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Over the years, the USGA and R&A have updated the do's and don'ts of the putting stroke quite a bit, most recently prohibiting golfers from using an anchored stroke in 2016. We understand you might ...

Call it a misunderstanding. Call it sneaky. Call it a huge mistake. Any of those reactions are reasonable when a concession in match play is given because of bad information. What happens when you ...

Last week in our league a player hit the wrong ball. The penalty, I know, is two strokes or loss of hole. The problem: We were playing medal play and match play. For some reason, the director of golf ...

Most golfers associate Rule 18.1 — the stroke-and-distance rule — with a familiar sinking feeling: a tee shot or approach sailing into oblivion. Reload, take your penalty and move on, muttering to ...

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