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Even in a match between old friends, things can get chippy with money on the line. A recent dust-up at a Northeast country ...
In this video, Neil Tappin is joined by Golf Monthly's Rules Guru Jezz Ellwood to discuss the 6 Rules Most Golfers Don't Know ...
The modernized Rules of Golf got into effect Jan. 1, 2019, and there are lots of changes that will benefit everyday golfers. Here are nine of the biggest ...
Is a player allowed to stand directly behind another to help him figure out his line? Rules Guy has the answer.
Resident Rules of Golf expert Fergus Bisset joins Golf Monthly editor Neil Tappin to discuss the situations where you can practice on the golf course and perhaps more importantly, where you can't ...
Modernizing Golf's Rules: FAQsBackground Questions 1. What was the motivation to modernize the Rules of Golf? The Rules of Golf are normally revised in a regular four-year cycle that allows us to ...
While golf has been played for more than 600 years, the earliest known written rules for the game date from 1744. This early code of “Articles & Laws in Playing at Golf” (known today as the “13 ...
Many of golf’s other rules—in a book that now runs to two hundred and forty pages—are, in effect, exceptions to it. Several of the 2019 changes were made in the hope of speeding up what has ...
It all seems like a million years ago. That may be a testament to just how much we’ve talked about the Rules of Golf since; they quite literally ruled golf in 2019, for better and worse.
The vast majority of the golf that I play during a typical year is on destination travel. I rarely get a chance to do a full warm-up, I’m seeing the course for the first time and I’m trying to ...