Etiquette section

[Mikhail346]

What a great forum and forward thinking website! I wondered as you were tackling the job of simplifying the rules if you had thought of making a major change to the etiquette clause of the rules; specifically "consideration for others"? As a D 1 college coach, the dilemma of slow play has reached epidemic proportions and I feel that this is the number 1 cause for people leaving the game. Intercollegiate golf is torturous to view and I believe there is a way to curb this interminable slowness. Why don't we strike the phrase "players should not stand in another players line of putt". With the advent of soft spikes the chance of a spike mark causing a putt to miss is preposterous. Also since there was a group on the green approximately 8 minutes earlier that didn't give a hoot where your line might be doesn't it make sense to have continuous putting? Without question most of the slow play is on the green and so I advocate marking your ball once on the green and off you go. If your line on the ball isn't lined up correctly, too bad. A radical idea to be sure but isn't radical what we need? Love the website. Cheers! Mike Hughes Brown University.