Explore the history and contributions of past USGA Presidents who have shaped the United States Golf Association.

Since its founding in 1920, the Green Section has led the USGA’s efforts to improve golf course playing conditions and sustainability through research, education, course consulting, technology tools ...

A player is allowed to keep using and/or to repair any club damaged during the round, no matter what the damage and even if the player damaged it in anger. A player is not allowed to replace a damaged ...

Scoring, articles, photos, videos and all content related to the 2022 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur Championship, conducted by the USGA at Fiddlesticks C.C. in Fort Myers, Fla., Sept. 17-22.

The word 'golf' is not an acronym for anything. Rather, it derives linguistically from the Dutch word 'kolf' or 'kolve,' meaning quite simply 'club.' In the Scottish dialect of the late 14th or early ...

Purpose of Rule: Rule 7 allows the player to take reasonable actions to fairly search for his or her ball in play after each stroke. But the player still must be careful, as a penalty will apply if ...

Q. I did not play a hole. What score to do I post? A. For a score to be acceptable for handicap purposes, at least 9 holes that have a 9-hole Course Rating™ and Slope Rating™ must be played. If ...

Under the Rules of Handicapping, if a score produces a Score Differential™ that is 7.0 strokes or better than the player's Handicap Index® at the time the round was played, it is considered ...

The total land area devoted to golf in the U.S. is relatively small, but courses can offer substantial environmental benefits – especially in developed areas where green space is increasingly limited.

“It’s not enough to simply love this game and celebrate its current growth. We’ve got to respect the game enough to truly care about how we leave it for the generations that will follow us. We all ...

Purpose of Rule: Rule 14 covers when and how the player may mark the spot of a ball at rest and lift and clean the ball and how to put a ball back into play so that the ball is played from the right ...

The USGA Library collection is the world's largest and most significant related to golf history, containing more than 100,000 individual items in more than 25 languages documenting golf's development ...