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The USGA and the R&A decide whether a club is conforming or non-conforming. In competition, if you make a stroke with a ...

Most golfers associate Rule 18.1 — the stroke-and-distance rule — with a familiar sinking feeling: a tee shot or approach sailing into oblivion. Reload, take your penalty and move on, muttering to ...

The Royal & Ancient and U.S. Golf Association announced a rules change Tuesday that will reduce the size and shape of grooves in most clubs in 2010, the first time equipment has been scaled back in ...

The United States Golf Association(USGA), working with The R&A, sets the equipment standards that define what players can use in competition. At elite events that adopt the Model Local Rule, a driver ...

On the day after Webb Simpson lost the money title, the rule that caused him to finish second has been changed. Rule 18-2b, concerning the ball moving after address, has been amended by both the R&A ...

Below is the full statement from the USGA pertaining to the adoption of Rule 14-1b, which will ban anchored strokes as of January 1, 2016 (Click here for a video explanation of the rule): ‘Last ...