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What do I need to put on my scorecard?
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Steve Carroll
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What is Ready Golf and when can you use it?
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Steve Carroll
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How does countback work in golf?
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Steve Carroll
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Can I abandon my round if there is lightning?
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Steve Carroll
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Everything you need to know about what you can (and can’t) do with the pin
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Steve Carroll
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Is your golf ball on the wrong green? Here’s what you need to know
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained: Does the ‘honour’ still exist?
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Steve Carroll
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What can you do on the putting surface?
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Steve Carroll
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Can I check my heart rate during a round?
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Steve Carroll
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How to correctly drop a golf ball
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Steve Carroll
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Do I need to initial changes on a scorecard?
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Steve Carroll
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What is backstopping?
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What is backstopping in golf?
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My ball is in a crack in a washed out bunker – do I have to play it as it lies?
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Steve Carroll
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Is this the end of the road for green books?
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Steve Carroll
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What am I allowed to use to measure the wind?
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Steve Carroll
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My playing partner left with my scorecard – will I be disqualified?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf Explained with John Paramor: How do you deal with an embedded ball?
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Steve Carroll
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How much time can I spend clearing leaves off the green?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf Explained with John Paramor: What happens when you play the wrong ball?
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Steve Carroll
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Can I move sand from the line of my putt?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf Explained with John Paramor: What to do if your ball moves on the green
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Steve Carroll
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I played my ball from a penalty area but it didn’t come out – help!
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf Explained with John Paramor: How to find the nearest point of complete relief
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained: I’ve fluffed a bunker shot and hit the sand in anger – am I in trouble?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf Explained with John Paramor: How to take relief from a penalty area
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf Explained with John Paramor: What are your options for an unplayable lie?
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Steve Carroll
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I’ve hit my ball OB from a bunker – can I rake the sand?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf Explained with John Paramor: What happens if your golf ball is stuck in a tree?
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Steve Carroll
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Can I move a penalty area stake if it’s interfering with my shot?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained with John Paramor: My ball is resting against the flagstick – is it holed?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained: I’ve got too many clubs in the bag – how many shots will it cost?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained with John Paramor: My ball is in an animal hole – do I get free relief?
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Steve Carroll
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My putt has hit another ball on the green – is there a penalty?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained with John Paramor: Can you move loose impediments?
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Steve Carroll
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Why the controversial Solheim Cup ruling was right
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf Explained with John Paramor: When can you clean your golf ball?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf Explained with John Paramor: Dropping out of a divot
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Steve Carroll
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Can I practice putt or chip during a round?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained with John Paramor: I’ve hit my ball with a practice swing!
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Steve Carroll
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Is my ball out of bounds?
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Steve Carroll
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My ball is lost in GUR – what do I do?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained with John Paramor: Playing from the wrong tee
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Steve Carroll
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Can I hold a golf umbrella while putting?
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Steve Carroll
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Do I need to mark my ball when taking relief?
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Steve Carroll
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My ball has hit another player’s ball – what do we do?
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Steve Carroll
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I picked up my ball on the green without marking it – is there a penalty?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained: This bunker is full of water – can I have a free drop?
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Steve Carroll
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More slow play drama as LPGA star loses match in brutal fashion
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Alex Perry
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Rules of Golf explained: Can I measure the relief area for a drop with a headcover on?
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Steve Carroll
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The rule nearly every one of us has broken
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Steve Carroll
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I’ve whiffed – can I put the ball back on a tee?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained: My ball is hanging over the hole – what do I do?
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Steve Carroll
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Can you listen to music on the golf course?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained: My golf ball hit the foam insert and bounced out – does it count?
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Steve Carroll
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What goes on behind the scenes at the R&A’s Rules of Golf department?
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Steve Carroll
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My ball is under a pile of grass cuttings – do I get a free drop?
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Steve Carroll
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‘To say you can win a £300 voucher but not £30 in cash isn’t logical’: R&A rules chief explains amateur changes
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Steve Carroll
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Could you soon win cash prizes in club competitions? R&A planning huge shake-up of amateur rules
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Steve Carroll
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What are the proposed changes to the Rules of Amateur Status?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained: What are your options in a bunker when there are no rakes?
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Steve Carroll
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The three Rules of Golf you’re still getting wrong
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Steve Carroll
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Ever wanted to become a tournament referee? Now’s your chance
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Steve Carroll
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Do I need to tell my partners I’m lifting my ball?
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Steve Carroll
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When can I clean my golf ball?
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Steve Carroll
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Can I putt with my ball-marker still in place?
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Steve Carroll
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Help! I thought my opponent conceded my putt
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained: An animal has moved my ball – what happens now?
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Steve Carroll
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My ball landed in someone’s lunch – what do I do?
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Steve Carroll
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Lost balls and broken dreams: My eventful debut as a tournament rules official
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Steve Carroll
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I’ve lost my phone – can I search for it?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained: My ball’s embedded in the face of a bunker – can I get free relief?
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Steve Carroll
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A bird hit my club when taking a shot – does it count?
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Steve Carroll
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Rules of Golf explained: Can I switch hands to get free relief?
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Steve Carroll
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How should I announce playing a provisional ball?
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Steve Carroll
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Can I get relief from a sprinkler head on the line of my putt?
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Steve Carroll
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Can my caddie place and line up my ball on the green?
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Steve Carroll
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‘You don’t see that happen on the PGA Tour’: Rahm’s bizarre rules breach was lapse in concentration
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Alex Perry
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Rules of Golf explained: Our expert answers your questions
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Steve Carroll
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Can I play a provisional after I’ve started searching?
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Steve Carroll
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My run-ins with Seve and the time I caught a cheat
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Steve Carroll
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