July 26, 2003 7:11 AM

Worrying about spiders while elephants are stomping about

Wanna Get Teed Off?

Do you realize that if your ball is hanging on the lip of the hole, you only have 10 seconds to putt it in [16-2]? Sometimes, you can even see it rolling forward, but you have to putt it in 10 seconds, or it's one shot [penalty]. So they're telling you to hit a ball that's moving, which is also illegal.

- PGA Tour pro Tom Lehman

I LOVE the game of golf, but even I have trouble understanding the rationale (or lack of same) behind some of the ridiculous rules that you'll find in the Rules of Golf. Common sense seems to be in precariously short supply in some cases. If anyone can find some logic behind some of these rules, I'm all ears....

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