The AARP has negotiated with the PGA to modify the rules of golf for seniors

Rule 1.a.5: A ball sliced or hooked into the rough shall be lifted and
placed on the fairway at a point equal to the distance it carried or rolled
into the rough with no penalty. The senior should not be penalized for tall
grass which groundskeepers failed to mow.

Rule 2.d.6 (b): A ball hitting a tree shall be deemed not to have hit the
tree. This is simply bad luck and luck has no place in a scientific game.
The senior player must estimate the distance the ball would have traveled if
it had not hit the tree and play the ball from there.

Rule 3.b.3(g): There shall be no such thing as a 'lost' ball. The missing
ball is on or near the course and will eventually be found and pocketed by
someone else, making it a stolen ball. The player is not to compound the
felony by charging himself or herself with a penalty.

Rule 4.c.7(h): If a putt passes over a hole without dropping, it is deemed
to have dropped. The law of gravity supersedes the Rules of Golf.

Rule 5: Putts that stop close enough to the cup that they could be blown
in, may be blown in. This does not apply to balls more than three inches from
the hole. No one wants to make a travesty of the game.

Rule 6.a.9(k): There is no penalty for so-called 'out of bounds.' If
penny-pinching golf course owners bought sufficient land, this would not
occur. The senior golfer deserves an apology, not a penalty.

Rule 7.g.15(z): There is no penalty for a ball in a water hazard, as golf
balls should float. Senior golfers should not be penalized for
manufacturers' shortcomings.

Rule 8.k.9(s): Advertisements claim that golf scores can be improved by
purchasing new golf equipment. Since this is financially impracticable for
many senior golfers, one-half stroke per hole may be subtracted for using old
equipment.

Please advise all you senior friends of these important rule changes.