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For about a decade, I was involved in sailboat racing at the local and national level.  I raced in the Albacore class.  The Albacore is a two-person, 15-foot planing one-design sailboat with a mainsail and jib.wholesale golf  For much of that time, I was on the US specifications committee for the class, including serving as measurer for two national championships.  In that role, I was exposed to another important aspect of the rules.  This time, it's an unfortunate aspect.
There are many to whom winning is important enough that they push the rules, look for loopholes (advantages that the rules intended to prevent, but they weren't sufficiently tight), and occasionally exceed the Ping K15 Fairway Woodrules and take their lumps.  Most serious competitors fall into this category.
But there are also those who want to win so badly that they deliberately break the rules and hope they don't get caught.  When we encounter people like this in society at large, we call them "criminals"; in sportTaylormade R9 Forged Ironss, they are merely "cheaters".
An observation from sailboat racing:  all too often the cheaters had a commercial interest in winning.  Typically they were boatbuilders or sailmakers.  Not all of the special-interest guys were cheaters; I remember some highly competitive and scrupulously honest "professionals" who were also talented enough to win regularly.  But most of the cheaters I saw were indeed in the sailing business, and stood to make money -- either directly or indirectly through favorable buzz -- if they, or their boats, or their sails won a big regatta.
We on the specifications committee saw our goals quite clearly.  We were the elected representatives of the participants in Albacore racing, and our job was to protect their interest in fair competition.  The mostTaylormade R9 Max Irons pointed statement of our goals would be:
   Racing in the class should be a contest of individual skill.  It should not be possible to buy an advantage by spending more money than your competitors.
This is the essence of a one-design class.  (The America's Cup race is different.  It is sailed in a "development class" which promotes design and technology advance as well as sailing skill.Callaway Diablo Edge Irons  The result is the expenditure of huge sums to win.)
In support of this objective, the committee had to (1) set the rules properly, and (2) enforce the rules strictly.  Both were essential to maintain the class as a "family-oriented" one-design class.  

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