President Donald Trump really wants for his Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland to be in line to be a future British Open Championship venue.
So, he reportedly...
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The 2020 Senior British Open Championship, one of the five majors recognized by PGA Tour Champions and the only one played outside the United States, has been...
Sometimes the golf ball doesn't look like it can ever fit in a golf hole. And sometimes the golf hole looks so big that you'll never miss. So, what size is the...
Golf balls don't last forever. They can get scuffed, damaged, split, cracked or otherwise disfigured -- and all of that can happen in the normal course of...
Good news! Now you can make a hole-in-one in a contest and win as much money as you like, and you can accept the prize while still maintaining your amateur...
The R&A and the USGA have announced changes to the World Amateur Golf Ranking formula that will kick in with the first update in January 2020.
The new...
Starting in 2020, your golf handicap is likely about to change (slightly) as the game's governing bodies are rolling out a new World Handicap System that will...
After hitting a funky-looking drive on the third hole at The Northern Trust on Friday, Webb Simpson realized he had an inch-and-a-half long crack on his driver...
Xander Schauffele spent two days scrambling to find a new driver after the R&A deemed his Callaway Golf driver illegal.
Beginning last year at Carnoustie...
Many golf fans were shocked to learn Xander Schauffele's driver was ruled illegal by the R&A ahead of the 2019 British Open Championship.
Schauffele talked...
The British Open Championship became the first of the four major championships to move to an aggregate-score playoff, introducing the four-hole playoff that...
After being denied the use of a cart by the R&A at Royal Portrush, John Daly has withdrawn from the 2019 British Open Championship. Kevin Streelman will...
One of the more controversial changes made by the USGA and R&A to the 2019 Rules of Golf was eliminating the ability for a player to replace a club damaged...
A few years after the European Tour allowed players to wear shorts in practice rounds, the PGA of America followed suit for its championships. Then the PGA...
For years, golfers like me have been casually using laser rangefinders or GPS units to figure out how far to the green, a hazard or any number of other places...
When I grew up playing golf, one of the many things I had to learn about the Rules of Golf was that I wasn't allowed to move anything out of the way in a...
For golfers of a certain vintage, they can vividly remember playing in a competition and having to ask a playing partner or opponent if they thought some...
Every once in a while, a golfer fumbles with their ball or their clubs or their ball marker on the putting green, and they accidentally move their ball while...
In the wake of controversies involving Haotong Li on the European Tour and Denny McCarthy on the PGA Tour, both tours took public stances against Rule...
The PGA Tour took the remarkable step on Saturday of rescinding the two-stroke penalty assessed to Denny McCarthy during Friday's second round of the 2019...
If you've ever had to take relief or a penalty stroke while playing golf, you've long known what to do. After identifying where you'll drop, you grab your...
We kick off the 2019 golf year with a new episode going over Xander Schauffele's big win at the Sentry Tournament of Champions.
Some key takeaways and...
The new Rules of Golf have changed how golfers drop when they take relief. From now on, golfers don't drop from shoulder height. They drop from knee...
When most golfers find a ball plugged in the turf on a golf course, they pull the ball out and take relief without thinking about it. If the ball is in the...
Golf has some pretty strange terms that are even confusing for golfers. One of those terms is "through the green."
The term "through the green" is really only...
When a golfer hits their ball in a yellow-stake water hazard, they know they have two options for relief.
They can take a stroke-and-distance penalty...
For so many recreational golfers, finding a bunker leads to a complete panic. Most recreational golfers don't have a chance to practice their bunker play...
There's a reason golfers take the flagstick out of the cup when every golfer's ball in their group is on the putting surface. For as long as anyone could...
One of the first things a golfer learns when they start playing on a golf course is how to take a drop.
After all, most new golfers stink, and they hit a lot...
When I grew up playing golf, one of the first things I learned on an actual golf course was that I couldn't ground my club in a water hazard. It didn't matter...
If you've played golf for more than a hot second, you probably know of lakes and streams and rivers and oceans on a golf course as "water hazards." There are...
When John Senden's driver snapped inside the grip at the 2018 Australian PGA Championship, the Aussie veteran was still in shock he would be forced to count...
The world's oldest golf tournament dates back to the American Civil War, but the oldest golf tournament wasn't founded in the United States.
The British Open...
The USGA and R&A have announced the creation of the World Ranking for Golfers with Disabilities (WRGD), which will launch at the start of 2019 as a means of...
Bryson DeChambeau is taking advantage of the new Rules of Golf, and he's putting with the flagstick in from now on.
The four-time PGA Tour winner has long held...
Starting in 2019, a new edition of the Rules of Golf will overhaul the rules of the sport. The USGA and the R&A got together as part of their four-year...
When the USGA and R&A announced their planned action to restrict the viability -- and therefore, the usage -- of green-reading books, the biggest initial...
On this week's show, Ryan talks about the devastating news Jarrod Lyle has stopped treatment for his third battle with leukemia and is pursuing a style of...
The days of green-reading books might be coming to an end -- or at least the days of their effectiveness.
The USGA and R&A have formally unveiled a...
On every hole on every golf course on the planet, there's a flagstick. That flagstick indicates where the golf hole is. Lots of golfers know they're trying to...
The era of green-reading books, or green books for short, may effectively be over in 2019.
Golfweek reports the game's governing bodies, the USGA and R&A...
FRANKFURT, Germany -- The R&A is going back to the future in the quest to keep golf valid in the 21st century.
In adding its support to the...
In PGA Tour, professional golf and high-level amateur golf tournaments, golfers are required to adhere to a competition of competition known colloquially as...
Under the Rules of Golf, a golfer is only allowed to carry 14 golf clubs. They can be any 14 golf clubs, but they can only carry 14 at a time. But what about...
If we're going to have an honest debate about golf ball distance and the effect it has on golf, then, as the Internet says, you've gotta hear both sides...
Golfers know they can't tee up their ball on a hole ahead of the tee markers from the tees they're playing. That's against the rules and comes with a severe...
With all the talk around golf ball distance, bifurcation and questioning if the modern golf ball travels too far (particularly for professionals and...
The battle lines are being drawn in a cold war of sorts that's forming in the golf equipment world.
After the USGA and R&A shared their 2017 golf ball distance...
A radical changes to the Rules of Golf will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2019, marking a significant change to a rulebook that, until recent years, had been seen...
If you've been reading the tea leaves for the last year or so, then you know golf's governing bodies have been looking hard at somehow scaling back how far the...
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