be: hold on to your balls.
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Nick Rodger
The Rules of Golf can often make for fairly eye-watering reading.
Yet even those hardened officials at the Royal & Ancient bowed to 'common sense' last year and tweaked some of the game's more harsh commandments. One item in the hefty volume of golfing dos and don'ts won't be changing any time soon, however.
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