The Rules of Golf specify when (and why) removing sticks, leaves, etc. is allowed without being hit with a penalty ...

Here's what the Rules of Golf says you should do if you didn't see your ball land and there an equal chance it might be in one of two places ...

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Ask golfers how the Rules of Golf impact their round, and almost all will say that they add strokes to their score. It’s not an unreasonable perspective. We are conditioned, especially in sports, to ...

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The U.S. Golf Association and the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews have announced a new interpretation not previously contemplated by the Rules of Golf where disqualifications have been caused ...

It can sometimes seem that the Rules of Golf are out to get you and not devised to be fair or work at all in your favor (ball in a divot, anyone?). But there are some scenarios where the way the rules ...

Craig Winter, USGA Senior Director, Rules of Golf and Amateur Status, wants to make things perfectly clear: Do not call this the Matt Fitzpatrick rule. For one thing, Model Local Rule G-9 has been in ...

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