Interesting article on pros considering writing their own rules - from 50 years ago

[Swisstrader98]

Whether or not you love the USGA or not so much, the following article speaks to some of the more recent thoughts out there around whether or not the PGA Tour should break away from the USGA and come up with their own set of rules...the cool thing about the article is that this all happened many years ago.

 

So bascially, some 50 years ago, the entity now known as the PGA Tour was formed, breaking away from the PGA of America. Some of the biggest names in the game, Nicklaus and Palmer supported the idea of splitting off and coming up with their own rules. Also had no idea who Gardner Dickinson was until now.

 

Didn’t happen but I still enjoyed the history lesson:

 

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/pga-tour-pros-contemplating-their-own-set-of-rules-of-golf-isnt-a-new-idea-it-happened-50-years-ago

[KevCarter]

Whether or not you love the USGA or not so much, the following article speaks to some of the more recent thoughts out there around whether or not the PGA Tour should break away from the USGA and come up with their own set of rules...the cool thing about the article is that this all happened many years ago.

 

So bascially, some 50 years ago, the entity now known as the PGA Tour was formed, breaking away from the PGA of America. Some of the biggest names in the game, Nicklaus and Palmer supported the idea of splitting off and coming up with their own rules. Also had no idea who Gardner Dickinson was until now.

 

Didn't happen but I still enjoyed the history lesson:

 

https://www.golfdige...ed-50-years-ago

 

I do sympathize because I was part of that myself, thinking that way,” Nicklaus said last week at the Honda Classic, at which his and wife Barbara’s charitable organization, the Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation, is the primary beneficiary. “But we all took the position that we are not bigger than the game of golf and the game of golf is the USGA and the R&A. We felt like if we did that, then we’re making ourselves more important than the ruling bodies of the game of golf, and we didn’t think it was the right thing to do. Now did we have hiccups? Yeah, we have had hiccups. But that’s OK.

[Hawkeye77]

Whether or not you love the USGA or not so much, the following article speaks to some of the more recent thoughts out there around whether or not the PGA Tour should break away from the USGA and come up with their own set of rules...the cool thing about the article is that this all happened many years ago.

 

So bascially, some 50 years ago, the entity now known as the PGA Tour was formed, breaking away from the PGA of America. Some of the biggest names in the game, Nicklaus and Palmer supported the idea of splitting off and coming up with their own rules. Also had no idea who Gardner Dickinson was until now.

 

Didn’t happen but I still enjoyed the history lesson:

 

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/pga-tour-pros-contemplating-their-own-set-of-rules-of-golf-isnt-a-new-idea-it-happened-50-years-ago

 

And it says it really wasn’t a serious effort at all.