Two golf governing bodies – the LPGA and the USGA – announced new guidelines Wednesday requiring golfers to be female at birth or to have transitioned pre-puberty to be eligible to compete in women’s ...

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Even though their two biggest events are scheduled for June, USGA officials are bracing for impact from COVID-19 following the latest guidelines issued by the Center for Disease Control. Sunday the ...

As part of its latest additional clarifications to the Rules of Golf, the USGA released new guidance on Model Local Rule G-6, which prohibits the use of motorized transportation. MLR G-6 states: ...

The United States Golf Association has announced the launch of the official application for the 2010-2011 editions of “The Rules of Golf,” “Decisions on The Rules of Golf” and “Rules of Amateur Status ...

The LPGA and USGA updated their gender policies for competition eligibility, allowing only athletes assigned female at birth or assigned male at birth who did not undergo male puberty to compete in ...

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 ...

The USGA helps write the Rules of Golf. But that’s not the only publication to its credit. On Thursday, the governing body released another deeply researched book, and while it won’t likely make The ...

A few years ago, the USGA set out on a mission to simplify and soften some of the unusual and harsh rules involved in the game of golf. As the sport’s ruling body, the organization was able to ...

Call it the Paul Mitzel update. Or the Akshay Bhatia one. Or the Korn Ferry sixsome update. Any of those could work. Each refers to incidents in which a player or the player's caddie claimed to have ...