{"id":109134,"date":"2026-02-20T00:11:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/aberg-pioneer-debuts-new-pga-rule-for-driver-damage\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:11:58","slug":"aberg-pioneer-debuts-new-pga-rule-for-driver-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/aberg-pioneer-debuts-new-pga-rule-for-driver-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c5berg, Pioneer: Debuts New PGA Rule for Driver Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00c5berg Makes Golf History with a New Rule<\/h2>\n\n\nIn a historic moment for golf, Ludvig \u00c5berg and his caddie, Joe Skovron, became the first to take advantage of a 2026 rules update. This novelty allows for the immediate replacement of a damaged club.\n\nThe incident occurred on the 18th hole during the third round at Pebble Beach. \u00c5berg, after sending his tee shot out of bounds on the right side of the par 5 hole, noticed a crack in the face of his driver.\n\nThe update to Local Rule G-9, implemented in early 2025, allowed for replacement in the event of a visible crack. However, players were required to keep the spare driver in the locker room.\n\nThis year, the PGA Tour requested a modification that would allow players to carry a spare driver head in their bag and change it on the course if the club was damaged.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>They sent changes to the rules at the beginning of the year and one of them was that you no longer had to keep [the replacement] in the locker room. Before, someone had to get it for you. Now you can carry it in the bag, and if your driver is considered damaged, you can put that one in. I had the spare in the bottom of the bag.<\/p><cite>Joe Skovron<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nSkovron explained that this rule is especially useful for players with great power and high speeds, who use increasingly thinner club faces.\n\n\u00c5berg requested the presence of an official, the crack was approved, and Skovron installed the replacement. If it weren&#8217;t for this, \u00c5berg would have had to use his 3-wood on the next tee shot, and the driver could not have been replaced until near the clubhouse.\n\nPGA Tour rules official Steve Rintoul called what happened with \u00c5berg a &#8220;perfect example of why we pushed to change the local rule.&#8221;\n\nRintoul added that the previous method of replacement was &#8220;archaic&#8221;.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c5berg Makes Golf History with a New Rule In a historic moment for golf, Ludvig \u00c5berg and his caddie, Joe Skovron, became the first to take advantage of a 2026 rules update. This novelty allows for the immediate replacement of a damaged club. The incident occurred on the 18th hole during the third round at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2448,8588,626,2582],"class_list":{"0":"post-109134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-driver","9":"tag-ludvig-aberg","10":"tag-pga-tour","11":"tag-rules"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}