Barry Rhodes on the rules of golf Interview Episode # 8

In Episode 8 of www.HomeofGolf.TV Rhodes Author of 999 questions on the rules of golf Barry tells us how the Royal & Ancient St. Andrews was to manage the rules of golf. He explains how in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many different rules, since each club had developed their own versions. This is obviously caused difficulties and in 1897, by mutual agreement of the existing clubs, most of them in Britain, the Royal & Ancient Golf Club (R & A) wereasked to take control of the rules. The first international guidelines were then published in 1899. The United States Golf Association (USGA) also took the R & A Rules and published for the American golfers in 1900. But the two bodies of golf and then broke away for the next 50 years. As Barry is in the video to highlight ITT important that there arent two sets of rules. In 1952, the R & A and USGA decided to work together to produce only one set for use throughout the world andThis is the situation today. The two bodies meet regularly and on possible rule changes, which occur every four years, and any new decisions or change the rules that are published every two years. There is only one difference between the two and most of us to be minor. There is no limit to the value of the price that an amateur can for a hole-in-one in the U.S. or Mexico, which are governed by the USGA received, but for the rest of the world of R & A limitsthe ...