As a superstitious golfer, I’m always changing things up after bad holes or bad rounds. I’ll sometimes switch golf balls but will mostly shuffle my ball markers and divot tools. I always keep a few of ...

What do you do if your flying divot ends up colliding with your ball and stopping it from rolling? Rules Guy has the answer. The post Rules Guy: My divot stopped a ball in motion. Is that a penalty?

Golfers love to practice. But have you ever wondered how the pattern of your divots on the practice range tee affects the golf course? With every swing of an iron, a divot of turf is usually removed.

It can sometimes seem that the Rules of Golf are out to get you and not devised to be fair or work at all in your favor (ball ...

It's one of the most brutal moments in golf: arriving to your golf ball to find that it has wound up in the middle of an old ...

Q: What is your opinion on taking divots with all iron shots? I seem to get the same distance whether I "pick" the ball or take a divot and tear up the fairway or tee box? Should I be taking divots ...

The 30 proposed changes to the Rules of Golf were revealed Wednesday, but one that didn’t make the cut was allowing relief for a ball that lands in a divot hole in the fairway. “We have no immediate ...

A number of years ago, I paid two men a thousand dollars to repair broken windows in my house. The men worked silently for a while. Then one of them said, “If you don’t mind my asking, how did all ...

GRAND FORKS — An array of starter clubs lined the putting green at King’s Walk Golf Course on a recent Tuesday. Each new golfer steps up to use Grand Forks Central graduate Jim Hackenberg’s latest ...

STUART — For more than 35 years, Kevin Compare has alternated between helping people’s golf game and helping them laugh. Sometimes, at the same time. The Stuart resident became a golf professional in ...

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The original Divot Derby trophy was in a back storage room and needed some dusting and plate attachment. As soon as Marty Stanovich, executive director for the First Tee of Northwest Florida, applied ...