If you play golf on a course with a lot of trees, what we're about to describe might sound a little too familar: It's not uncommon to hit a golf ball toward the tree line only to see it disappear into ...

Because players were not able to lift, clean and place their golf balls in the soggy fairways at Quail Hollow Club, the so-called mud balls left them with little control over where their next shot ...

To hear Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele describe the controversy, the PGA is at stake with each fleck stuck to a once-pristine golf ball. Advertisement What is a mud ball, why do they ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – At the 2021 Wells Fargo Championship, Bryson DeChambeau shot 74 at Quail Hollow Golf Club on Friday and ...

A mud ball is exactly what it sounds like -- when mud gets stuck to the golf ball. This can happen when the ground is soft and muddy underneath the turf; the ball will go through the grass layer ...

Heavy rains earlier in the week left the fairways soft, causing mud to accumulate on golf balls. The PGA of America decided against allowing "preferred lies," instead, requiring players to play ...

I think there’s a lot of debate about it, but if the golf ball just went a little shorter, this course would be awesome. Not that it isn’t awesome anyway, but right now, for the distances we ...