Yep, I am of the Showup, Keepup, and Shutup category where caddies are concern. I most diffinitely think it should be a rule violation for the player to recieve help from anybody, including the course marshalls/rules official. Some of these pros have no idea, they ask the rules official what to do, if they don't know, then that is thier problem in my view. Get DQ a few times and they will learn.

Seems like every sport has some type of goofy rules that takes the pressure off the pro, like the DH for pitchers in baseball, I still can't believe that is been going on since 73...jeez, if they can't hit, then why are they there in the first place. Wait until they start that junk in golf.

A DP..designated putter...lmao...you know for them guys that can't putt, they can just hand the caddy the putter and let them putt for them...lol..hell they damm near do every thing for the pro now, why not just take the next step. Will be a sad for golf when they do. They are talking about the range finders, the rules just keep getting more muddled every year. Maybe they can add a circle around the hole, if they get inside it, you get a free putt gimmie, you know like basketball three pointer...lol..or if a guy like haney or tiger drivers to far, they can add weight to his clubs to slow him down, like in horse racing. Goofy rules piss me off, they need to go back to the original rules of golf, make them guys have to chip over thier oponents ball to hole out...lol...now that is golf.