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After one of 2025’s biggest rules controversies, the USGA and the R&A made an update to its Model Local Rules.

Although it has been in effect for five years now, there is an option for golfers who hit a ball out of bounds or lose their ball altogether that stills seems to cause some uneasiness out on the golf ...

New additions will normally be updated on a quarterly basis each January, April, July, and October and the next quarterly update will be in early April 2026. - If a sprinkler head is popped up, the ...