I've been a student at three PGA/USGA Rules of Golf seminars and left each of them learning so much, but with my head spinning at the complexity of the rules, the language used and the 500 pages of related decisions.
The rules had me shaking my head at how easy it would be to make a costly mistake without ever intending to do so. I felt like I needed to have a law degree just to get through the 34 definitions.
Nearly every proposed change announced last week by the USGA and Royal & Ancient achieves the stated goals of making the rules more easily understood and applied for all golfers.