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Welcome to the 10th U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship hosted by Plainfield Country Club & Echo Lake Country Club. Please find the below links to help with your experience!
With its 125th U.S. Open Championship on the horizon, the USGA has teamed with Oakmont Country Club and the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association to invest in the area’s public golf courses and ...
Jay Sigel, arguably the greatest American amateur golfer in the post-World War II era, died on April 19 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 81. Sigel, a Berwyn, Pa., resident who spent his winters in ...
Purpose of Rule: Rule 4 covers the equipment that players may use during a round. Based on the principle that golf is a challenging game in which success should depend on the player’s judgment, skills ...
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This content was first published in Golf Journal, a quarterly print publication exclusively for USGA Members. To be among the first to receive Golf Journal and to learn how you can help make golf more ...
Purpose of Rule: Rule 14 covers when and how you may mark the spot of your ball at rest and lift and clean your ball and how to put it back into play so that your ball is played from the right place.
Net double bogey, and Net par. It is important that an accurate par be established for each hole on a golf course for both men and women, and these values should be printed alongside each hole on the ...
Purpose of Rule: Rule 8 covers a central principle of the game: “play the course as you find it.” When your ball comes to rest, you normally have to accept the conditions affecting the stroke and not ...
Purpose of Rule: Rule 5 covers how to play a round – such as where and when you may practise on the course before or during your round, when your round starts and ends and what happens when play has ...
Purpose of Rule: Rule 4 covers the equipment that you may use during your round. Based on the principle that golf is a challenging game in which success should depend on your judgment, skills and ...
Purpose of Rule: This Rule allows you to do things on the putting green that are normally not allowed off the putting green, such as being allowed to mark, lift, clean and replace your ball and to ...