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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Rickie Fowler was the latest PGA Tour player this week to make clear—strongly—that he is not in favor of a rolled back golf ball. The "Model Local Rule" proposed by the USGA and R&A in March would see ...

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 ...

As the golf community continues to process the USGA and the R&A’s proposal to roll back the ball for elite golfers, it seems as though those top-level players—most notably Justin Thomas and LIV Golf’s ...

The USGA and R&A announced Tuesday a proposed model local rule that would give elite competition organizers the option to use golf balls tested under modified launch conditions, a major effort to roll ...