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Show OLDEST SET OF GOLF RULES MADE IN 1754 Drafted for Guidance of Players of St. Andrews. Just the other day they discovered the oldest set of golf rules known to the game. They are thirteen In number num-ber and were drafted on May 14, 1754, for guidance of the linklsts of St. Andrews (Scotland). Among the game's regulations of that era were the following : Your tee must be on the ground. You must tee the ball within a club length of the hole. You are not to remove stones, bones or any broken clubs for the sake of playing your ball, except upon the fair green and that only within a club's length of the ball. II balls of opponents be found anywhere touching each other, you are to lift the first ball until yau play the last. If you should lose your ball by Its being taken up, or in any other way, you are to go back to the spot where you struck last, and drop another ball, and allow your adversary a stroke for the misfortune. If you draw your club in order to strike and proceed so far in the stroke as to be bringing down your club ir then your club shall break in any way, It Is to be accounted a stroke. He whose ball lies farthest from the hole is obliged to play first. |