... links.”Then, in 1952, the rules became uniform world-wide as the usga and the r&a joined forces to issue asingle rulebook. Among other changes, they abol-ished the stymie — at the insistence ... words. The lost-ball rule(like all the others) lost the second-person you, whichwas replaced by the third-person player. Although the 1812 rule more closely resembles the modern rule, the phrasing ... history of the rules The Rules of Golf trace their lineage to 1744, when the golfers of Leith, Scotland, drew up 13 rules of playcomprising just 338 words (printable in half a page).Some of these...