The United States Golf Association, which governs the Rules of Golf alongside The R&A, updates its regulations to preserve ...

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 ...

You left the golf course with an 84 and when you woke up the next day, the Golf Handicap Information Network (GHIN) treated ...

Winter golf rules are a specific set of rules that apply to golf throughout the winter months, their aim being both to ...

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There are loads of golf rules out there, and quite a few have stirred up debate lately. Golf has no shortage of rules, many ...

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 ...

Not all golf scores are created equally. That’s why, in 2020, the United States Golf Association adopted a handicap rule called Playing Condition Calculation (PCC). Depending on how golfers perform on ...

Outgoing USGA president Fred Perpall was in attendance at the U.S. Junior Amateur at Trinity Forest in Dallas last month. Perpall’s appearance at the club where he is a founding member wasn’t the last ...

The walk-up, sometimes a sprint, has become iconic. When playing a casual round of golf, it's become somewhat of a challenge — approaching a ball, club in hands, and attempting a hockey-like slap-shot ...

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