We complain about poor etiquette, pace of play, and ignorance of the rules. Could we solve it by demanding golfers pass an ...

Jim Corbett is the last guy in need of any prodding over pace of play on a golf course, making him the first person you would want to follow up the fairway. An Edmonds man with an easy manner and a ...

Techno-alarmists keep insisting that robots are going to make us all redundant. Sounds scary. But The Etiquetteist isn’t worried about his job. Smart as they may be, machines lack emotional ...

Phil Mickelson calls it a "huge problem" in golf, an unhappy consequence of the Covid boom. Overcrowded tee sheets? Grinding pace of play? Not exactly. In a recent post on X, the six-time major ...

Ranked Nos. 1, 4 and 14, respectively, in the Official World Golf Ranking, Scottie Scheffler, Collin Morikawa and Viktor Hovland know the ins-and-outs of golf’s rules and protocols better than most.

The most-read rules question of 2025 involved a relatively mundane topic: Is it legal to stand directly behind someone when ...