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Golf's Rally to Keep Fear Alive Is Working
For months now, we have been telling you to stock up on wedges this year because, starting in 2011, manufacturers and retailers will no longer be able to sell equipment that does not conform to the USGA's wedge standard which is now in place for professionals. Ok, so I did one post on it - and...
Palmer, Woods Talk of Support for Ball Rollback
What a firestorm that USGA ball test leak might have caused. First it led to Geoff Shackelford's reporting of participant anecdotes from Canada. We added some crucial details of the history of this and prior tests. Then, in consecutive days, legends of the sport were asked about the subject and...
When Spectating Becomes a Major Problem
Chambers Bay got the 2010 US Amateur practically sight unseen because of its stunning potential as a true American-style links golf course. Like Whistling Straits, it was molded with heavy machinery, imported dirt/sand, and terraformed into an environment very much different than its original...
Phil Mickelson: Rules Czar?
Phil doesn't make the rules, and maybe that's why he has found gripes with several of them. Mickelson exploited the USGA and PGA Tour settlements with Karsten Manufacturing to play wedges with non-compliant-but-approved-for-play grooves earlier in the year. His mockery/protest of the grooves...
Kevin Streelman Weighs in on Tour-Specific Equipment Standards
In his pre-The Barclays presser, Kevin Streelman was asked about his thoughts on the hypothetical possibility of establishing a different set of equipment guidelines for professionals to create bifurcation in the Rules of Golf. Streelman was kind of dodgy in his answer, but for him, it seems to...
The Amazing Pace: Slow Rounds Causing Penalties at US Amateur
Get ready for six hour rounds at the US Open in 2015. Chambers Bay is showing us this week in the US Amateur that the 7700 yard test is going to be an awfully long trek - and Phil Keoghan won't be waiting in the scoring trailer. Sean Martin reports from outside of Tacoma, Washington, that in the...
What Rule Got Juli Inkster Disqualified?
As perhaps further evidence that the Rules of Golf are more complicated than the self-contradictory Catholic Catechism, there is some confusion about the rule that got Juli Inkster disqualified on Saturday evening. The rule is 14-3. Here's the text of itfrom the USGA. 14-3. Artificial Devices,...
Juli Inkster Causes LPGA to Make Weighty DQ Decision
Thanks to reader Nothreeputt At 50 years old, any golfer has aches and pains during a round of golf. For many, the worst possible thing that can happen to them is a slow round. Joints and muscles stiffen up, and often cause a loss of momentum. In the second round of the Safeway Classic at Pumpkin...
The How and Why of Testing the Tournament Ball
A few weeks ago, it was quietly brought to light in the Canadian press that the USGA would be staging a small tournament-style outing for Canadian Tour players to test a conceptual "tournament ball" that would fly shorter than existing specs allow. The announcement perked only a few ears about the...
The Decider: Which Golf Rules Would You Change?
Golf has very few recognizable memes, but like Icing, it seems that it is open season on the USGA's Rules of Golf. In an ironic sense, it is the existence of local rules - not the standard rules - that cost Dustin Johnson a shot at the PGA Championship. Still, seems like a debate has begun about...
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