Viktor Hovland left the flagstick in the hole for his birdie putt on the 8th hole Saturday morning. What came next was brutal.

Let's start with an absolute—golf courses need water. This is especially true of green complexes, where grass is cut to such ...

Using the golf teams at California Polytechnic State University, plus a lot of physics, engineering and statistics, I methodically analyzed how a putted ball interacts with a flagstick.

At the par-4 15th, Patrick Cantlay's chip rattled off the flagstick and rolled 22 yards past where he originally hit it from.

Perhaps Tyrrell Hatton should have pulled the pin on the fourth hole, as his tee shot was denied an ace by an unjust flagstick.

Since its founding in 1920, the Green Section has led the USGA’s efforts to improve golf course playing conditions and sustainability through research, education, course consult ...