The Rules of Golf in Plain English, Fourth Edition

by Bryan A. Garner and Jeffrey S Kuhn

Book Overview

The earliest standards for the game of golf included just 338 words and thirteen rules, which included what to do if your ball had the misfortune of falling into "watery filth" and how to proceed if your ball was stopped by a horse. The official Rules of Golf have since grown to more than 40,000 words and cover everything from marking a scorecard to determining whether a club has the appropriate roughness.

Two hundred years of revisions have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022637145X
• ISBN13: 9780226371450
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.0" x 6.9"