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LIV Golf has announced that several rule changes are being planned. The league announced it is collaborating with golf’s traditional governing bodies, the USGA and The R&A, to overhaul its rules. This ...

The governing bodies of golf are asking manufacturers and stakeholders whether a staggered approach or single date is better ...

After one of 2025's biggest rules controversies, the USGA and the R&A made an update to its Model Local Rules. The post After one of 2025's biggest rules controversies, USGA, R&A make update appeared ...

A few years ago, the USGA set out on a mission to simplify and soften some of the unusual and harsh rules involved in the game of golf. As the sport’s ruling body, the organization was able to ...

Over the course of a year, Todd Stice estimates the USGA receives upwards of 20,000 rules questions, either via phone call, email or the Rules of Golf app. Many of them are fairly common according to ...

Call it the Paul Mitzel update. Or the Akshay Bhatia one. Or the Korn Ferry sixsome update. Any of those could work. Each refers to incidents in which a player or the player's caddie claimed to have ...