The Coronavirus pandemic has hit a giant pause button on fans being able to watch golf on TV, and in some cases, even kept people off courses. But while we hunker down and hope for a speedy return to normalcy, we can also use this time as an opportunity to learn more about the game we love. Here’s our latest installment of “Did you know?”
Break out your modern, handy dandy Rules of Golf book and as you begin reading you'll find yourself asking the question “is this going to be on the mid-term?” It's confusing. It's complex. It's long. And it's still that way even after the rules were supposedly “simplified” in 2019. It's how we came up with a whopping 21 painful rules incidents that occurred last year alone.
DID YOU KNOW: How the term “birdie” came to be
Of course, the rules weren't always this maddening. In fact, they were actually so incredibly simple that they fit on one page. OK, so it was one really big page with that old-school script writing si..

Welcome to another edition of The Grind where Tiger Woods is the only Tiger King we will ever recognize. That being said, after binging on the Netflix documentary, I can honestly say it's the craziest thing I've ever seen. And I highly recommend watching just so you will understand the deluge of memes it has spawned.
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Who are we kidding? Anyone reading this has already watched it. Well, except my parents. Seriously, give it a try, guys. What else do you have to do? Well, other than read The Grind, of course. We may not have Joe Exotic, but we've got a quirky cast of characters in their own right and some unusual plot lines as well. So let's dive in.
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Michael Jordan’s playground: New playground, that is. Man, I used to love watching that VHS (dating myself!), but now MJ has an actual, sprawling playground with his own golf course called The Grove XXIII (get it?). Our Derek Duncan did a stor..

With the sports world on complete hold, athletes and media have had to improvise to make up for the lack of content. Joe Buck, the play-by-play man everybody loves to hate, has managed to shine during this dead sports period.
To keep his skills sharp, Buck has taken submissions from his Twitter followers of the mundane things they are doing around their homes during the quarantine, and he does play-by-play of these tasks. He's called everything from a dog running around its yard:
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To chickens eating:
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To a kid killing a spider:
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To Justin Thomas' male pattern baldness:
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Is it Patrick Mahomes leading a fourth-quarter comeback in the Super Bowl? No, of course it isn't, but it's still nice to hear Buck's voice as we await the return of sports (if they ever come ba..

Houston Astro Justin Verlander has come a long way since being the worst player on his high school golf team.

Fourteen golfers were disqualified from the first round of an Outlaw Tour event after mistakingly playing from the wrong tee.

If you have a child interested in sketching golf holes, here's your chance to get them in front of practicing architects

As part of the decision, seniors who return to their college teams won't count against a school's scholarship limits

Korn Ferry Tour player Mark Baldwin joins the Golf Digest Podcast to explain why the coronavirus hiatus has come at a particularly difficult time for KFT players.