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PGA Championship 2024: Brooks Koepka took advantage of this common rules misconception and turned it into a round-changing eagle
There is a popular misconception that if are you taking free relief from a sprinkler head (see Rule 16.1), then you must stay in the same “cut of grass” that you were in. That is not the case.
Season Preview: Rahmbo’s Ready To LIV It Up
What’s in store for Jon Rahm on LIV Golf in 2024?
Evin Priest explores the Masters champion’s debut season.
LIV Golf Adelaide Preview: You little Ripper!
A behind-the-scenes look at Cam Smith’s Ripper GC, including how the four-man Australian team prepared for season two of LIV Golf.
Presidents Cup preview: Balancing act
A cloud of uncertainty hangs over the Presidents Cup. But International team captain Trevor Immelman says he’s ready for whatever happens in the lead-up to this month’s event at Quail Hollow.
Open Championship 2023: The quirky feature behind Hoylake’s greatest holes
Hoylake is a venue known perhaps as much for its legacy of world-class winners as it is for its historically insidious holes where out-of-bounds plays a somewhat outsized role.
USGA executive says incorrect relief given to Rory McIlroy during US Open final round
a little more than a week after he finished one shot short of Wyndham Clark at Los Angeles Country Club, a USGA executive acknowledged that a free drop Rory McIlroy received during a critical moment of the final round was incorrectly administered.
For the last time, the PGA is NOT run by the PGA Tour: An idiot’s guide to who runs what in golf
This is the time of the year where the PGA (Professional Golfers’ Association) of America vs PGA Tour confusion reaches its peak. Confusion reigns about what golf’s other main bodies do, too.
Golf’s darkest day
The sun was out, the wind was down and the field was away.
Yet the 2002 Australian Open stopped not long after play started. Two decades on, we revisit the day Australian golf made world headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Uncertainty over Presidents Cup roster leaves International captain Trevor Immelman preparing for anything
The 42-year-old South African should only have to wait a few more days before he’ll know who is staying and who is going.
US Open 2022: 8 questions to ponder as the USGA explores how to address golf’s distance issue
These are still early days regarding any possible changes to the rules.
US Open 2022: Has the US Open become too one-dimensional?
The US Open has fused its DNA to presenting a challenge more exhaustive than its counterparts, where pars matter and “good bogey” isn’t said in jest. When that challenge appears watered down, it calls for a larger discussion.
Masters 2022: Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley’s position on distance is clear enough to those who listen closely
At Wednesday’s annual pre-Masters address with the media, Ridley seemed to concede that both the rules and the course may change, and the latter likely will not depend entirely on the former.
Masters 2021: Abraham Ancer hit with two-stroke penalty after signing card
The tournament announced the decision after the rules committee reviewed video evidence, and after Ancer signed his scorecard and exited the scoring area.
Masters 2021: Might it be that Dustin Johnson’s greatest strength is his mind?
Five months after he ate up Augusta, Dustin Johnson, golf’s Zen master, is hungry for more.
When it comes to golf tradition, the Open Championship has no peer
Why The Open is THE Major among the four Majors.
2018 US Open: How did we get here? Thank Frank Hannigan
The long-time USGA czar is the reason why we’re watching this US Open from Shinnecock Hills and not a lesser venue.
Players vs USGA: Why can’t they be friends?
The aftermath of Sunday at Oakmont revived some of the latent tension of tour pros towards the USGA. It also might have helped the two sides begin to find common ground
