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Penalty, pace of play torments Lee in Masters slide
Australian hope Min Woo Lee was penalised a shot and put on the clock for slow play in a five-over, third round 77 that dropped him out of Masters contention.
13 Apr 2025
The Thing About Golf: #134 David Rickman
We have a special treat for the true rules nerds of the game among you, with our latest guest non other than recently retired R&A rules guru David Rickman.
13 Feb 2025
Cleary: if bunkers are hazards, why do we rake them?
The venerable game of golf, according to the noble Scottish weirdos and beardies and old-money dandies who first decided the sandy dunes “linking” the arable land and the sea could be used to to whack feather-filled leather balls about the place and thus fill in the new thing called "leisure time", was never meant to be fair.
24 Jun 2024
The Thing About Golf Podcast #106 – Andrew Langford-Jones
Few in Australian golf have seen as much of the game as Andrew Langford-Jones.
8 Nov 2023
R&A and USGA further limit use of green-reading materials
Golf’s governing bodies have made available a Model Local Rule (MLR) to further limit the use of Green-Reading Materials.
2 Dec 2021
Does this deserve a free drop?
It is a debate that flares every now and then ... should a player be able to get relief from a divot? Here are two sides of the debate for you to consider.
19 Oct 2021
US WOMEN’S OPEN: Lang triumphs amid more rules controversy
Yet another rules controversy marred an otherwise high-voltage finish at the 71st US Women’s Open in California.
11 Jul 2016
Stuck in the wrong end
Reactions to the effective ban of the long putter expose a deep problem in golf.
23 May 2013
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