Retired LPGA Star Confesses She Demanded USGA and R&A to Scrap Golf’s ‘Dumbest Rule’ A former LPGA star confesses she reached out to the USGA and R&A to scrap a frustrating rule still dividing golfers

If you’ve ever hit a perfect drive, only to find your ball sitting uncomfortably in a nasty lie, you know the frustration. It feels like an unfair punishment for doing everything right. And no one feels that frustration more keenly than Michelle Wie West, who’s not shy about calling out golf’s “dumbest rule” — the one that forces you to play out of someone else’s divot without relief.