The new Rules of Golf to debut in 2019

Six years in the making and 12 months after a first draft was circulated to the golf world for comment, officials with the USGA and R&A have settled on a new, modernised version of the Rules of Golf that will go into effect January 1, 2019.

A new era for handicaps

The R&A and USGA will introduce a new – and simpler – World Handicap System in 2020.