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 ...

Under Rule 12.2b, you can do things such as lean on a club that touches the surfaces of the bunker while waiting to hit a ...

Major golf tournaments are individual stroke-play events, where every shot is counted over the course of a round. On the PGA Tour, golfers compete over 72 holes, and the winner is the player with the ...

The Rules of Golf are tricky! Thankfully, we’ve got the guru. Our Rules Guy knows the book front to back. Got a question? He’s got all the answers. Strange but true: I knocked an approach shot to 10 ...

Confused about Ryder Cup formats? Learn the difference between four-ball and foursomes for the matches at Bethpage Black.

Both four-ball and foursomes involve four players divided into teams of two, but the biggest difference between the formats is the number of balls in play. In four-ball, there are four balls in play, ...

Foursomes features the teams alternating their shots. In Four-ball, each of those pairs plays their own shot after they take them. The lowest score on each of those teams is counted and the lowest ...