The Rules of Golf explains that because there was no intervening event between dropping in the wrong place and then tapping down the divot, the player gets only one general penalty of two strokes.

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There are plenty of changes on LIV as the golf league will begin its fourth season Thursday. One change, however, is quite a ...

Fitzpatrick did just that, making bogey on the eighth hole and double bogey on the 10th en route to shooting a two-under 70 (his best score of the week), finishing T-28 in the event but failing to ...

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy's TGL match on Monday saw the first appearance of a unique rule for the simulator league.

many facilities will play what are commonly referred to as “winter rules,” and which are known in the Rules of Golf as Preferred Lies. This is covered by Model Local Rule E-3. So how does it work?

A LITTLE-KNOWN golf rule has been tweaked and it could have changed who won the Masters. Roberto De Vicenzo birdied on the 17th hole at Augusta in 1968 - only for his playing partner Tommy ...

Neil Tappin is joined by rules guru Jeremy Ellwood to look at some of the simple rules related mistakes golfers are making. They offer 5 rules penalties every golfer needs to avoid covering what ...