Losing a golf ball in the leaves is an enduring bane for golfers in the fall period, with excess build up of leaves, sticks ...

Introduced in 2019 but still underused by amateurs, this new rule could make provisionals – or worse, and the dreaded reload – a thing of the past.

It's officially golf's silly season in many spots around the country, and that usually means playing different types of golf ...

A common occurence on golf courses all over the world is for any player in the vicinity of a potentially lost ball to join in the search. It's one of the things that makes this sport great. Even ...

And it’s this that many players would understand as the “leaf rule”. It covers temporary accumulations of loose impediments ...

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Each fall, golfers in cooler climates invoke the "leaf rule" to lobby for a free drop when they can’t find their ball under a pile of foliage. Some use it as a concession to appease a frustrated ...