Jamie Wallace

Jamie Wallace is the Manager of Rules Education & Digital Content for the USGA. He played college golf at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he majored in English. He was hired by the USGA in 2015 and oversees educating golfers about the Rules as well as making the Rules more easily accessible with multiple digital tools.

Articles by Jamie Wallace

• Rules of golf: Provisional ball

  Thursday, May 03, 2018

  The GCAA is partnering with the USGA, represented by Jamie Wallace, to do a feature on the Rules of Golf focusing on common situations that players encounter. Each month, we plan to highlight a specific Rule or Rules situation that is relevant to college golfers or one that is often misunderstood. We will highlight what the Rule says and how it is applied to the situation at hand. This month, Jamie takes a deeper look at Rule 27-2, playing a provisional ball.

• USGA Rules: Water hazards

  Thursday, March 01, 2018

  Hitting a ball into a water hazard is one of the most common Rules scenarios that golfers encounter during a round. And while most golfers know the basics of their relief options, there is a little more to it than many realize. So let’s run through a brief refresher course on water hazards.

• USGA Rules: Nearest point of relief

  Thursday, November 02, 2017

  ​The GCAA is partnering with the USGA, represented by Jamie Wallace, to do a feature on the Rules of Golf focusing on common situations that players encounter. Each month, we plan to highlight a specific Rule or Rules situation that is relevant to college golfers or one that is often misunderstood. We will highlight what the Rule says and how it is applied to the situation at hand. This month, Jamie takes a deeper look at what you might think is a simple concept: the nearest point of relief.

• USGA Rules: Relief for an unplayable ball

  Friday, September 08, 2017

  Rule 28 allows you to take relief for an unplayable ball anywhere on the golf course except when your ball lies in a water hazard, where the water hazard Rule applies.

• USGA Rules: Playing a wrong ball

  Wednesday, August 09, 2017

  In this month's Rules of Golf feature, let's take a look at what happens when you accidentally play a wrong ball. While we all know this happens occasionally in recreational play, you might think it would never happen at the highest levels of the game. The video above from the 2014 U.S. Open at Pinehurst shows this is not the case.

• USGA Rules: When golf balls collide

  Thursday, July 06, 2017

  The GCAA is partnering with the USGA, represented by Jamie Wallace, to do a feature on the Rules of Golf focusing on common situations that players encounter. Each month, we plan to highlight a specific Rule or Rules situation that is relevant to college golfers or one that is often misunderstood. We will highlight what the Rule says and how it is applied to the situation at hand.

• USGA Rules: Dropping zones

  Wednesday, June 14, 2017

  Dropping zones are not actually covered in the 34 Rules of the game, but are found under the optional Local Rules section of Appendix I. These areas are added to a golf course, typically through the use of white paint, at the discretion of the committee in charge of the golf course or the competition.

• USGA Rules: When your ball strikes various objects

  Wednesday, May 10, 2017

  ​The GCAA is partnering with the USGA, represented by Jamie Wallace, to do a feature on the Rules of Golf focusing on common situations that players encounter. Each month, we plan to highlight a specific Rule or Rules situation that is relevant to college golfers or one that is often misunderstood. We will highlight what the Rule says and how it is applied to the situation at hand. This month, Jamie is discussing different situations when your ball strikes various objects.

• USGA Rules: Accidental movement of a ball on a putting green

  Thursday, April 13, 2017

  You may have heard about the Rules Modernization initiative that the USGA and The R&A have undertaken to make the Rules of the game more consistent, simple and fair for all golfers. One of the Rules changes that has been under discussion for many years as part of this initiative involves the accidental movement of a ball on the putting green.