Luckily for Johnson, there was no penalty since the ball was not yet in play (Rule 6.2b). Thankfully, the Rules of Golf are fairly ... to find it or it's declared lost. The clock doesn't start ...

Purpose of Rule: Rule 18 covers taking relief under penalty of stroke and distance. When a ball is lost outside a penalty area or comes ... When one of those Rules applies, the player may either: ...

You saw it land in bounds and not in a penalty area ... Unfortunately, according to the Rules of Golf, a ball is not officially lost until a player, his or her caddie or partner searches for ...

You then hit another shot into the green and two-putt, thinking that with the penalty stroke for your lost ball, you just ...

If the drop zone is full of divots, is it legal to drop your ball behind it instead? Rules Guy has the answer.

A player may declare their ball to be unplayable at any time - except when it is in a water hazard. Even if another golfer considers it to be playable, the player is the judge. Sometimes it might be ...

At least once a summer, I try to address the rules of golf in this column, because it is part of the game and is so often disregarded by causal golfers. One that is a must to know is the ...

Lee Westwood was assessed a two-stroke penalty during the second round of LIV's curtain-raiser in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The Rules of Golf are tricky ... allowed to clean the ball when it is lifted except in four specific cases (see Rule 14.1c), but you only get to take advantage of that penalty-free cleaning ...

18.2 Ball Lost or Out of Bounds ... or her provisional ball when not allowed to do so under the Rules, and the provisional ball subsequently becomes the ball in play, the player must add one penalty ...

In order to save time, if a player thinks his ball might be lost or out of bounds, they may play a back-up or 'provisional ball'. This must be played after the fellow golfers have played their shots ...