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The USGA announced this week that after seeking comment on changing the implementation date for the new testing rule that could initially reduce elite driving distance by 15 yards, it is in fact now proposing that the rule not go into effect until 2030.
The R&A Sustainable Agronomy Service and the USGA Green Section will work with the global golf league to advance agronomic standards in its 14-event season that spans 10 countries and five continents.
This latest announcement indicates that golf’s ruling bodies are considering comments to do away with the two-year interim period, implementing the rollback rule for both elite golfers and average golfers starting in 2030.
Overnight, the R&A announced the eligibility for the qualifier, putting into picture the criteria for how the governing body is going to select the 12 players who will play in the 18-hole competition at Royal Birkdale.
Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley and R&A chief executive Mark Darbon have echoed Rory McIlroy’s sentiments from the recent controversial Ryder Cup at Bethpage that golf should be held to a higher standard of fan behaviour than other sports.
Australian golf legend Greg Norman has lifted the lid on his high-profile exit as LIV Golf chief executive officer and commissioner in an exclusive tell-all interview with Australian Golf Digest for its November 2025 issue.
Shooting to join fellow Japanese star Mao Saigo as an LPGA major winner this season, Miyu Yamashita shot a two-over 74 in the third round to maintain a lead – albeit a slim one at one shot – in the final major of the year.
Japan’s Miyu Yamashita sits at 11-under and leads by three shots, as Steph Kyriacou, Grace Kim and Minjee Lee were the only Australians to survive the halfway cut at Royal Porthcawl.
With the AIG Women’s British Open being contested this week, LPGA star Charley Hull spoke to the media and broke down her golf TV watching habits, which has minimal golf, or at least very little 21st-century golf.
Minjee Lee can move one step closer to her ambition of the LPGA ‘Super Slam’ with a victory at this week’s AIG Women’s Open that would make her a career Grand Slam winner.
Australian Golf Digest
