Sport: The Plight of the Bumblebee

The shalls and shall nots of golf are pretty explicit. In the United States Golfers Association rule book there are 34 definitions, 41 rules with 120 sections and 156 subsections; for professional tournament play the P.G.A. makes six exceptions of its own. These cover everything that can happen to a golfer from clobbering a spectator with a ball (no penalty) to brushing away worm droppings while in a hazard (two strokes). But nowhere, as Arnold Palmer discovered in last week's $35,000 Phoenix Open, do the rules say anything about bumblebees.

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