My playing partner's thinned drive came to rest in an un-mowed area 25 yards from the tee box, next to a red stake. The stake impeded his stance if he hit out sideways, which was reasonable, and was ...

Neil Tappin asks, are the rules of golf too confusing? And lays out the simple but equally compelling arguments for and ...

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 ...

A few years ago, the USGA set out on a mission to simplify and soften some of the unusual and harsh rules involved in the game of golf. As the sport’s ruling body, the organization was able to ...

Last week in our league a player hit the wrong ball. The penalty, I know, is two strokes or loss of hole. The problem: We were playing medal play and match play. For some reason, the director of golf ...

Wyndham Clark raised eyebrows when he took practice swings in a watery penalty area, but his clever use of a new rule led to an epic birdie.

There are things you can do to make your next shot easier as found in the Rules of Golf, but there are a lot of things you can’t do. Rule 8.1 covers actions players can’t do to because they would ...

The Rules of Golf have some pretty specific dos and don'ts regarding when you can touch the sand before a shot.