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What: “Blue Collar Rules”

Author: Terry Terril (Illustrations by James Denny)

Publisher: BlueCollarPress.com

Price: $8

This handbook is not to be confused with the “White Collar Rules” of golf, better known as the “USGA Official Rules of Golf.” This is for golfers simply out for a friendly round with some buddies.

All golfers know about adjusting rules. Now here it is in print that it’s OK to make adjustments, courtesy of Terry Terril of Tampa, Fla., and talented cartoonist James Denny.

The book’s point of view is that holding novice golfers to a set of rules that can frustrate them serves no purpose.

Many of the adjusted rules or variations that Terril writes about are familiar to most golfers. They know about giving a mulligan a side, and that mulligans on the first tee don’t count.

Terril points out that the key is for everyone in the group to agree on adjustments. If one golfer likes to roll over, or bump, his ball to give it a better lie, then all golfers in the group should agree that this is permitted.

Details: bluecollarrules.com or (813) 996-3707.

-- Larry Stewart