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Todd Morris'

RULES OF GOLF BLOG

Starting and Stopping - Rule the Fifth

In the past few weeks we’ve talked about the basic structure of the game of golf, the equipment, the course and competitions. Hopefully I...

Rule 3.3 - Stroke Play

I think we’ve emphasized this in the last two entries, but we play stroke play rules in REGL even though we combine elements of stroke...

Rule 3.2 - Match Play for Dummies

I’m not going to spend too much time talking about match play (all right, as I look at the finished blog entry this did run a little...

Rule 3 - Types of Competitive Golf

Rule 3 is all about competitive golf and how committees can run a competitive golf event. It’s pretty dry stuff, really, but there are...

My kingdom for a rake

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,...

Those damn floating donuts!

I’m taking a week off from working through the USGA rule book to deal with the latest “hot-button” issue raised by our league...

Golf and COVID-19

These are very strange times. I never thought I'd be combining golf with medicine, but here we are. In case you live under a rock, we're...

Bad Luck is part of the game...

My teammates at one point or another have put themselves in a position during a golf match in which I have to give them some bad news. ...

The revised blog on Blinds!

Editor's note: The old Blind blog post contained inaccurate information regarding the double blind - I'm modifying my original post to...

Two sets of rules

Once again I find myself back on the soap box. I get irritated, but maybe it's just temporary insanity. There's an undercurrent of...

Hit a Snag

I've talked quite a bit about the new "relaxed" rules for golf, and I've also talked about some special places on the course where the...

Dreaming that impossible dream

Cervantes' Don Quixote occupies a special place in my hero lexicon. You have to love someone who dreams the impossible and has enough...

Huh.... all that for nothing....

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,...

Swing and a miss....

I spent much more time on the baseball diamond in my youth than I ever did on a golf course. In baseball, it's a rare event that you...

Time the Avenger

The 2019 rule book is intended to make the game of golf easier and encourages a faster pace of play. There's probably one obvious timing...

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