The two-word text arrived from my friend Scott at precisely 2:32 p.m. Friday. “Quick nine?” After a busy week on the golf-news beat, a quick nine was exactly what I needed to clear my cluttered head.

Proponents of the golf ball rollback argue that professional golfers hit the ball too far, causing the game to place too much emphasis on distance and rendering classic designs defenseless. Those who ...

As the USGA looks to roll back the ball because of the current performance of elite male professionals, a new distance study from Arccos, the leading GPS stat tracker of recreational players, suggests ...