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Open Championship 2025: Shane Lowry assessed two-shot penalty after R&A review of practice swing
Cameras had a close-up view of Lowry’s ball in the rough as he took a practice swing at the 12th hole, and the ball visibly moved after his iron passed through the nearby grass.
Masters 2025: Rory McIlroy roars into contention, a day after HORRIBLE rules gaffe during double-bogey
Rory McIlroy rocketed into Masters contention on day two at Augusta National, a day after forgetting the rules led to one of two double-bogeys.
The Most Memorable Rules Incidents In Masters History
Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Rory McIlroy and Arnold Palmer have all been involved in gaffes
2024 Olympic Preview: Green & Gold
A look inside the Australian men’s and women’s teams for the Olympics in Paris, where the two sides will chase the country’s first medal in the golf event.
US Open 2024: What goes on inside the rules office at a major? We got a glimpse
Rules officials are not there to decide on the validity of the rules, but rather to enforce them and make sure they’re administered equally for all 156 players in the field.
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.
To the Victor go the spoils: What it’s like to juggle playing LIV Golf and the DP World Tour
Frenchman Victor Perez lives in Scotland, resided in the Bahamas while playing on the PGA Tour in America and has family ties to Australia. He’s also one of eight LIV Golf pros now officially accepted by the DP World Tour as dovetailing the two circuits throughout 2026.
LIV Golf sounds off after finally receiving Official World Golf Ranking points
LIV events will be ranked based on OWGR’s standard classification of ‘Small Field Tournaments’ with a ‘Ranking points distribution cutoff’ applied to award points to players who finish in the top 10 (and ties).
Opinion: The recipe for better golf tournaments is deceptively simple
Why the ‘recipe’ of executing exceptional golf tournaments is deceptively simple.
US Open 2025: How Bryson DeChambeau barely avoided an all-time boneheaded penalty
If you weren’t paying close attention, you probably missed what exactly happened to Bryson DeChambeau on the fourth hole at Oakmont during his opening round. Luckily for the two-time US Open champ, a nearby rules official didn’t.
‘It was scary as f–k’: Inside the FBI sting for stolen Masters goods
The ring extends beyond one former Augusta warehouse worker going to jail
Lights, shadows and staying up late: LIV golfers are excited for 2025 opener after dark, despite hurdles
All three rounds at the Riyadh Golf Club will be held under lights, with the 54-player field teeing off in LIV’s shotgun starts just after 6pm, local time.
LIV Golfers allowed to play in Ryder Cup
The PGA of America will allow LIV Golf members to compete at the 2025 Ryder Cup.
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.
