{"id":680,"date":"2005-05-04T11:20:54","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T16:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/rule_14-3b_the_range_finder_rule\/"},"modified":"2005-05-04T11:20:54","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T16:20:54","slug":"rule_14-3b_the_range_finder_rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/swing_thoughts\/rule_14-3b_the_range_finder_rule","title":{"rendered":"Rule 14-3b: The &#8220;Range Finder&#8221; Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/accessories\/yardage_wheel.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"154\" alt=\"Yardage Wheel\" \/>Golf used to be a game of feel, and not just around the green. &#8220;This looks like a strong 6-iron,&#8221; the pro would say to his caddie (or vice versa). Elevation, wind, temperature, green contours, and even mood could change a club selection.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, caddies and pros got wise and began measuring yardages (often with yardage wheels like the one shown at right). Caddies would show up on Monday and Tuesday to walk the course, measuring every conceivable yardage and writing them all down in a little booklet. They&#8217;d include numbers that indicated the carry distance of a water hazard, draw arrows indicating severe slopes and funnels on the greens, predominant wind conditions, and notes about areas in which you did not want to miss.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s, this too faded away as caddies with yardage wheels were replaced by ultra-accurate, GPS- and laser-measured yardage guides. Every pro has the same yardage book these days, tailored slightly to suit a particular pro&#8217;s playing habits, and caddies spend their Mondays and Tuesdays without a yardage wheel in their hands.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nUnfortunately, the opportunity to accurately measure yardages is not available to the average weekend player, and there exists an insidious rule that makes it illegal to measure the yardage with GPS or laser during a round of golf. Rule 14-3b says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Except as provided in the Rules, during a stipulated round the player must not use any artificial device or unusual equipment&hellip; for the purpose of gauging or measuring distance or conditions that might affect his play&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, you&#8217;re welcome to use a range finder all you want&hellip; if you don&#8217;t mind breaking the rules. Range finders are, per the letter of the law, illegal for use in tournament play (their use in handicap rounds is considered allowable). If you&#8217;re using a range finder or a GPS unit to measure distances, by the rules, the game you&#8217;re playing isn&#8217;t golf. The penalty for breach of rule 14-3? <strong>Disqualification<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule 14-3b is stupid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;opportunity bifurcation&#8221; upsets many. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franklygolf.com\/Speak\/Article5_18.asp\" title=\"FranklyGolf.com\" class=\"external external_icon\">Kevin W. Martin wrote Frank Thomas<\/a> to voice his concerns:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The answer is clearly for the USGA to drop their hypocritical and elitist stance and abolish rule 14-3b and allow any distance measuring devices players wish to use. Their stance is hypocritical because the best players in the game never hit a shot without knowing exact yardages. Their stance is elitist because it denies the average golfer the same information the elite tournament players have. Tournament players are thus playing a different game than the rest of us, and range finders only partly level the field (it is difficult to get exact front-of-the-green and back-of-the-green distances with a range finder). [This is] the silliest rule of all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thomas, former Technical Director for the USGA, agrees:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are so many golfers who agree with your position that they choose to ignore the rule. This is not good for the game and in itself is a good sign that something must be done.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In answering a reader who supports the rule, Frank provides more detail on his thoughts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately yardage books, hole location sheets and well-informed caddies are permitted by the governing bodies of every major event. I too wish we didn&#8217;t have any of this stuff, but we can&#8217;t turn back the clock. And the way the rule is now, the USGA is turning otherwise law-abiding golfers into rules breakers, which in itself is bad for the game. Of course, if the fundamental challenge of the game is as pure to you as it is to me, don&#8217;t use any distance-measuring devices &#8211; you are free to ignore caddies, yardages on sprinkler heads and 150-yard markers and simply &#8220;eyeball&#8221; each and every shot. There&#8217;s no law that says you have to use all the information that&#8217;s available to you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Frank writes more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/courses\/critic\/index.ssf?\/equipment\/extra\/equipmen_7gjp0mmc.html\" title=\"Frank Thomas @ Golf Digest .com\" class=\"external external_icon\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/courses\/critic\/index.ssf?\/equipment\/extra\/equipmen_dghh1wmc.html\" title=\"Frank Thomas @ Golf Digest .com\" class=\"external external_icon\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/courses\/emerald_dunes_yardage.jpg\" alt=\"Emerald Dunes Yardage\" height=\"347\" width=\"200\" class=\"bordered\" \/>This &#8220;distance&#8221; &#8211; or the measuring of it &#8211; debate is in more than one way similar to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/swing_thoughts\/hooties_balls\/\" title=\"Hootie's Balls\">that other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/balls\/the_long_ball_distance_is_everything\/\" title=\"Distance is Everything\">distance debate<\/a>&#8221; in that it presents the opportunity for effectively different sets of rules for professionals and &#8220;weekend players.&#8221; The pro has access to super-accurate yardages; the weekend player does not. Instead, amateurs are forced to wander around golf courses looking for sprinkler heads, pacing things off, and &#8220;guesstimating&#8221; how deep a green is, how their angle affects the distance, how far off a water hazard is, and whether the sprinkler head even has the correct yardage.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, bifurcation exists within the amateur ranks themselves. Sometimes, the availability of accurate yardages varies depending on the course you&#8217;re playing &#8211; some courses offer their own accurate yardage books while other courses do not. Rule 14-3b penalizes golfers who don&#8217;t have the time to create a yardage guide for their own course, the use of which <em>would<\/em> be legal.<\/p>\n<p>Allow range finders and GPS and everyone can once again play under the same sets of rules. Tournaments that wished to disallow the use of range finders or GPS units in play could simply create a local rule disallowing their use just as the PGA Tour chooses to institute a local rule that disallows practice putting following the completion of a hole.<\/p>\n<p>The USGA &#8211; and the game of golf &#8211; would lose nothing by allowing players to use range finders or GPS units (like the SkyCaddie, seen below). Speed of play would improve as players would no longer need to pace off shots, guess, or calculate the hypotenuse of a right triangle in their heads when they veer from the center of the fairway. Scoring would improve slightly as players would choose better clubs, particularly when playing new courses.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;m not advocating that all &#8220;measuring devices&#8221; be made legal &#8211; I still believe that if you want to know how the wind will affect your shot, lick your thumb and stick it in the air or toss some grass. Yardage measurements have existed for decades, and it&#8217;s time for the USGA to recognize it and once again level the playing field.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, lighten up, USGA. You&#8217;re turning a whole bunch of golfers into cheaters while the pros and better amateurs take full advantage of their caddies, lasers, GPS, and super-accurate yardage books. A bunch of golfers that believe one rule is silly is more likely to violate another rule. Commonplace rule-breaking will spread, and soon, the game of golf will be less and less like the game as we know it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/accessories\/skycaddie_in_hand.jpg\" height=\"243\" width=\"250\" alt=\"Skycaddie In Hand\" class=\"bordered\" \/>The USGA has long acted as if rule 14-3b will go away if they ignore it long enough. The history lesson at the beginning of this article serves merely to illustrate that the USGA is looking in the wrong direction: progress pushes us forward. The &#8220;pure feel&#8221; player does not exist anymore, but the golfer who violates a stupid rule is spreading like wildfire.<\/p>\n<p>One of the guiding principles of the rules of golf is equity. In fact, Rule 1-4 makes this more than principle:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If any point in dispute is not covered by the Rules, the decision should be made in accordance with equity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the spirit of equity, rule 14-3b should go the way of the dodo, and there are signs that the USGA may be considering doing just that. In an article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/other\/tight_lies_tour_says_what_rules_allows_gps\/\" title=\"SkyCaddie to be Used on the Tight Lies Tour\">Tight Lies Tour adopting the SkyCaddie for use in its events<\/a>, Executive Director of the USGA David Fay was quoted as saying &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s any secret that the USGA favors allowing them to be used under the rules. My personal view is that it enables guys like me to get the type of yardage assistance that (caddie) Steve Williams is providing Tiger Woods.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the next time this rule could be changed is not until 2008, the next time the USGA and the R&amp;A will meet to discuss rules changes in their &#8220;every-four-years&#8221; schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The game of golf should be decided by skill, not the accuracy of a number. Knowing that you&#8217;ve got 156 yards to the pin with 134 to carry the front bunker won&#8217;t help you hit the shot. You&#8217;ve still gotta do that, and it&#8217;s there &#8211; in the inherent skill of a golfer &#8211; that winners and losers should be decided.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">Photo Credits: &#38;copy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komelon.co.kr\/pro\/pro04_01.asp\" title=\"Komelon USA\" class=\"external external_icon\">Komelon USA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/emeralddunes.com\/\" title=\"Emerald Dunes\" class=\"external external_icon\">Emerald Dunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skygolfgps.com\/products\/sg2.asp\" title=\"SkyCaddie\" class=\"external external_icon\">SkyCaddie.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s illegal to use laser- and GPS-enabled range finders on the golf course during handicap and tournament play. But should it be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[98,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot_topics","category-swing_thoughts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rule 14-3b: The &quot;Range Finder&quot; Rule (Hot Topics, Swing Thoughts) - The Sand Trap .com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/swing_thoughts\/rule_14-3b_the_range_finder_rule\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Rule 14-3b: The &quot;Range Finder&quot; Rule (Hot Topics, Swing Thoughts) - The Sand Trap .com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"It&#039;s illegal to use laser- and GPS-enabled range finders on the golf course during handicap and tournament play. 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