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Masters 2025: Why one PGA Tour winner needed to consult with rules officials before the tournament even began
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Take a stroll around Augusta National during a Masters practice round and you’re bound to see several staples. Patrons hauling around big bags of merch. Players putting to numerous hole locations on the course’s signature greens. Players and caddies having extended conversations. But you don’t expect to see the latter between players Read more…
The Most Memorable Rules Incidents In Masters History
Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Rory McIlroy and Arnold Palmer have all been involved in gaffes
Rules Review: Two balls just collided in mid-air! What’s the ruling on that?
When two balls in motion at the same time run into each other, how you proceed depends on where the balls were when the strokes were made.
LPGA’s pace-of-play guru explains new rules and penalties that should make players more aware of the clock
Fines for slow play weren’t doing the trick, so the tour is turning to stroke penalties.
Rules Review: My opponent sets his clubhead behind the ball before taking his stance. Is that breaking the rule about aiming?
Setting an object down means that the object is in contact with the ground and the player is not touching the object.
Players 2025: J.J. Spaun was playing his way out of contention. Then he got an all-time Rules of Golf break
There was a time on the ninth hole during the final round when Spaun could have played his way out of the tournament, only to figure out a way to use the Rules of Golf to his advantage and keep him momentum going.
Broadcasters befuddled as rules question arises involving a major champion
ORLANDO — Not every apparent rules question we see on TV turns out to result in a penalty—or even an actual violation. In the second round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Friday, Wyndham Clark took a drop after finding his ball embedded in the fairway at the par-4 third hole at Bay Hill Club. Read more…
Adam Hadwin got royally screwed by the Rules of Golf on Thursday at Bay Hill
Golf fans often lament the fact that tour pros use the Rules of Golf to their advantage.
Rules: Clean-Up Job
Occasionally you might encounter a course where the greens are in rough shape. Here’s what you can – and can’t – do to make them better.
Rules Review: I took an unplayable but my drop ended up in an even worse spot. What happens now?
There is no guarantee your ball will be playable after a drop is taken.
Rules Review: I love my lie, but I have to stand in ground under repair to hit the shot. Is that allowed?
When it comes to ground under repair, it’s usually your choice.
Scottie Scheffler gets a couple of huge TIO rules breaks after terrible tee shot
SAN DIEGO — A horrible break on a bad drive, followed by one of the most cagey uses of the rules we’ll ever see, highlighted the opening half hour of Scottie Scheffler’s second round of the Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines. Call it a very “Scottie” par. MORE: The weather was bad and Scottie Scheffler Read more…
Rules Review: I didn’t know I’d holed out and played another ball thinking my first was lost. Which score counts?
Golf can be sadistic, but in this case, the rules work in your favour.
Lee Westwood suffers crazy Rules violation at LIV Golf season-opener, leaves broadcasters dumbfounded
Playing an entire tournament “under the lights” always had the potential to create some unusual Rules of Golf situations, particularly with a $20 million prize money payout on the line. But the Rules violation that tripped up Lee Westwood during Friday’s second round of the LIV Golf season-opener in Saudi Arabia had everyone befuddled. “Well Read more…
Rules Review: What happens if you break two rules before hitting your next shot?
Rule 1.3c covers this and goes on to clarify what happens in general when a player breaches a rule and then breaches another rule before the next stroke.
Watch Scottie Scheffler use the Rules of Golf to his advantage to make a ‘lucky’ par from the beach at Pebble Beach’s 18
It’s been going on three years now that Scottie Scheffler has made golf look really easy, even when it can be really hard. The latest example came Friday and involved one of the game’s most picturesque holes, the par-5 18th at Pebble Beach. Scheffler was two under on the day and seven under overall heading Read more…
Rules Review: I’m searching for my ball in the rough and accidentally kick it. Penalty or not?
Thankfully, the Rules of Golf are fairly friendly in a handful of circumstances when a golf ball is accidentally moved – but not in all instances.
This rules change will probably make Matt Fitzpatrick both happy and angry
As of January 1, 2025, in competitions where the Model Local Rule is in effect, visible cracks to the face and clubhead now also constitute “broken or the damage significant” enough to allow the club to be removed (providing it was not caused by player abuse).
Akshay Bhatia mistakenly hits ball that was out-of-bounds, becomes latest victim of not reading local rules closely enough
The lefty contended it “didn’t say that on the sheet”, but then he was shown that, in fact, it did say that on the local rules sheet. Ouch.
