I was looking up the rules of golf.


[begin quotes]
"The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is the governing authority
for the rules of the game in more than 100 affiliated nations"

"A common world-wide code has been administered by the R&A and the USGA
since 1952 following a four-day conference in a committee room at the House
of Lords which thrashed out the differences in the rules that had arisen on
opposite sides of the Atlantic. The two independent bodies now meet on a
regular basis and have worked successfully since 1952 to create a common
code."
[end quotes]


Unfortunately their online rules page is not ready yet:

http://www.randa.org/index.cfm?cfid=227344&cftoken=98133955&action=rules.rul
essub.rulespage

However some rules are available in a history site. This one mentions that
'metrication comes to golf' but only at the top of the page:

http://www.ruleshistory.com/rules1972.html


I found the following dual units in use here. Presumably the 'ounce' is the
imperial one. It also uses 'gm'. Perhaps there might be a case for
suggesting that they drop the non-metric units.

http://www.ruleshistory.com/appendices.html




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