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There are rules in golf about the maximum length a driver shaft (or any club shaft) can be. This doesn't impact most golfers, but it's important to know the...
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...
In 2021, the two senior women's majors will be played in consecutive weeks.
The USGA and LPGA jointly announced the 2021 US Senior Women's Open will go first...
The USGA is keeping two of their 2021 championships at the same venues where they were supposed to be held this year.
The 2021 US Senior Women's Am will take...
The US Open -- and presumably the US Women's Open, US Amateur and the full slate of USGA championships -- is returning to NBC Sports Group.
In shocking news...
The USGA has canceled the 2020 US Junior Amateur and the US Girls Junior Amateur, and they will not be rescheduled.
The US Girls Junior Amateur was scheduled...
The US Open makes a healthy profit the United States Golf Association every year. In fact, the US Open is the only USGA championship that turns a profit. That...
Golf courses are taking extra precautions so golfers can play safely during this extraordinary time. One of the measures is using modified cups to keep the...
Golf courses have been getting creative in trying to provide a safe environment for players to use the course. That means spacing out tee times, encouraging...
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...
For now, every USGA championship is still on as scheduled.
On Friday, the USGA issued a statement saying the governing body for golf in the United States and...
In honor of Mickey Wright, who recently passed away at the age of 85, the USGA is renaming the US Women's Open champion's medal after perhaps the greatest...
The USGA has announced updates to its family policy to offer more flexibility for players who have qualified for a USGA championship but not be able to compete...
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...
When golfers and golf fans watch the US Open or PGA Tour, many are shocked to see 500-yard or longer holes playing as par 4s for the national championship...
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...
The PGA Tour's new driver-testing regime, in which clubs players intend to use in competition are tested for legality, has already turned up a handful of...
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...
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...
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...
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