Is this the year that will change the way we play golf?

Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy plays a chip shot during the first round of the Australian Open. [File]

In 1992, Queen Elizabeth II declared the year “annus horribilis”, a Latin phrase meaning a horrible year.

This was after death by suicide of her nephew, a lot of bad publicity on members of the Royal Family as well as a fire in the Windsor Castle.