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Macdonald's address to the USGA delegation, "Now , Gentleman, that we want is to get together on the best most feasible basis with St.Andrews and let the note of this meeting be 'Unification'. I believe it will be best accomplished if you will adopt their clause and then take the matter up with the R&A Golf Club. You will never regret it. I am perfectly confident they will meet any suggestions made by the United States GC with deliberate consideration and courtesy. Therefore, Gentlemen, if I am right why change anything? Section 10 of the USGA covers it all. The USGA to my knowledge has never retrograded, never done a foolish thing, and for my part I am perfectly willing to let the matter rest in their hands."
NY Times 1/17/1907
"Not only did the delegates decline to accept the St.Andrews ruling barring centre-shafted clubs, but they amended the by-laws of the association, which now requires us to play according to the St.Andrews rules. In other words, if St.Andrews should amend the rules in any particular in the future, the change would not apply in this country. No rules will hereafter obtain in this country unless affirmatively adopted here."
American Golfer
"The action taken at the meeting of the USGA simply means, in brief, that while mallet-headed clubs are barred both by St.Andrews and the USGA, the latter body legalizes putters of the Schenectady type, whereas the R&A does not. In other words, we do not regard a Schenectady as a mallet. All this accomplished by the revision of Section 10 of the By-Laws of the USGA, the plan suggested by The American Golfer last month. ….It will be noted that Section 10 as amended provides that no changes in the 1908 Code, as have been or may hereafter be made by St.Andrews, will be accepted by the Executive Committee of the USGA unless, in their judgment, such changes may seem wise."
USGA ruling:
"Resolved, That Section X of the By-Laws of this association be, and the same are, hereby amended to read the follows:
The competition shall be played in accordance to the rules of golf as approved by the R&A Golf Club of St.Andrews, Scotland, September, 1908, with such amendments and interpretations only as may have been or may be hereafter adopted by the USGA, together with such local rules as are in force and published on the green over which the competition are played."
Section X formerly read that the competition shall be played in accordance to the rules of golf as approved by the R&A Golf Club of St.Andrews, Scotland, except otherwise by USGA or local interpretation.