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 ...

If your playing partner hits a wrong ball but you're playing both match play and stroke play, how should you assess the ...

With the USGA celebrating 50 years of its membership program, its members reflect on the organization's wide impact in the ...

Not all golf scores are created equally. That’s why, in 2020, the United States Golf Association adopted a handicap rule called Playing Condition Calculation (PCC). Depending on how golfers perform on ...

Not every pro golfer who applies to regain amateur status zooms back to the amateur ranks. Here's how the process works.

At midday Sunday, Gene Riley found himself under a white tent at an elbow of a winding cart path stretching from the elevated clubhouse to the first tee at Cedar Creek Golf Course. The veteran rules ...

Should professional golfers be able to regain their amateur status? Here's what Brandon Holtz, the 2025 U.S. Mid-Amateur champ, says.