If I told you that the rules of golf are being changed to require every hole on every course in the world to be of the same length; that every bunker must have exactly the same dimension; that fairway widths must be uniform on every hole; and that putting surfaces be of the exact same shape worldwide, you would think either that I had gone mad or you’d be checking the date at the top of this article to see if it was published on April 1st.
Yet there is one dimension on a golf course – and one dimension only – that we accept unquestionably as having to be the same on every course everywhere in every circumstance. That is the size of the hole cup.
