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Originally Posted by Fileygolfer

And WHO runs The Open?
The R&A.

An Open Championship is televised to all corners of the world and the R&A will want it to finish on time. So to suspend play for Wind for a long time is the last option.

And Atticus, how are you so sure it wasn't used during The Open?

Any LR proposal still has to be formally presented to Rules Committee prior to the event being played. You still don't just create them willy-nilly.

And I stand by my earlier comment that they have to have discussed and rejected such a LR long since. This is NOT the first time such a discussion has been sparked by windy conditions at a tournament, and the continuing omission of any such Rule tells me that we shouldn't expect that to change any time soon.

I could be wrong... they might propose such a LR tomorrow... but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it.