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- The year’s most-read rules question involved where to stand when someone’s putting
- How this surprising rule can help you drain more putts
- The simple ball-drop rule not every golfer knows
- Rules Guy: How does a Local Rule become a universal rule?
- Rules Guy: Can you test out a potential ricochet shot before actually hitting it?
- Rules Guy: Is there a rule against playing music on the course?
- ‘Perfectly legal’: Major champ’s clever use of new rule leads to watery birdie
- Why Rory McIlroy couldn’t take relief from banana-peel nightmare
- Rules Guy: My divot stopped a ball in motion. Is that a penalty?
- Rules Guy: Is batting away range balls on the course considered practice?
- The golf rule you might be breaking — without even knowing it
- Rules Guy: Is it a penalty to pick up an unmarked ball to avoid a collision?
- Rules Guy: A long bomber’s ball hit the flagstick we’d removed from the hole. What now?
- Rules Guy: I watched a dog pick up my ball. What now?
- Rules Guy: Is it legal to putt while puffing a cigar?
- Rules Guy: My opponent putts with his mark to the side of his ball. Is that legal?
- How pro golfers actually regain amateur status, explained by an expert
- Rules Guy: How should a wrong-ball penalty be assessed when playing both match and stroke play?
- Should you get free relief from absurd lies? The Etiquetteist weighs in
- Rules Guy: A homeowner tossed my wayward ball back to me. What now?
- Tournament leader faces rare bunker ruling at Sanderson Farms Championship
- Rules Guy: Can ‘volcano’ cups be fixed without penalty?
- Four-balls vs. foursomes: What’s the difference in the Ryder Cup formats?
- Rules Guy: With preferred lies, can you leave your club-length marker on the ground while you hit?
- Rules Guy: Can you remove a penalty-area stake if it’s in your way?
- Rules Guy: My playing partner’s ball collided with mine before I could mark. Now what?
- What are Local Rules, and why do they exist?
- Rules Guy: I hit my provisional ball to gimme-length. Can I choose to ignore my original wayward shot?
- Rules Guy: How do I know if a Local Rule is in effect at my course?
- Rules Guy: What are the legal limits when removing loose impediments?
- Hit a drive out of bounds? This rule lets you drop in the fairway
- Rules Guy: What do you do when a teebox is missing one of its tee markers?
- Rules Guy: Is it legal for another player to stand directly behind me while I putt?
- Rules Guy: Who goes first when 2 balls collide and must be played from the same spot?
- This well-meaning golf rule has pros sweating cheating claims
- Rules Guy: A mid-round rain delay gave my formerly errant shot a lucky break. Was it valid?
- Rules Guy: When parts of the cart path are marked as a penalty area, can you still take free relief?
- Rules Guy: My opponent conceded my putt — then it dropped in the hole! What now?
- How many golfers actually follow every rule? We asked 10,000 of them
- Rules Guy: A gust of wind blew my ball off the green. Can I replace it?
- Rules Guy: Is a ball considered holed if another ball knocks it in?
- Can you take free relief from a fence if you’re standing on a cart path?
- How to use the Rules of Golf to your advantage in 7 scenarios
- Rules Guy: Can you take free swing relief from a ball washer?
- This genius use of stroke-and-distance rule has been viewed 2.4 million times
- Rules Guy: My ball rolled 100 yards backward on a cart path. Can I replace it where it landed?
- Rules Guy: I hit a ball that was sliced in half by a mower. What now?
- Foursomes vs. four-ball: What’s the difference?
- Rules Guy: Is it against the rules to use a weighted club?
- Rules Guy: My ball landed in a water hazard .. on an alligator. What now ?!