It’s U.S. Open week, which means Dr. Robin Farran, one of the USGA’s top rules officials who also teaches Advanced Rules at the Golf Academy of America, is in Long Island for the 118th playing of the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. In this month’s Diary of a Rules Official, we’re beginning to get […]
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It’s summer in Tucson, which means it’s also time to saddle up and ride back out to Florida to attend what’s become an annual ritual: another PGA seminar. One of the coolest things about attending a PGA seminar is that PGA Education uses an independent travel agency called Omega World Travel to book your plane
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93-year-old Ben Bender made his first-ever hole-in-one in what was his final round of golf, saying “the Lord knew” it was his last round.
Perhaps Tiger Woods’ putting at last week’s Wells Fargo Championship wasn’t as terrible as everyone made it out to be. Could it be that the greens at Quail Hollow were just bad?
Kelly Kraft missed the cut at the RBC Heritage by one stroke after his tee shot hit a bird en route to the Par-3 14th hole, dropped into the water short of the green, and resulted in a double bogey. Shouldn’t that count as a birdie?