Rule Changes on the PGA Tour

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Golf, Education, Sports

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🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

With the start of a new PGA Tour season, it's a good time to catch up with rule changes for this year's play. In this episode, Lou and Mark talk about changes to preferred lies and embedded ball rules, unintentional ball movement, obstructions and internal OB, and distance measuring devices. Where to find us: Mark Crossfield's weekly newsletter: https://www.crossfieldgolf.com/subscribe Mark Crossfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/4golfonline Mark Crossfield on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/4golfonline Lou Stagner's weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.loustagnergolf.com/subscribe Lou Stagner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouStagner Greg Chalmers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregChalmersPGA The Hack It Out Golf Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HackItOutGolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	New rules coming to the PGA tour for 2026.
0:03.7	Lou has the rules in front of him.
0:05.1	He's going to read them out to us.
0:06.2	We're discussed if they're good or bad or if we don't really care.
0:09.9	I guess they're just trying to make sure.
0:12.0	I guess they have player meetings and debates about if the rules are fair or not,
0:16.5	and they're constantly trying to evolve their product to be right for everyone,
0:20.3	is why they make
0:21.1	these rule changes.
0:22.6	So these are PGA tour rule changes, not rule changes for everyday listeners who are playing
0:27.9	because they do actually play on slightly different rules, believe it or not.
0:31.8	Unless we have PGA tour players listening to us.
0:34.3	We do.
0:34.8	If you play on the PGA tour, these apply to you?
0:36.9	Did these apply to Gregory as well, Gregus?
0:40.7	I don't know if these are, I don't know if this is Champions Tour.
0:44.4	Is there any rules about being able to inject things into dead muscles or anything?
0:48.6	Because then it will definitely is applying to the old boys.
0:52.5	Biomic, Nothing like that.
0:54.5	You know,
0:54.7	strap on things that give their back better movement.
0:57.3	Any of those in there?
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