Showing 1 - 10 of 21
When a sprinkler raises its head
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 14/01/2026
» Sprinkler heads are immovable obstructions, and you get free relief if they interfere with your stance, swing, or lie, but for line-of-play interference (when it's just in the way of your shot direction), you only get relief from this predicament if a local rule is in effect, requiring the sprinkler head and ball to be within two club-lengths of the green and the green's fringe (fairway height or shorter). Without the local rule, you must play it as it lies or take penalty relief.
Here's what you can and can't dump
Sports, Published on 24/09/2025
» We all get a little panicky when we're faced with a rule that we should fully understand and follow. Our brains short circuit and can't seem to function properly. When a golf ball is in a yellow-marked water hazard, in other words when the water is in front of you and that you have no alternative but to cross. You have two primary options after taking a one-stroke penalty: replay from the last spot you hit from or drop a ball behind the hazard along a line from the hole through to where the ball last crossed the hazard's margin.
Call to move U23 ties out of Cambodia
Sports, Tor Chittinand, Published on 29/07/2025
» The Iraq Football Association (IFA) has officially submitted a request to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to relocate Group G matches of the 2025 AFC U23 Asian Cup Qualifiers away from Cambodia due to rising security tensions between Cambodia and Thailand.
D-day for Thai sports
Sports, Published on 25/03/2025
» The National Olympic Committee of Thailand (NOCT) is set to enter a new era when the presidential election takes place Tuesday.
Suchai has a big plan to boost sports
Sports, Published on 18/03/2025
» Suchai Pornchaisakudom, a candidate for the position of national Olympic chief, unveiled his vision to establish a 200-million-baht annual fund to support national sports associations.
Embrace your style, choose right coach
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 07/08/2024
» You won't learn anything by playing with players who are not as good as you. In competition try to be yourself, don't try to become someone you're not -- in other words if your normal demeanour is loose and joking beware of switching to a serious Ben Hogan type.
Fewer bosses getting the chop this season
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 16/03/2024
» While attention in the Premier League is rightly concentrated on the compelling three-way battle for the title there has been another encouraging development in the top flight which has possibly fallen under the radar. It is the relative lack of managerial casualties.
Just ordinary! When 'Billy the Horse' saved Wembley match
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 03/06/2023
» Despite the two big Manchester clubs reaching the FA Cup final for a combined 31 times, this afternoon at Wembley will be the first time United and City have actually met in the final.
Son eyes 'another miracle'
Sports, Reuters and AFP, Published on 05/12/2022
» DOHA: World Cup favourites Brazil are racing to overcome injuries to key players as they prepare for their last-16 match against South Korea on Monday, after a heavily changed side lost 1-0 to Cameroon on Friday night.
Norman's rebel golf league role robs him of Open invite
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 01/05/2022
» The following R&A statement was released soon after Greg Norman expressed his wish to play in this year's British Open at St Andrews: "The entry terms and conditions for The Open stipulate that a champion must be aged 60 or under or have won the championship in the previous 10 years to be exempt from qualifying. That remains the case for the 150th Open, and we have no plans for any additional exemption."