Golf finally gets a new rule book, and it took the equivalent of only one year … of a dog’s life.

The U.S. Golf Association and the R&A, golf’s two governing bodies, spent seven years overhauling the game’s rule book. They reviewed feedback from more than 30,000 golfers. It was the most substantial revision in any major sport in recent memory, the sporting equivalent of Obamacare or, for older readers, the Reagan tax cuts.