This document provides key policies and procedures that should be followed when submitting models of golf clubs and other equipment to the USGA for conformance evaluation. A model of club is defined ...

Raise your hand if you’re a golfer who at one time has made a New Year’s Resolution to become more familiar with The Rules of Golf? (Stops typing and puts hand in air.) Now, raise your hand if you ...

In the relative Stone Age of 2022, USGA rules expert Craig Winter was hanging out in the living room of his Washington State home with a friend of his wife's. The acquaintance was playing around on ...

The golf world has a formal pathway for professionals to step back and regain amateur status, and two-time PGA Tour winner ...

Golf has never suffered from a lack of rules. Understanding them, however, has always been a different story. For generations, golfers have debated relief options beside cart paths, argued over ...

The imminent approach of the ball rollback may have just gotten a little less imminent. In a notice to manufacturers, the USGA and R&A announced that they are considering revising the timeline for ...

FAR HILLS, N.J. - The United States Golf Association and Royal & Ancient have independently determined a rule that sets a uniform, worldwide standard for spring-like effect in driving clubs. This rule ...

The R&A says distance-reducing Model Local Rules are back on the table. Here’s why golf’s rollback debate may be headed in a ...

June 17 : The R&A and USGA have delayed the implementation of a new rule that would reduce the distance golf's longest hitters can achieve, moving the golf-ball rollback rule to 2030 rather than a ...