Are GPS devices allowed in comps?

I know the R&A passed a rule allowing clubs to pass a local rule allowing GPS devices but I was under the impression that they had now passed them legall for all comps?

Can anyone shed any light on this?? ::think:

Thanks.

John.

Me to John looks like I was given in acurrate info,  this is the info I have  found, It still appears that for your club comps a local rule would still  need to be used but I think its only a question of time before the R&A will introduce it.

 

The English Golf Union (EGU) has broken with tradition and decided to allow Distance-Measuring Devices (DMD) to be used in all its championships in 2009.

The move was agreed by the EGU's board of directors following the recommendation of the Championship Committee at a meeting at Woodhall Spa and the change will be written into the conditions of each of next year's events.

EGU officials have contacted the R&A and the other Home Unions to inform them of the move. Currently, distance-measuring devices are allowed by the R&A in domestic club competitions, where that club has introduced a Local Rule, otherwise they are only allowed in social games. The EGU's new stipulation may well force the hand of the R&A to recommend a blanket acceptance.

The Professional Golfers Association caused a storm earlier this year when it agreed that similar GPS satellite navigation devices would be allowed in its domestic events, though the devices are still banned on the European Tour and Challenge Tour, apart from in practice rounds.

Only DMDs that calculate distance will be permitted, says the EGU. Those providing other information such as wind speed, temperature and elevation, will not be allowed. Any player found using such a DMD will be in breach of Rule 14-3 for which the penalty is disqualification, regardless of whether any such additional function is actually used