Category: Etiquette and Pace of Play

You're standing over your ball on the fairway, itching to hit your approach shot. The green looks open. Your playing partners are ready to move. But if you look up and there's still a group walking...

It's easy to think of a golf cart as harmless. It doesn't leave the deep divots a mishit iron shot does, it doesn't ball-mark the green, and nobody's ever been penalized two strokes for driving one...

Walk onto any green on a weekend and you'll still see it: one player jogging ahead to pull the flag before their groupmates putt, then jogging back to drop it again for the next hole. It's a habit...

Ask any golfer what they'd change about their local course and "faster rounds" comes up almost every time. But there's a common misconception baked into that wish: that playing faster means swinging...

Somewhere on the course today, a golfer is going to shout "ready golf!" and someone new to the game is going to wonder what that actually means. It sounds informal, maybe even a little rule-breaking....

Nobody enjoys being the group that holds up the entire course. The tee sheet keeps stacking up behind you, the group ahead disappears into the distance, and a five-hour round starts to feel less like...