During the first round of the PGA European Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, David Howell teed off from in front of the tee markers on the 18th hole. Because Howell, 42, of England, made a ...

Work on your set-up, improve your ball striking, boost your hip turn, and take advantage of the teeing ground with Me and My Golf.

That’s thanks to Rule 6.2b(5) which deals with Teeing Area Rules. It says that the ball is not in play until a stroke is made. So, when your ball is in the teeing area for a hole, on a tee or ...

As the first groups worked around the front nine Thursday morning at TPC Sawgrass, they all seemed mostly unbothered by the hanging tree that was added to the visual of the teeing ground this year.

Two instances occur on the teeing ground. Sometimes, after removing a tee marker or markers while mowing the area, crewmembers might forget to replace the markers.

If it is not fenced off, look up the fairway to the teeing ground to see if the hole is being played. If it is, wait. Pro golfer Paige Spirinac swings for the hole with the wood from the fairway.

– On paper, the new tee at Augusta National’s 13th hole is 35 yards longer for this year’s Masters, but it may as well stretch all the way to Macon based on how the teeing ground has been ...

When a stroke is made from outside the teeing ground, the Rules require that the mistake be corrected before making a stroke on the next teeing ground, or in the case of the last hole of the round, ...