After one of 2025's biggest rules controversies, the USGA and the R&A made an update to its Model Local Rules. The post After one of 2025's biggest rules controversies, USGA, R&A make update appeared ...

The USGA today announced the launch of the pilot phase for Rules AI, its innovative, first-of-its-kind technology designed to make the Rules of Golf more accessible and understandable for golfers ...

Bryson DeChambeau was given a two-shot penalty during the second round of the 2026 Open Championship for violating Rule 8.1b. The post Bryson DeChambeau’s Open Championship rules controversy, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Call it the Paul Mitzel update. Or the Akshay Bhatia one. Or the Korn Ferry sixsome update. Any of those could work. Each refers to incidents in which a player or the player’s caddie claimed to have ...