Ask golfers how the Rules of Golf impact their round, and almost all will say that they add strokes to their score. It’s not an unreasonable perspective. We are conditioned, especially in sports, to ...

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The walk-up, sometimes a sprint, has become iconic. When playing a casual round of golf, it's become somewhat of a challenge — approaching a ball, club in hands, and attempting a hockey-like slap-shot ...

Judy Bell, the first female president of the U.S. Golf Association, died Monday. She was 89. Bell entered hospice care in Aug ...

Or perhaps, “the group that writes the rules I sometimes wish I didn’t have to follow.” All of those are true, but did you know the USGA is also a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that invests all of its revenue ...