The Rollback: What the R&A and USGA Announced in December 2023
The revised testing standard for conforming balls, effective for elite play from January 2028 and the wider game from 2030, is the most significant equipment change since grooves. The piece covers the announcement, the phased timeline, and what a shorter ball does to a game played on ground that has always been meant to run.
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The Distance Numbers: What the R&A and USGA Have Actually Published
The driving-distance data the R&A and USGA have released annually since 2003 is the documented record behind the rollback decision. The piece reads…
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One Handicap System, Six Governing Bodies, and What Changed in 2020
The World Handicap System unified six separate national systems in 2020 under a single calculation method administered by the R&A, USGA and four…
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