The USGA has been working on changing some rules of the game in an effort to make it easier, or maybe faster to play, or maybe less confusing, or maybe they were just bored and wanted to screw around and confuse us. Well, it worked. At least many of us are pretty confused. But not […]
Golf is a backward game! In what other sport is the object to score as few points as possible? Take the word “par”. It’s what we strive for as amateurs, always trying to beat if we really want to stand out. “Par” means average. Therefore “under par”, literally, means “below average”. So we walk off […]