Did you know the USGA Rules team fields nearly 20,000 questions a year from golfers via phone, email, and the USGA Rules of Golf mobile app? The “hotline” is free and open to anyone, and we allow ...

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 ...

Over the course of a year, Todd Stice estimates the USGA receives upwards of 20,000 rules questions, either via phone call, email or the Rules of Golf app. Many of them are fairly common according to ...

Sam Burns saw his hopes of winning the U.S. Open at Oakmont dashed last Sunday, after the PGA Tour star found himself in a soaked lie on the fairway on the par-four 15th ...

If you’ve ever sent a Rules question to the United States Golf Association, there’s a strong chance it landed on Jerry Lemieux’s desk. The 2026 Joe Dey Award winner has handled thousands of inquiries.

ORLANDO, Fla. – There comes a moment in every discussion when dialogue can go in one of two directions, and golf has reached that tipping point. Either the conversation can careen down an unproductive ...

If you’ve ever hit a perfect drive, only to find your ball sitting uncomfortably in a nasty lie, you know the frustration. It feels like an unfair punishment for doing everything right. And no one ...

The new Rules of Golf have been finalized, with four tweaks. Rolled out last year as a “modernization” to make the game easier to understand at all levels, golf’s governing bodies announced Monday ...