The only man to serve as head of the R&A, the USGA and the PGA Tour reflects on hard decisions, Ben Hogan's chattiness and the unquestionable sanctity of the Rules of Golf

SI recently polled 72 PGA Tour players—roughly the number who make the cut in a normal week—to gauge their feelings on issues involving the state of the game and other matters. Some of the players declined to answer...

Grandson of a Chicago pol, PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem has cultivated a bland persona, a farsighted strategy and a bloodless backroom style to make a lot of golfers very, very rich—and a few very, very angry

No. 1 Longest 30% of drives found fairway only 60% of time

How a caution-first instructor like Dave Pelz helps a go-for-broke pupil, 2007 Players champion Phil Mickelson, with his game plan

On the condition of anonymity, a PGA Tour pro says that fans may miss Tiger but his fellow pros won't, then picks a winner and tells us why, despite the greens at Sawgrass, the Players is a first-class event

For Brandt Snedeker the Masters was a smile-filled walk in the park, until he began to dwell on the process and the people—especially his mother—cheering him on

Once every year, at the Legends of Golf, the 70-and-over set gets a chance to show it (mostly) still has what it takes

After watching Lorena Ochoa climb to No. 1 and win five times this year, Annika Sorenstam used the Stanford to show she remains a force

Two of the Tour's young guns dueled in a three-hole playoff to baptize the Byron Nelson's testy new layout, with Adam Scott the last man standing