H….HHH….Local Rule H..... Another one I can’t completely come to grips with, and again, I apologize if this blog is full of negativity –...

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...

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...

The courtroom scenes in “A Few Good Men” are an instant draw for me. I surf by it on the tube, and I generally stop and stay glued until...

Practice is encouraged in golf. It’s a hard game and we have to keep our skills sharp. You think you find a key to your swing one week,...

Rule 2 is everything to do with defining a Golf Course – where you can play and where you can’t. In fact, section 2.1 of this rule goes...

I was out laying new floors in my son's home in Texas - no blog for last week. Before I jump back to a discussion of the USGA rule book,...

Let's be perfectly honest - I have a hard time with local rules. Rolling the ball in the fairway? Don't like it. Do I do it? Sure,...

I was sitting in for Captain Jimbo a couple of weeks ago in the annual captains meeting (having actually remembered to turn onto Maryland...

Apparently this one came up during this year's Captains Meeting. I was supposed to sub for our cap at this year's meeting, but forgot to...

Ruggles golf course planted a ton of trees since last season in these neat little rows spaced about 10-feet apart so some places look...

Aargh.... Four weeks to go and our team was in a solid 4th in the East. Then we got whooped on three consecutive nights - with a week...

I’d be surprised if 10 percent of the people that play in our league know anything about the guy who took Ruggles from a 9-hole to an...

And so it begins.... Your rule card and some other tidbits prior to the start of play. I don't know how these are going to be passed...