Where can you clean and pick up your golf ball on the course?
Golf balls get dirty. They spend a lot of time on grass, in sand and around mud, and golf balls tend to pick up some organic matter from where they lie. Sometimes, that means golf balls have debris — particularly mud — on them, and that matter can affect how far and straight a golf […]
How long do golfers have to play a shot when it’s their turn?
In golf, pace of play matters. Lots of golfers can’t stand 18-hole rounds which drag into five or six hours of their day. Part of golf’s pace of play problem is many golfers simply choose to take as long as they need to hit a shot, or they don’t get moving quickly enough when it […]
Did Collin Morikawa incorrectly mark his ball during the first round of the Masters?
Speculation erupted after cameras showed Collin Morikawa marking his ball.
Tiger Woods brings balata balls from Augusta National in his favor of slowing down the game
Woods said on a competitive level, the change would create more of a separation among the elites.
Why you don’t hear or see ‘All Square’ any longer in golf match play, instead hear ‘tied’
In match-play golf, when a match is even, we’ve said forever that the match is “All Square.” However, with the new Rules of Golf introduced in 2019, the term “All Square” has been removed from match-play vocabulary. From here on out, when a match-play golf contest is even, we’re now supposed to use the more […]
Bubba Watson, LIV’s Bubba Watson, says that golf is at an all-time high. Let’s not mess with it.
Bubba Watson wants to know why is it when someone shoots 10-under three straight days “we get mad.”
After his ball became stuck in a tree at Dubai Desert Classic, Patrick Reed was embroiled in a rules dispute
Patrick Reed finds himself involved in another golf rules controversy after his ball got stuck in a tree during Sunday’s third round of the 2023 Dubai Desert Classic. With Rory McIlroy playing in the group directly behind his, Reed’s tee shot on the 17th hole wound up stuck in a tree. The ball was not […]
We’re all better because the Rules of Golf have changed to include the Rickie Fowler Rule.
Back at the 2019 Waste Management Phoenix Open, Rickie Fowler faced one of the great indignities a golfer could ever experience — and it was all because of the Rules of Golf. In the final round of a tournament Fowler desperately wanted to win — and was his last PGA Tour win to this point […]
Alana Uriell was disqualified from the LPGA Q-Series due to signing an incorrect scorecard
LPGA Q-Series was especially brutal for Alana Uriell.
Mark Hubbard DQs, after he “knowingly added 15th clubs” and used them at Cadence Bank Houston Open
This is something you don’t see every day.