[Picture: Steve Gibbons/USGA] When a match in a USGA championship ends on the 20th hole, it frequently wraps up with some drama. In a way that was the case during a first-round showdown between Ryan O’Rear and Paul Mitzel at the US Mid-Amateur Championship on Monday at Troon Country Club in Scottsdale. Just not the Read more…
A British pro finds himself in hot water with the DP World Tour and his fellow players after incriminating video has surfaced showing he failed to replace a ball after it moved two weeks ago at the Nexo Championship at Trump International in Scotland.
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.
Despite the top two players in the world having to give up their drivers after creeping into nonconforming status ahead of the PGA Championship and the surrounding hubbub from certain quarters suggesting the driver test needed to be rethought, the USGA will not be changing its plans for testing at next week’s US Open.
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.
Nearly a week after six-time LPGA winner Nasa Hataoka was disqualified from the ShopRite LPGA Classic after she signed an incorrect scorecard because she was deemed to have taken too long to search for her ball, the Japanese star posted on social media a long and critical response.
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