The only official guide to the decisions on the Rules. Since 2000, the Decisions on the Rules of Golf series has sold over 50,000 copies in the UK trade alone. Golf is a $60 billion industry with 30,730 courses worldwide and 57 million golfers. Sales of Field and Outdoor Ball Games books are worth roughly GBP13m a year.

Based in St Andrews, The R&A is golf's governing body and organiser of The Open Championship. The R&A is committed to working for golf and operates with the consent of 138 organisations from the amateur and professional game and on behalf of over 30 million golfers in 124 countries.

---- ETIQUETTE; DEFINITIONS; THE RULES OF GOLF; THE GAME; CLUBS AND THE BALL; PLAYER'S RESPONSIBILITIES; ORDER OF PLAY; TEEING GROUND; PLAYING THE BALL; THE PUTTING GREEN; BALL MOVED, DEFLECTED OR STOPPED; RELIEF SITUATIONS AND PROCEDURE; OTHER FORMS OF PLAY; ADMINISTRATION; APPENDIX I; APPENDIX II; APPENDIX III; INDEX;