The Rules of Golf are crystal clear when it comes to holing out in stroke play competitions. Rule 3.3c, Failure to Hole Out, states: “A...

Here’s an interesting thought following the PGA Tour’s decision to ban green reading books as proposed from 1st January next year. How...

Good news for all PGA Tour fans: rounds should speed up by about 18 minutes next season following the Tour’s decision to rescind the...

Bet the USGA now wish they’d disqualified Phil Mickelson after he hit a moving ball on Shinnecock's 13th green during the third round of...

Well, we learned one thing from the 17th Solheim Cup: rules of golf officials working the match do carry stop watches. More to the point,...

The entire island of Ireland celebrated Shane Lowry’s Open Championship victory at Royal Portrush two years ago. Quite right too. He...

Amazing how we've taken the humble bunker rake for granted all these years. Other than wishing some golfers would take a crash course on...

Expect TV viewing figures for PGA Tour events to shoot up when the Player Advisory Council ratifies the banning of green reading books...

When Peter Dawson was chief executive of the R&A, he asked for a show of hands from the assembled press on whether we thought the time...

Betsy Rawls didn’t really win the 1957 U.S. Women’s Open. She won it by default. Jackie Pung was the actual champion. Pung lost it on a...

Moe Norman would have won quite a few tournaments if the Rules of Golf dictated just three clubs never mind 14. Or even 11. All Moe would...

What do Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama, Guan Tianlang and John Catlin have in common? They’re the only three players in the last eight...

The PGA of America makes history this week at Kiawah Island in the 103rd PGA Championship when it becomes the first major championship to...

There are times when it’s difficult to explain how great this game of golf is to those who don’t play it. What happened before the final...

Former European Tour Chief Referee John Paramor might not have had to hand out so many basic rulings during his long, illustrious career...

Here’s a radical idea: Maybe anyone who wants to become a member of a professional golf tour should have to pass a Rules of Golf test....

Remember the furore Sam Torrance (above) created when he began using the long putter? Traditionalists were up in arms when the Scotsman...

You have to feel for England’s Joe Long as he prepares to realise a lifelong dream of teeing it up in the Masters. Long isn’t even close...

Not that we really needed to be told today's tour professionals are slow, but there’s surely a problem when the caddie of one of the...

It’s debatable what was more impressive about Matt Jones’s Honda Classic victory: the way he handled the tough conditions that plagued...