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The United States Golf Association(USGA), working with The R&A, sets the equipment standards that define what players can use ...

The United States Golf Association(USGA) governs the sport across the country and sets standards designed to keep the game ...

As the governing authorities for the Rules of Golf, the United States Golf Association (“USGA”) and R&A Rules Limited (“The R&A”) issued a ‘Joint Statement of Principles’ on the rules concerning golf ...

Golf now has a modern set of rules for the Royal & Ancient game, an extensive overhaul that took six years and is aimed at making the rules easier to understand. The R&A and USGA announced the final ...

Golf tournament rules officials have been known to describe their jobs as hours of boredom interrupted by moments of sheer terror. Luckily, those moments don’t last ...

PINEHURST, N.C. — Spend time inside the USGA Rules Office at the 2024 U.S. Open and the most surprising thing you’ll encounter just might be how quiet the place is during most of the 16-plus working ...

In all fairness to the USGA and R&A, a major revision to the Rules of Golf was already in the works when the U.S. Open came to Oakmont Country Club in 2016. Still, it’s somewhat amusing to think that ...