Sport: 14 Clubs

At its annual meeting last year, the Executive Committee of the U. S. Golf Association viewed with alarm the "growing increase in the number of clubs." Last week, what U. S. golfers have been expecting ever since arrived in the form of an announcement: "The preambles to the Rules of Golf have been amended, to read as follows: 'The game of golf consists in a ball being played from the teeing ground into the hole by successive strokes, with clubs (not exceeding 14 in number). . . .'" The new rule will go...

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