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The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced the launch of the USGA Moisture Meter. The easy-to-use tool provides golf course superintendents precise and consistent data regarding soil ...

Charles River Country Club, in Newton Centre, Mass., has been selected by the USGA as the host site of the 2031 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur. The 69th edition of the championship is scheduled for Sept.

Celebrating a game-changing career in golf course management, the United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced Rodney Lingle, CGCS, as the winner of the 2025 USGA Green Section Award.

The first updates to the World Handicap System™ (WHS™) went into effect in January 2024 as part of an ongoing review by the USGA and R&A of the Rules of Handicapping™ and the Course Rating System™.

Justin Hastings of the Cayman Islands and Peru’s Patrick Sparks co-lead at 8-under-par 136 at the midway point of the Latin America Amateur Championship at Pilar Golf Club. Hastings and Sparks sit one ...

Purpose of Rule: Rule 14 covers when and how you may mark the spot of your ball at rest and lift and clean your ball and how to put it back into play so that your ball is played from the right place.

When starting a hole, if you play a ball from outside the teeing areaTeeing Area: The area you must play from in starting the hole you are playing. The teeing area is a rectangle that is two ...

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 ...

Q. May I use a borrowed, abandoned or broken tee? A. Yes. The Rules only require that you use a conforming tee. It doesn’t matter where you get the tee from as long as it is conforming (see Definition ...

Purpose of Rule: Rule 17 is a specific Rule for penalty areas, which are bodies of water or other areas defined by the Committee where a ball is often lost or unable to be played. For one penalty ...

Purpose of Rule: Rule 5 covers how to play a round – such as where and when you may practise on the course before or during your round, when your round starts and ends and what happens when play has ...