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 ...

The Rules of Golf include 90 or so "Model Local Rules" authorized for use as needed. Here's what that means. The post What ...

Golf tournament rules officials have been known to describe their jobs as hours of boredom interrupted by moments of sheer terror. Luckily, those moments don’t last ...

Golf now has a modern set of rules for the Royal & Ancient game, an extensive overhaul that took six years and is aimed at making the rules easier to understand. The R&A and USGA announced the final ...

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y., June 16 -- -- The U.S. Golf Association is considering a change in its rules that would allow top amateur players such as 14-year-old Michelle Wie to accept expense money from ...

In all fairness to the USGA and R&A, a major revision to the Rules of Golf was already in the works when the U.S. Open came to Oakmont Country Club in 2016. Still, it’s somewhat amusing to think that ...

In the wake of the USGA releasing its rules changes for 2016, GOLF's Cameron Morfit lays out the golf reforms he'd like to see instituted.