Golf is built on precision, patience, and a shared responsibility for the course and the people playing it. The game evolved ...
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 ...
Golf etiquette is a moving target. For decades, there was a right way and a wrong way to conduct yourself on a golf course, and the game didn't leave much room for ambiguity. But there's a lot about ...
What constitutes good — or bad — golfer behavior? The answer is often a matter of opinion, and we want yours. The questions in the survey below cover a range of etiquette topics. Answering them will ...
Golf etiquette—or any etiquette for that matter—is inherently subjective. What if we stripped away the human biases and had a (supposed) neutral third party analyze our game’s pressing questions?
No one teaches you golf etiquette. It’s just something that’s informally passed down from golfer to golfer, generation after generation, like family histories or the legend of Bigfoot. Etiquette is a ...
I have been thinking a lot about golf this year, and not just because I didn’t play at all during 2020. Golf is such a wonderful game, for a variety of reasons that would fill a half-dozen columns. No ...
In an affront to etiquette-abiding golfers everywhere, President Donald Trump was caught on video last week driving a golf cart across a green at his course in Bedminster, N.J. That was bad (but not ...
Golf is a game of unwritten rules. When a player takes a divot out of the fairway, that divot should be replaced. When one is about to take a shot, other players should be silent. And when players ...