the Rules. Importantly, this new Decision also clarifies that players are permitted to access
information on the threat of an impending storm in order to protect their own safety.
- New Decision 18/4 provides that, where enhanced technological evidence (e.g. HDTV, digital
recording or online visual media, etc.) shows that a ball has left its position and come to rest
in another location, the ball will not be deemed to have moved if that movement was not
reasonably discernible to the naked eye at the time.
- Revised Decision 25-2/0.5 helps to clarify when a golf ball is considered to be embedded in
the ground through the use of illustrations.
- Revised Decision 27-2a/1.5 allows a player to go forward up to approximately 50 yards
without forfeiting his or her right to go back and play a provisional ball.
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