For decades, the green jackets of Augusta National Golf Club have played defense with design, tweaking their course to gird against the modern game. They have pulled back tees. They have tightened ...

Whether a golf ball is sitting in tall grass, pine straw, leaves or some other form of underbrush, you have to be careful when you address the ball or you might risk accidentally causing it to move.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Does Augusta National Golf Club, home to the Masters and a massive financial repository, have a financial limit? The answer is yes. Chairman Fred Ridley of Augusta National Golf Club ...

On Wednesday, USGA CEO Mike Whan and the governing bodies released a statement on golf's ball rollback. Bruce Bennett / Getty Images SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Two weeks ago, before the Memorial Tournament, ...

Golf's ruling bodies are changing the equipment testing to make sure the golf ball goes shorter for everyone from Tiger Woods to the amateur who plays public courses on the weekend. The USGA and R&A ...

What if the proposed ball rollback doesn’t actually roll back performance among elite golfers? Sasho MacKenzie, among golf’s very short list of leading biomechanists, posed the question Monday to a ...

As part of our examination of how a rolled-back golf ball will affect golfers, we had several players of differing abilities test these rollback balls. That includes a faster swinging amateur, a ...