As golf becomes a more relaxed and accessible sport, I’ve noticed that some of the traditional etiquettes that once helped ...

The most-read rules question of 2025 involved a relatively mundane topic: Is it legal to stand directly behind someone when ...

In the photo above, the lie is so preposterous, it looks like a prank. It isn’t. It actually occurred in a recent tournament in which a friend of the Etiquetteist was competing. Talk about bad luck.

Ranked Nos. 1, 4 and 14, respectively, in the Official World Golf Ranking, Scottie Scheffler, Collin Morikawa and Viktor Hovland know the ins-and-outs of golf’s rules and protocols better than most.

Veteran golf caddies share the most important unwritten golf rules for all players. Key advice: Avoid unwanted commentary, don't crowd lost ball searches, respect the course. Maintain pace-of-play by ...

Jim Corbett is the last guy in need of any prodding over pace of play on a golf course, making him the first person you would want to follow up the fairway. An Edmonds man with an easy manner and a ...

Phil Mickelson calls it a "huge problem" in golf, an unhappy consequence of the Covid boom. Overcrowded tee sheets? Grinding pace of play? Not exactly. In a recent post on X, the six-time major ...