GolfMagic has teamed up with England Golf's Rules of Golf Manager Sam Barker-Sabido to answer 11 of your most common golf rules questions.

If you’ve ever sent a Rules question to the United States Golf Association, there’s a strong chance it landed on Jerry Lemieux’s desk. The 2026 Joe Dey Award winner has handled thousands of inquiries.

What do you do if your ball embeds in a bunker lip? Can you take free relief, or must you play it as it lies? Rules Guy has the answer. The post Rules Guy: My ball embedded in a bunker lip. Can I take ...

Over the course of a year, Todd Stice estimates the USGA receives upwards of 20,000 rules questions, either via phone call, email or the Rules of Golf app. Many of them are fairly common according to ...

The Rules of Golf are tricky! Thankfully, we’ve got the guru. Our Rules Guy knows the book front to back. Got a question? He’s got all the answers. At a PGA Tour event, I saw a pro with a lie too ...

At the PGA Show last week, I moderated a panel at Open Forum, which is an ultra-nerdy conference where teachers and other golf nerds go to bicker about the latest golf information around. The panel I ...

Ask golfers how the Rules of Golf impact their round, and almost all will say that they add strokes to their score. It’s not an unreasonable perspective. We are conditioned, especially in sports, to ...

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Golf equipment rules can get complicated but when it comes to golf technology, there is one main theme that you should ...