In this video, Neil Tappin is joined by rules guru Jeremy Ellwood to look at some of the most surprising golf rules. For one ...

Think you know the Rules of Golf? Think again. From penalty areas and bunkers to provisional balls and OB boundaries, this ...

In terms of height, the sky's the limit—literally—as there are no restrictions. You might need a super tall flag on a hole ...

There are tons of different golf rules out there, many of which can be confusing AF for any level of player, not just beginner golfers. From the most absurd, like the Water Bottle Rule, to the most ...

There is a phrase in the Rules of Golf that is important to remember and apply when you can't see where your ball came to rest—it's "known or virtually certain." The phrase is the benchmark that must ...

Oh, man. It’s bad enough that you didn’t realize you just dropped closer to the hole after taking relief from a sprinkler head, but then you double-downed by fixing a raised divot on your line of play ...

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Golfers often swap out balls in the middle of the round, but not necessarily because they want to. Errant shots go AWOL, which forces new balls to be put into play. What happens, though, if you ...

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 ...