Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-02 | Page 30 | Non-Floating Golf's may be Prohibited

NON-FLOATING GOLFS MAY BE PROHIBITED Rules Committee In Favor of Standardizing Standard-izing Floaters; Task a Risky One. The magazine, Golfing, London, England, En-gland, made announcement In its last issue: "We learn on the best authority that It is the intention of the rules of golf committee to introduce a rule standardizing standard-izing the floater ball. All balls which will not float in water will be prohibited, but it is intended, in order to enable the golf trade to unload the heavier balls, that six months' notice of the change will be given, dating from September, before it is actually enforced." Commenting on this, the Canadian Golfer says: "It is sincerely hoped that the rules of golf committee will not be so ill-ad- vised as to adopt such a radical measure mea-sure without first consulting the powers that bo in this and other golfing countries. coun-tries. In Canada the rules and regulations regula-tions of tho game as laid down by St. Andrews are faithfully followed, but It Is a very grave question whether any such change as that mooted In connection with this standardizing of the ball would be acceptable hero. The rules of golf committee com-mittee wants to 'hasten slowly,' Very slowly, before making any such rash decision. de-cision. It would certainly be retrograde legislation. "As pointed out by Golfing, three of the chief objections to the rubber-cored bad are that It gives such a good response to 'even a half-hit shot and so tends to even up tho poor players with the good ones-that ones-that It makes recovery from hazards too ensv, so that the had shot no looser receives re-ceives the punishment It deserves, and that IJs resiliency makes It more dlffleu't to control on a hard green and so introduces in-troduces a considerable element of luck in npproacl.lng and putting. "All these objections apply most Btrohtf-ly Btrohtf-ly lo the floater ball, and much less strongly lo the small, heavy ball which it Is proposed to abandon, 9ne thin" Is jure If the rules of golf committee of fi' A,n;lrp"'.dpe3 ttempt to standardize tne rioater.' Its ruling will not be observed ob-served In Canada of the stntes. It will commit 'golfing suicide.' as far lls its i. fluence here Is concerned."