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Well ?
If a golf ball moved while a player addressing the golf ball, or not ? The game is formed around rule and regulations. To compete in the highest level of this game, every natty gritty matters, and everyone needs to conform, for fairness of play.
For the weekend golfers, who cares ?
We like to attack the USGA and in a few cases they deserved the criticism. No one like to be policed. All we have to do is take a step back and imagine a world without enforced rules and regulations. I don't believe human beings are capable of self governing at this point of evolution. Perhaps in a few centuries if, we don't extinguish ourselves first.