Golf is a game where you yell 'fore', shoot six, and write down five. - Paul Harvey The great radio commentator Paul Harvey had a dry sense of humor. However, this pearl only applies to hackers like me who really don't even know all the rules and slights the genuine golfer who respects the game. Golf etiquette demands that golfers self-report violations of the rules, even  if a certain rules violation carries an automatic penalty. Golf is a game meant to be played by the rules, with honor and integrity. The great Bobby Jones famously set the ultimate example of this when he called a one-stroke penalty on himself that eventually cost him the 1925 U. S. Open. When sportswriter O. B. Keeler suggested afterward that Jones deserved universal admiration and respect for this incredible example of good sportsmanship the golfer scoffed as he famously replied, "You might as well praise me for not robbing banks." But Keeler was absolutely right. The native Georgian deserves universal recognition and our respect for setting the quintessential example for how to play the game that continues to this very day. … [Read more...]