by Charlie Marks | Dec 6, 2018 | General Rules
Hey! A Rules change for all of you who play (or caddie) on the LPGA Tour! 😉 Under the 2018 Rules, a player taking her stance is allowed to have her caddie stand behind her to help her line up to the target. Under the 2019 Rules (Rule 10.2b(4)), once you begin taking a...
by Erik J. Barzeski | Dec 5, 2018 | General Rules
In 2018 and years prior, the USGA and R&A placed fairly tight controls on who could mark and lift a player’s ball on the putting green (and elsewhere on the course). The relevant portion of the 2018 rule reads as follows: A ball to be lifted under the Rules...
by Doug Howell | Dec 4, 2018 | General Rules
Technically, this rules change governs any time a ball is played from the putting green and strikes an unattended flagstick in the hole. There are occasions, for example, when a player has to chip from the putting green. But, most often, players are putting from the...
by Erik J. Barzeski | Dec 3, 2018 | General Rules
In 2018 and before, there was a running joke among Rules Officials who spent any time officiating higher level events about players searching for their balls. They’d tell these tales at Rules Seminars across the land, and they’d typically involve a...
by Charlie Marks | Dec 2, 2018 | General Rules
One of the most often asked questions of me is “My ball hit something. What should I do?” In the past the answer was often “It depends.” The “It depends” answer wasn’t too tough for me because as a referee, I deal with that problem often. But for the everyday player,...
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