Under the Rules of Golf, if they hit the putt, you can call them out for violating Rule 14.7 (playing from the wrong place). It's a two-stroke penalty (stroke play) or loss of hole (match play).

Max Homa had his best round in two years on the PGA Tour at the John Deere Classic, placing himself firmly into contention at ...

When you set up to hit a driver, you're probably thinking about the middle of the fairway, your takeaway, your follow-through ...

To clarify, "natural forces" does not mean shading a golf ball to get the grass blades to fall. At the 2021 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Tony Finau "shaded" his golf ball on the edge of a cup ...

As you can see in the table, the wet golf ball with a straight ball flight traveled over five yards farther than the dry one (187.5 yds. vs. 182 yds.).

Instead, it lands, bounces once, maybe twice, and clumps of mud can start to attach to the sides of the golf ball. Or worse, that mud just splatters all over the ball’s surface.