On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:11:56 -0700 (PDT), DCI
wrote:

PS: The folks on rec.sport.golf know that the game is the only one
in which rules of golf is governed and applied by the players who
demonstrate ethics by applying those rules to themselves. It's the
player against the course, not against other players. I hold serious
golfer in high regard fro this aspect of the game. And of interest, in
all other sports, chiseling against the rules is called gamesmanship,
as it that were the epitome of sports and politics.

Sure, other games that depend upon players applying rules to
themselves don't use the rules of golf.

I have played other games without referees though.

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than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

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