What’s new in the 2023 Rules of Golf?

The R&A and USGA have announced the first four-yearly review of the new laws of the game. Our rules expert distils the changes you need to be aware of...

Has it really been four years? Time has certainly flown since the R&A and USGA made the biggest changes to the laws of the game in a generation with the 2019 Rules of Golf.

But the modernisation never stops and now the two governing bodies have announced the results of the first regular update to the 'new' rules as they strive to make them easier to understand and apply....