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Inside the Rulebook: Did You Get the Memo?

Dave Stewart, PGA Tour professional at Florida's Kissimmee Golf Club and rules expert, helps break down the ever-complicated golf rulebook in "Inside the Rulebook" for FanHouse. The game of golf is unlike any other. Players compete on a playing field covering hundreds of acres without always being under the watchful eyes...

Golf's Got Gallery of Busybodies Sitting in Their Living Rooms

Another golf season is upon us and all the Gladys Kravitzes of the world are about to spring out from their collective winter slumbers. Surely, you remember Gladys Kravitz, the nosy next-door neighbor from the sitcom "Bewitched," who always seemed to catch Samantha Stevens in the act of twitching her nose and producing...

Looking Back at the 2010 Golf Storylines, On and Off the Course

If golf 2010 reminded us of anything it was that seasons are often remembered not as much by what was accomplished as they are by the moments that made people pay attention. There are news stories and then there are newsmakers. Although easily confused, the two are as different as a hook and a slice. News is the result of...

Dustin Johnson Moving on From Bunker-Gate

Dustin Johnson's introduction to the frequent unfairness of golf came quickly, back when he was an early teen growing up in South Carolina and playing in a junior tournament. Johnson remembers owning a two-shot lead going to the final hole. He was in the middle of the fairway. His opponent was not. "He had blown it right...

Dustin Johnson Penalty Shows Golf Only Sport Playing by the Rules

If there is one thing I appreciate about golf, it is that the game is definitive. Its only lies are what it calls the areas where fallen balls come to rest. It doesn't reward a player whose ball stops at the edge of the cup by calling it good enough because it is "in the neighborhood." Its officials don't swallow any of...