The PGA Championship at Bellerive Golf Course is less than two weeks away, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Dr. Robin Farran, one of the USGA’s top rules officials who also teaches Advanced Rules at the Golf Academy of America, is in St. Louis just to lend a hand. In this month’s Diary of a Rules […]
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With Tiger Woods in the field and in contention at the Open Championship Sunday, ratings were up 38% year-over-year. The guy is the needle!
Dr. Robin Farran teaches Advanced Rules at the Golf Academy of America and is widely regarded as one of the USGA’s top rules officials. He’s very well-connected in the Rules community. On an almost-weekly basis, Dr. Farran emails out various Rules scenarios, a segment I’ve reprised on my website in Diary of a USGA Rules
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Phil Mickelson just can’t stop breaking the Rules! Mickelson called a two-stroke penalty on himself for improving his line of play after tamping down fescue grass with his foot in front of the 7th tee at A Military Tribute at the Greenbrier.
Francesco Molinari’s decision not to play the French Open in Paris proved to be a wise one. His victory at the Quicken Loans National is his first-ever on U.S. soil.