In 2025, the USGA and LPGA rewrote the rules of who could compete in elite women’s golf. The policy was framed as protecting ...

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 ...

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 ...

On March 19 she filed suit in New Jersey against the U.S. Golf Association, the LPGA, Hackensack Golf Club and three LPGA ...

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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Over the course of a year, Todd Stice estimates the USGA receives upwards of 20,000 rules questions, either via phone call, email or the Rules of Golf app. Many of them are fairly common according to ...

Dan Rapaport has suggested that the R&A and USGA need to step in with a new rule, as long putters remain a controversial ...

PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp says the Tour has not made a decision on the USGA and R&A plan to roll back golf ball distance starting in 2028.