We’ve got an assignment for you: Check out these rules scenarios involving practice during a round. Can you identify which are penalties under the Rules of Golf—specifically Rule 5.5—and which are ...

Ask golfers how the Rules of Golf impact their round, and almost all will say that they add strokes to their score. It’s not an unreasonable perspective. We are conditioned, especially in sports, to ...

Ready for a challenge? Test your knowledge of the Rules of Golf by “playing” this par 5, where just about every unusual rules situation you can think of happens along the way. See if you can get to ...

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