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By now you might have heard about Anne Van Dam snapping her driver on a gallery rope while riding back to the 18th tee for the first hole of a playoff with Smilla Tarning Soenderby and Lisa Pettersson at the KPMG Women’s Irish Open. A horrible bit of luck at an inopportune time to be sure. Van Dam teed off with her 3-wood and did manage to reach the green in two on the par 5, before losing to Soenderby’s walk-off eagle in the Ladies European Tour event, but what you might be wondering is what op…
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Bettinardi introduced its HLX 5.0 Forged wedges last November and the company has extended that line with a new limited-run oil-rubbed bronze finish. This PVD finish, gives this line a distinctive appearance to go along with the current chrome and graphite PVD finishes. The new offering will be available in lofts ranging from 48 to 60 degrees in both the C grind and RJ grind options. The RJ grind—named after company founder Robert J. Bettinardi—features higher bounce with more heel and toe relie…
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Perhaps one of the most curious equipment switches right before a Ryder Cup occurred in 2004 when nine days before the matches at Oakland Hills C.C., Phil Mickelson left Titleist for Callaway. Although the split wasn’t unexpected (Titleist had a history of not digging deep for star players and had let players such as Tiger Woods and David Duval walk), the timing was eye-raising with Mickelson nearing the end of his best season, having won his first major at that year’s Masters. He reportedly wan…
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With one round to play at the Fortinet Championship, Sahith Theegala said, “I feel like I’m just scrambling my butt off a little bit.” It was more of the same on Sunday en route the 25-year-old’s first career PGA Tour win. Holding on a five-shot lead at one point at Silverado Resort’s North Course, Theegala kept the momentum going with a big up-and-down from 36 yards for par on the par-4 13th hole. He followed it with a huge right-to-left sweeper from 20 feet for a birdie on 14 that left little…
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What you need to know: Better players have different demands than the rest of us when it comes to irons. Although no one wants to hit it short, they’ll sacrifice a couple yards for better distance control and a tighter dispersion. And while most everyday players benefit from less spin to reduce wayward shots, those more skilled want additional spin in order to be able to maneuver the ball because, well, they can. It is with that player in mind that PXG introduces its latest iron—the 0317 T. A sh…
4 months ago
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It’s amazing in the equipment world how a “sky is falling” moment can sometimes become not so big a deal as time moves on. One such instance is the rainsuit debacle that befell the U.S. Ryder Cup team during the 2010 matches at Celtic Manor in Wales. You remember that, don’t you? Those black Sun Mountain rainsuits with bold striping on the sleeves and players’ names on back were all the talk during Day 1. Heavy rains plagued the early action, and word began to leak out that some U.S. players wer…
4 months ago
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Most everyday golfers can’t relate to tour players when it comes to their equipment. They swing at super human speeds and well, we do not. They hit the ball often in the center of the face and, well, we do not. They’re able to shape their shots and manipulate their hands around the greens and, well, we do not. One area, however, where we can learn from the game’s best regarding equipment, however, is their approach to their grips. Here’s three tips from the tour that we all should implement rega…
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Match play brings out a sentimentality of sportsmanship. Handshakes and hats off at the conclusion of the match and putts generously conceded during it. Yet if the last Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits in 2021 set a tone, it’s that you might not see much of the latter. Ironically, in a year when the Nicklaus-Jacklin Award was created to celebrate perhaps the most famous conceded putt of all time that created a tie in the 1969 Matches, several players got lock-jaw when their opponents were inside t…
4 months ago
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Wyndham Clark, reigning U.S. Open champion and member of the U.S. Ryder Cup team, has played a lot of pro-am golf over the past few years. He has observed things his amateur partners do or don’t do that prevent them from playing their best golf. In a recent sit-down with Golf Digest, Clark revealed three common pitfalls that everyday golfers should avoid. Carrying wedges with too much bounce Although conventional wisdom says, “Bounce is your friend,” Clark sees that concept as more of a Band-Aid…
4 months ago
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Carl Yuan was making some noise at the Sanderson Farms Championship, seeking to gain his firt PGA Tour title—and he was doing it with a set of irons not on the market, Callaway’s Apex Pro 24 model. Although Yuan came up a stroke short of the five-man playoff (despite an electrifying hole out from the fairway on the par-4 17th), there was no denying that prototype season has arrived on the PGA Tour. The fall portion of the tour’s schedule has habitually been used as a testing ground for players t…
3 months ago
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Collin Morikawa ended a 27-month winless streak at the Zozo Championship, using a final-round 63 to grab his sixth PGA Tour title at Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club in Japan. A front-nine 30 gave him a three-shot cushion and Morikawa cruised from there. Controlling his ball into the greens has long been Morikawa’s calling card and to do that you have to have faith in your golf ball to perform consistently. Morikawa made a ball switch at the BMW Championship in August from TaylorMade’s TP5 t…
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