Chopdoc said:

Have you seen the results of that?

The results I saw posted were literally unplayable. LOL!

AI? Frankly, I wouldn't advise using it for anything except trivial matters. Cues are too important for that toy.

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Bavafongoul said:

The rules also specify if you grounded your club and the ball moves for any reason, it is a penalty even when you did not move or swing your club after grounding the head of the club behind the ball, albeit still motionless and merely touching the turf. The only exemption is on the putting green where this rule does not apply. There is zero flexibility in applying the rule about grounding a club and never even moving it...totally motionless…..and the golf ball moves. Even if a wind gust unexpectedly moved the golf ball, you just got hit with a one stroke penalty if you grounded your club.

Watch Jack Nicklaus films of his golf tournaments. Nicklaus always avoided grounding his irons or woods preparing to swing. Aside from perhaps accidentally letting his golf club make contact with the turf of ground, Jack hovered his golf clubs in the air barely above and behind the golf ball to avoid grounding his club just in case the golf ball inadvertently moved because of wind or any other reason automatically invoking a one stroke penalty.

If my memory is correct, there are only 25 rules in golf but the decisions book is hundreds of pages long covering rules interpretations and decisions. In reality, there is zero, nada, zippo, squat, zilch chances of the rules of golf allowing a player to circumvent any rule. For example, a golf ball falling off a golf tee at the tee box is specifically covered as well as pretty much anything you can pretty much imagine. It’s why the decisions book is so friggin huge because it pretty much covers anything that can occur during a round of golf complying with the established rules. It is a well thought out set of play requirements.

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JAM said:

... The only notification I know about was a BCA press briefing June 4th on their website and a Window's Open Podcast a short time later with Shane Tyree, CEO of BCA. ...

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Bob Jewett said:

I've played in leagues since the 1970s and had some success in tournaments. I think if it's clear to players that certain rules are in effect, most will behave well.

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