An Australian golf site for Australian Golfers
A pro golfer has been unfairly criticised for calling out a rules violation. File this one under pros breaking the rules of golf they never knew about.
If you’re not across the rules controversy that saw two LPGA players penalized two strokes for giving advice then the summary is below.
Read more
Mulligans aren’t officially part of the rules of golf. Or so we thought.
Sweden’s Jesper Parnevik was involved in a very strange situation during the final round of the Champions Tour SAS Championship over the weekend.
Faced with a short putt for bogey, Parnevik’s putt horse-shoed around the hole and hit his foot.
Read more
In case you missed it Paul Casey escaped a penalty after his golf ball rolled over a bug on the green during the European Tour’s Porsche European Open in Germany.
Check out the video below:
One of the weirder golfing rules… 🐛@Paul_Casey #PEO2019 pic.twitter.com/v0gmmDNJk8
— The European Tour (@EuropeanTour) September 6, 2019
“I putted the ball, when I looked up, the ball was going in the hole, just crept in, left edge,” Casey said in the video.
Read more
Sometimes golfers use the rules to their advantage, and sometimes it may appear that they’re taking it too far.
Matt Kuchar has had a rough year after being criticised for not paying his caddie enough money, trying to get a free drop and now for breaking the spirit of the game of golf.
Read more
David Blake from Golf Australia explains the correct procedure on what you need to do if you find you need to move your golf ball in a bunker because of interference with another golf ball.
And if you missed it, here is David explaining what you need to do if your golf ball hits a tree and finishes back behind you on the tee.
Read more
The rules of golf around the teeing ground changed at the start of the year, and this is one alteration that we missed.
It turns out that if your golf ball ends up behind where you just played from, you get to tee it up again and your playing two.
Read more
Rickie Fowler has won the Waste Management Phoenix Open after overcoming an unlucky triple-bogey along the way.
Rickie Fowler was cruising to victory during the wet, final round at the Waste Management Phoenix Open when things got even wetter for him at the par-4 11th hole at TPC Scottsdale.
Read more
It’s the third round of the Dubai Desert Classic and Lucas Herbert is tied for the lead. He’s playing in the final group with Bryson DeChambeau and Ernie Els is in the group in front.
by Scott Warren
Fourteen months earlier, he was ranked 708th in the world.
Read more
Rules officials played hard-ball in Dubai as Haotong Li was handed a two-stroke penalty for his caddy standing on the line of his putt.
Just moments before American Bryson DeChambeau tapped in to win the Dubai Desert Classic on the European Tour, China’s Haotong Li lined up a birdie putt.
Read more
The new rules of golf say you must drop the golf ball from knee height, but it does look a little absurd.
When the R&A and USGA announced the changes to the rules of golf, we must admit we didn’t really think that this one would be an issue.
Read more