Because his or her actions are not reasonable in this situation, the player gets a penalty for a breach of Rule 8.1a (Improving the Conditions Affecting the Stroke). 12.2b(3)/1 – Player Is Allowed to ...

Purpose of Rule: Rule 12 is a specific Rule for bunkers, which are specially prepared areas intended to test your ability to play a ball from the sand. To make sure you confront this challenge, there ...

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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 ...

We’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to competitive rust. At last week’s season-opening event on the PGA Tour, Will Zalatoris and Cam Davis found themselves guilty of a ...