If your ball lands on a cart path and the nearest point of relief is OB, what should you do? Rules Guy has the answer. The ...

For generations, golfers have debated relief options beside cart paths, argued over penalty-area procedures and thumbed ...

Golfers have always had rules questions, but the problem is that golfers have them in convenient places. Your ball moves after a squirrel investigates it. You take relief from a cart path and suddenly ...

Golf has never suffered from a lack of rules. Understanding them, however, has always been a different story. For generations ...

In the relative Stone Age of 2022, USGA rules expert Craig Winter was hanging out in the living room of his Washington State home with a friend of his wife’s. The acquaintance was playing around on ...

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 ...

Did you know the USGA Rules team fields nearly 20,000 questions a year from golfers via phone, email, and the USGA Rules of Golf mobile app? The “hotline” is free and open to anyone, and we allow ...

Whether it's measuring the teeing area or determining the size of a relief area when you have to drop or place a ball while applying a rule, you might think you have some latitude in terms of what ...

You probably know the Rules of Golf allows you to remove loose impediments near your ball or even on your line of play (Rule 15.1). You can do it pretty much any way you want provided that doing so ...