'Inside The Ropes' is the chance for Golf Monthly's expert team to share its honest thoughts on the biggest subjects in the game. This week, we discuss what can be done about golf's distance problem.

MEXICO CITY – The drumbeat had been unmistakable. For months the powers that be had talked of “concerns” over distance gains in recent years and how the impact on the game has been, “horrible.” On ...

A long-standing problem in discrete geometry involving how many pairs of points can be exactly one unit apart has been addressed using an artificial intelligence system developed by OpenAI, according ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The question posed by the legendary Hungarian ...

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the "unit distance conjecture" had just been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The distance players have been hitting the golf ball has been increasing steadily for decades, and the debate regarding what to do ...