After one of 2025’s biggest rules controversies, the USGA and the R&A made an update to its Model Local Rules.

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While golf has been played for more than 600 years, the earliest known written rules for the game date from 1744. This early code of “Articles & Laws in Playing at Golf” (known today as the “13 ...