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

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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You can't turn on your rangefinder's slope function in tournament play, but what about in recreational golf? The answer might ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wilson, 56, recently was named to the United States Golf Association (USGA) National Rules Committee, which means he now is ...

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