Last trip to Scotland, we ran into a pub owner who told us that the pub business was way down due to the fact that workers didn't come into the pubs after work anymore, because the police had cracked down on suspected driving while under the influence. This was long before this law went into effect. Who can fault the lowering of blood alcohol levels. As an ortho surgeon who has seen his share of smashed up people innocently hit by a drunk, I wish we would do the same in the US. Alcohol and golf don't mix. Go to wherever you are staying to drink or get a designated driver.

Lowering the alcohol level is not always a solution to the scourge of drunk driving.A level of zero percent would would be the answer.Might hurt the pub ownwer but it will make roads safer.

Wish they could lower the level here in South Africa where our road death toll is frightening.Weekends especially.Maybe our authorities should take a leaf out of the book of countries in the Northern hemisphere.

There more golfers that drink a beer or scotch etc during or after a round than those who don't. The lowering level to a BAC of .05 is overkill.

.08 is low enough to do its job. Too bad for the pub owners trying to make a living.

What a ridiculous article; the sensible law change will have no impact whatsoever on visitor numbers to Scotland . Scotland has simply come into line with Ireland and the rest of Europe. England, Wales and N.I. will follow The Home of Golf in due course.

This has been law in Australia for a couple of decades and has been a big contributor to a reduction in road deaths. And the good news is, golf clubs here still exist. Maybe try drinking something smaller than pint, or light beer, or pick a mate to be the "designated driver". But when you drink it, make it,cold!!

Lowering the blood alcohol limit is politically popular, but what research is it based on? We are never given the figures of accidents involving drivers with low range [.05 to .08 ]. All we hear about are higher range incidents. I suspect very few drivers in the target range are involved.

Tim, instead of just trying to justify your comments by the points you have added, why not offer some kind of apology as well. You only partially manned up by accepting you made an error in judgment. You said yourself that the fault was with you for "writing it imprecisely"

Now nan up further and apologise for your oversights and we can all move on.

This reminds me of the man who unfortunately died in his sleep - with a smile on his face - unlike his passengers.

I'm all in favor of Scotland’s government lowering the legal blood-alcohol limit while driving from .08% to .05%. But wouldn't it make sense to simultaneously lower the legal blood-alcohol limit for chipping, putting and hitting iron shots???