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I was not sure how to broach this subject, i'm still not certain if i am doing the correct thing, forgive me if i'm mistaken about all this but....This is not about golf.

It all began after an incident that occured to me during a match.

I played golf in the 70's for a few years, i stopped playing and took the game back up 2 years ago. In the time i stopped playing a Rule which had been in the game for over 250 years had changed, the odd thing is no Rule had changed at all.

I won't bore you with the indepth details but what has happened is this. Prior to 1952, America and Scotland had their own sets of rules.
In scotland if your ball was in an area of ground that had been marked as "ground under repair" you must lift your ball and drop it on a part of the course that the rules allowed.
In AMerica for the same piece of ground you had the choice to play it or pick it up and drop it elsewhere.
When in 1952 America(USGA) and Scotland(R&A) combined their rules to one set of rules somebody had to give way, THe USGA lost and the rule stayed the same as THe Scotts had played for the previous 200 years. http://www.ruleshistory.com/rules1952.html THere has been no published rule change regarding this rule to the present date.

So how did the rule come to change, well around 1982 the code came with some amended rules, there also was contained some notes (not rules) and some examples of specimen local rules. The rule that concerns me had not been changed at all, yet during a match my opponent thought otherwise. Much debate ensued after the match, eventually i ended up at the tip of all golfing rule knowledge, frequented by all the top judges, i mean referees http://www.leithsociety.com/
I asked some questions and was blocked from posting again. I had not been abusive to anybody and i respected others views.

I must add at this point that it was perhaps six months since i visited http://www.ruleshistory.com and i can see now he has removed all the old rules from the USA, also the rules around the 80's have been edited to suit their needs.

Now lets get started.

http://www.leithsociety.com/

If you do a whois and check the email address supplied.

*****@oilcontrol.it




"The Code"


Here is the opening page of The Code, http://turf.lib.msu.edu/1920s/1921/2102TC.pdf is that rockerfeller and van?

I have enough saved, so if they shut that site it won't do them much good.

The month after 9/11 the Code has a title within..... "The perfect Lie"
 
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. What is so special about the oilcontrol.it site?
 
I just found this article in the journal.

How it is related to Turf or golf is beyond me.

Strange Archaeological Discovery
(From The Scientific World, January, 9316.)
In an excavation being made for the new sunken garden at Frogaria,
not far from Niock, which the ancients, at the time this rock was formed,
called New Pork, a layer of shale-like rock of recent geological formation
. was encountered, evidently an old lake bottom. This layer of rock contained
a stratum of globose objects about as large as a hen's egg, but
perfectly spherical. These objects were stratified, as many as twenty
layers in some places, elsewhere fewer. The surface markings show a
curious series of symmetrical designs, some of them tessellated, others
dimpled, some muricate with little excrescences. Over one hundred different
designs have already been found, and but a small portion of the
rock has been broken so that the objects can be released.
At the meeting of the National Academy of Science last evening there
was tremendous interest shown. The more conservative members refrained
from making comments, but among the younger men were enthusiastic
advocates of at least four different theories. Dr. Bougee argues
that the objects were seeds of some unknown group of plants. Prof. 0. P.
Dumbkopf ridiculed Bougee's idea and insisted that the peculiar fossils
were the eggs of some large lizard. Other guesses were by Dr. Razz, who
thought they must be puff-balls, and by Dr. Koth, who opined they were
coprolities.
C,ross sections of the objects have not as yet been accomplished, but
Director Glum, of the Biological Laboratory, called attention to the fact
that many of the objects were scarred, some indeed with deep gashes, which
disclosed that the outer layer is different from the interior. He estimates
that the area of rock containing the objects is about 100 yards long and
200 feet wide. In this rock are embedded at least 13,650,OOO of the curious
spheres.
The meeting adjourned without shedding much light on the mysterious
things, but interest among the savants is intense. It is hoped that with
very hard steel saws it will be possible to section the objects, whatever they
may be, and thus perhaps solve the mystery. A very mystifying feature
of these strange objects, utterly new to science, is that they should occur
in such immense numbers in the spot where found.
http://turf.lib.msu.edu/1920s/1925/2505114.pdf

Do the Americans have May fools day instead of April?
 
Well, the date for the article is 9316, so it is a spoof, written in the 1920s about archaeologists thousands of years in the future finding golf balls in the fossilized bottom of a golf water hazard.

Happy to help.

Linkes said:
I just found this article in the journal.

How it is related to Turf or golf is beyond me.

Strange Archaeological Discovery
(From The Scientific World, January, 9316.)
In an excavation being made for the new sunken garden at Frogaria,
not far from Niock, which the ancients, at the time this rock was formed,
called New Pork, a layer of shale-like rock of recent geological formation
. was encountered, evidently an old lake bottom. This layer of rock contained
a stratum of globose objects about as large as a hen's egg, but
perfectly spherical. These objects were stratified, as many as twenty
layers in some places, elsewhere fewer. The surface markings show a
curious series of symmetrical designs, some of them tessellated, others
dimpled, some muricate with little excrescences.
 
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