Introduced in 2019 but still underused by amateurs, this new rule could make provisionals – or worse, and the dreaded reload – a thing of the past.

Ask golfers how the Rules of Golf impact their round, and almost all will say that they add strokes to their score. It’s not an unreasonable perspective. We are conditioned, especially in sports, to ...

Midland’s John Wilson has spent a lifetime playing golf. Now, he has an opportunity to administer the game at the highest ...

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Since the beginning of 2025, Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour, and the USGA have constantly been discussing the possibility of implementing a ball rollback rule. There have been many debates among the ...

the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, to take control of the sport’s increasingly obvious distance predicament. Although a new and improved USGA ball test is set to take effect in June, a ...