Dan Rapaport has suggested that the R&A and USGA need to step in with a new rule, as long putters remain a controversial ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – There comes a moment in every discussion when dialogue can go in one of two directions, and golf has reached that tipping point. Either the conversation can careen down an unproductive ...

The United States Golf Association(USGA), working with The R&A, sets the equipment standards that define what players can use in competition. At elite events that adopt the Model Local Rule, a driver ...

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Professional golf’s civil war just took a sharp turn that would send shockwaves across the golf community. This move would have sounded unthinkable when LIV Golf’s inception first fractured the men’s ...

Most golfers associate Rule 18.1 — the stroke-and-distance rule — with a familiar sinking feeling: a tee shot or approach sailing into oblivion. Reload, take your penalty and move on, muttering to ...

Two-time PGA Tour winner Akshay Bhatia recently found himself facing allegations of golf anchoring during the second round at ...

If you’ve ever hit a perfect drive, only to find your ball sitting uncomfortably in a nasty lie, you know the frustration. It feels like an unfair punishment for doing everything right. And no one ...