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.
On Saturday, a little more than a week after returning from the PGA Level 3 Seminar in Port St. Lucie, Florida, a letter arrived in our mailbox from the PGA of America. “That’s odd,” I thought to myself, “since I didn’t send them anything.” It came on official PGA of America letterhead. It read: Dear
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The other day, I got an email from our Callaway Rep, Eric Strader. Generally, I try not to glean a person’s tone from text or email, but knowing Strader, he was running hot! It was about the ball. Here’s what he wrote: Good evening, Callaway Golf continues to be the innovation leader in the Golf
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