Who knew golf was this much fun?

Croquet putting: Golf’s unconscionable ban on putting between your legs. - Slate Magazine:

"There’s nothing more traditional in the grand old game, in fact, than banning goofy putting practices. Consider the case of the croquet-style stroke, which the sport’s protectors banned 45 years ago because, as the then executive director of the USGA put it, “the game of golf was becoming bizarre.” Heaven forfend!"