Golfers, like Boy Scouts, always need to be prepared. In today’s world, you never know what is going to happen when you leave home, even at the sanctuary of your favorite links.With that in …
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Golfers, like Boy Scouts, always need to be prepared. In today’s world, you never know what is going to happen when you leave home, even at the sanctuary of your favorite links.
With that in mind, listed below are a real set of rules concerning golf play that was posted in 1940 in England during World War II at the Richmond Golf Club. Richmond is a private course located about ten miles from the heart of London. The 2500-acre links, which survived the war and is still in operation, was built in 1891 by Tom Dunn.
Some of you will find these funny, but they were not intended to be. Only the British could show this much concern about proper etiquette while dodging machine pistol fire and bombs raining down on their heads.
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