After the last two contentious entries on local rules, this one should be less negative (at least that’s the plan). We’re onto rule i in...

There is no penalty for being a jackass.  We’ve all seen bad behavior on golf courses, even at the highest levels of competition.  Jordan...

Editor’s Note:  The thoughts and comments of the author are simply that…. A word of warning, the author holds a VERY dim view of the rule...

About once a year I get the chance to propose or eliminate rules in the REGL rulebook (either for the process of league play or for local...

My last blog entry was about rolling the ball in your own fairway – something that is not covered at all by the Rules of Golf.  We move...

We begin Week #4 of 2025.... Just finished the midpoint appraisals for all of my employees and I have NOT been in the mood to write...

Moving on to the third published local rule in the REGL rules: "League matches shall begin at the conclusion of the bugle calls from...

And here's paragraph b. direct from the 2024 edition of the REGL rulebook: "All male participants must play from the white tees and...

The first local rule for REGL is quite short: "League competition shall be under USGA stroke play rules, except as modified (Local Rules)....

Three weeks into the season - blog output.... zero! In my professional capacity I'm a supervisor of 19 government employees. April is...

The 2024 REGL Rules are up and on the website, and they've also been dispensed to all of the captains for play starting next week.  I’d...

I hope your offseason went better than mine in some respects. I was hoping to play in the nearly annual Pleasant Valley Invitational...

Who? No, not Who, it's the Smithereens. A band I grew up with who's leader has now given us his last song - Pat DiNinzio died sometime...

Heard another war story from league play last week from a couple of guys on another team. Seems as though they ran into a player on...

How could we play golf without equipment? Most sports rely on something besides our God-given parts, and golf is certainly one of those...

I’ve been round and round on this edition of the Rules Blog. “Finished” writing this entry about 6 weeks ago and I’ve been chewing on...

Welcome back! I thought about the year we had off, which also happened to be the year directly after a major rules rewrite for the USGA....

Here’s 1.3 right from the rule book: “You are expected to recognize when you have breached a Rule and to be honest in applying your own...

I still remember watching - glued to the screen like a mosquito embedded there with a well-aimed flick of a flyswatter. Singles matches...