Innocuously helping out another golfer or breaking a Rule of Golf? Backstopping is a much debated topic among tour pros.

You don't have to dig very far into the Rules of Golf to find out that golfers who are competing can't agree to ignore any rules when they play. In fact, Rule 1.3b(1) says that if two or more players ...

Change has been afoot at the PGA Tour: new investment; new leadership; new schedule and field sizes. Next up: new rules. Six of them, effective immediately. On Tuesday, the Tour shared with its ...

Your ball is touching an out-of-bounds stake. Is it in bounds or OB? Part of your ball is resting on red paint marking a penalty area. Again, in or out? How about a ball that is partially on the green ...

Ask golfers how the Rules of Golf impact their round, and almost all will say that they add strokes to their score. It’s not an unreasonable perspective. We are conditioned, especially in sports, to ...

Golf is hard enough that introducing "stingy" flagsticks at a golf course seems just plain cruel. Granted, if you're putting, you should always pull the flagstick out as you gain virtually no ...

Almost every golfer has an opinion on The Rules of Golf, particularly the rules that they would want to change... It can seem ...

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we can’t believe how much happened this past week in golf. It’s mid-November and yet this may have been the busiest stretch of the year. You had the DP ...

There are tons of different golf rules out there, many of which can be confusing AF for any level of player, not just beginner golfers. From the most absurd, like the Water Bottle Rule, to the most ...

There are loads of golf rules out there, and quite a few have stirred up debate lately. Golf has no shortage of rules, many of which were created with elite competition in mind. While professionals ...