All sorts of rules have been made and named after professional athletes after something happens during the course of a game that needs clarification.

The NFL is notorious for this. We’ve all heard of the Ricky Rule, which states a player’s hair is part of his uniform, the Rooney Rule, which requires teams filling a coaching position to interview minority candidates and the Brady Rule, which makes it illegal for defensive players to lunge at the knees of the quarterback.

Now, the PGA has joined the fraternity of player-induced rules.

Introducing the Furyk Rule.

We all know what happened to Jim Furyk at the first leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs this year, The Barclays. Furyk’s cell phone, on which he keeps his alarm, died causing him to miss his pro-am tee time by mere minutes, and resulted in his disqualification from the entire tournament.

People were in an uproar. It was pure coincidence. Furyk didn’t intentionally miss the tee time. He showed up barefoot five minutes after his group went out. It was a rule that was too harsh, and even in some cases, ignored.

So, the Tour suspended the rule for the remainder of the season. Luckily for Furyk, missing out on The Barclays didn’t cost him his shot at the $10 million FedEx Cup, which he won.

Now, the Furyk Rule has been adopted full-time, PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem announced.

“If you’re negligent with respect to a tee time in the pro-am – negligent, meaning, you made a mistake for whatever reason – it’s not a disqualification.

“If you blow it off, then you’re not going to be able to play in that tournament.”

The rule, Finchem admits, is “somewhat vague, but intentionally so, because we want the flexibility to deal with situations that may differ.”

What I interpret the intentionally vague nature of the rule to mean is that if you’re not a big name player that commands television and sponsorship dollars, then you better be at the course on time.

But as it stands, the PGA has taken a step in the right direction and what happened to Furyk at The Barclays won’t happen again.