EDITOR'S NOTE—LPGA veteran Brooke Henderson has long putted with the flagstick in, but her short miss on Thursday in the second round of the Olympics, which clanged off the flagstick might make ...

who announced to GOLF.com last month that he intends to putt with the pin in. “It depends on the COR, the coefficient of restitution of the flagstick,” he said. “In U.S. Opens, I’ll take ...

The diameter of a standard flagstick is 0.5” (some pins taper to ¾” and even 1” above the hole). If you look at the space left for a golf ball, the 2.125” half-hole minus the 0.25” half ...

Using the golf teams at California Polytechnic State University, plus a lot of physics, engineering and statistics, I methodically analyzed how a putted ball interacts with a flagstick.

They've played 18 holes at the 80th U.S. Women's Open and the leaderboard shows six golfers are tied for the lead and 18 are ...

Instead, his golf ball clanged off the flagstick and settled about four feet away. RELATED: You will literally never guess Rory McIlroy's favorite Olympic sport But perhaps because of all those ...

On a 45-degree day in late December, Lou Stagner mentioned to his wife that he was headed to a golf course near their home outside Philadelphia. He’d be gone for several hours over the next few ...

There are standards that determine the best golf clubs. While each category of club—drivers, fairway woods and hybrids, irons, wedges and putters—has particular functions and qualities unique ...

Nick Taylor had a 4-under 68 that gave him a share of the lead with Ben Griffin at the Memorial in Dublin, Ohio.

After helping Bubba Watson and Scottie Scheffler each win two green jackets, Ted Scott caddies to a win away from Augusta ...