The PGA Tour will begin testing drivers in the 2019-2020 season, taking a bigger step into equipment testing they've previously been reluctant to do.
In a...
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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...
Rory McIlroy was given a two-stroke penalty on Friday in the second round of the 2019 The Northern Trust. And then, less than two hours later, it was rescinded...
The USGA is changing its rules around exemptions for the winners of its marquee amateur events, the US Amateur and US Women's Amateur, to allow the champions...
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...
Amid a pace of play that saw nearly six-hour rounds for the final groups on Saturday, the USGA penalized Stanford amateur Andrea Lee a shot for slow play at...
Phil Mickelson doesn't have a whole lot of faith in the USGA and how they will present Pebble Beach Golf Links in next month's 2019 US Open. He laid that...
When I was a kid, every once in a while a box of cereal or a toy or a McDonald's Happy Meal would come with a special comic book. It'd be a collaboration...
On this episode, Ryan recaps the 2019 PGA Championship from Bethpage Black, with Brooks Koepka winning his fourth major championship. We look forward from...
Jennifer Kupcho and Maria Fassi made themselves a lot of new fans playing together in the final pairing of the final round of the inaugural Augusta National...
Stacy Lewis got some great news before Saturday's third round of the 2019 Hugel-Air Premia LA Open: She's been exempted into the 2019 US Women's Open after...
As we get ready for the 2019 US Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links in California, the USGA has already settled up future US Open venues and sites and dates...
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...
At last year's US Open, Patton Kizzire's absence in the field at Shinnecock Hills was considered glaring.
The tall Georgian had won twice on the 2017-18 PGA...
In 2005, Jason Gore found himself in the final group of the US Open at Pinehurst No. 2, playing alongside Retief Goosen, who was going for a remarkable third...
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...
The USGA is eliminating one of its largest exemptions for the US Women's Open in favor of one that could mean more international depth.
Starting in 2020, the...
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...
The era of Mike Davis as the USGA's lead setup man for the US Open is now over. Davis, who is the organization's CEO and executive director, is voluntarily...
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...
If you're a recreational golfer and play enough times on the golf course, you're going to hear someone referred to as a "scratch golfer." For whatever reason...
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...
The way the USGA picks the US Walker Cup and Curtis Cup teams -- the elite, country-based amateur team competitions for men and women -- has always been a bit...
John Daly withdrew from the 2018 US Senior Open on Monday, after the USGA denied the two-time major winner's request to use a cart at The Broadmoor in...
When golfers and golf fans watch the US Open, many are shocked to see 500-yard or longer holes playing as par 4s for the national championship. They can't...
On this episode of the podcast, Ryan Ballengee recaps the 2018 US Open from Shinnecock Hills, kicking things off with what seemed to set apart Brooks Koepka...
At the end of the second round of the US Open, a cut is made to reduce the field for the final two rounds. The US Open cut rule is determined is a little bit...
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