College golfers can start grabbing their pens.
The USGA announced Tuesday afternoon that it will begin waiving most name, image and likeness breaches of its Rules of Amateur Status for NCAA-eligible golfers. This decision will bridge the gap between last week’s NCAA announcement and Jan. 1, 2022, when the USGA and R&A are scheduled to put into effect their modernized amateur rules.
“We have kept this pretty focused, looking at roughly 20,000 college golfers," Craig Winter, the USGA’s senior director of Rules of Golf and Amateur Status, told GolfChannel.com shortly before the announcement.