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Ed Travis

Ed Travis is a national award winning golf journalist and has had a life long love affair with the game. He has competed in tournament golf both as an amateur and as a senior professional and though his competitive days are behind him he still plays regularly and carries a handicap of 2. He and his wife live in suburban Orlando.

Net Return a great practice alternative in inclimate weather

GEG image There are certain times of the year in large parts of this country when hitting balls into a net are about all the golf you can expect. You might rather be on the course but… So when I first heard Net …
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Get some GolfSense

GEG image Here’s another example of golf and technology at work. With GolfSense and an iPhone you can have a 3-D analysis of your swing. The GolfSense device (suggested retail price $129) also works with an iPad and is being sold by Apple …
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Vaseline on the Clubface

I’ve been accused of being an equipment geek. I’m not sure about that but I am interested in modern technology and materials as they are expressed in the engineering and design of clubs. In other words when you put Vaseline on …
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Webb's clubs

I heard a lot of noise about the long putter being used to win again but not a word about Simpson's other clubs. Particularly the fact he played a Titleist 909D3 off the tee and it hit the streets in 2009 - three years ago.
Following about half the winners this year the longest iron in his bag was the 4-iron but more interesting is his i...
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TaylorMade ATV Wedge

They are promoting this as something special - essentially one wedge with a fairly wide sole that has lots of toe relief and a fair amount of center weighting. TMaG has never had a show stopper wedge to go with the rest of their popular woods and irons so if this works that may change.
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Bubba's pink driver

PING is capitalizing on Bubba Watson's Masters' victory by selling 5,000 pink G20 drivers similiar, at least in appearance, to Bubba's and making a charitable donation of $50 per driver for a total of $250,000. From early reports the $400 drivers are selling very well.
Since its' inception the company has always done a great job ...
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The 913 could be really nice though I still like their old style clubhead compared to the newer shapes
I think you would have it right if you switched the TMaG RBZ and the Adams and I also like the Titleist 910D2/D3 even though they are two years old...
I heard a lot of noise about the long putter being used to win again but not a word about Simpson's other clubs. Particularly the fact he played a...
On the question of whether Tiger is back or not, his ability to close a major is what's at question. Obviously he can close at Arnie's place, etc...
In the press room after round 4 Tiger noted that he hit the ball really well but wound up the final two days with a lot of "tweener" shots...not ...
Brian - Yogi Berra said, "90% of the game is half mental." That's true in baseball and surely true in golf. Something or things change day...
It does work though we (my teenage playing buddies) didn't know why.
Brian - no doubt the RAC wedges were and in fact still are great except they don't of course have conforming grooves. It will interesting to see&n...
They are promoting this as something special - essentially one wedge with a fairly wide sole that has lots of toe relief and a fair amount of cente...
PING is capitalizing on Bubba Watson's Masters' victory by selling 5,000 pink G20 drivers similiar, at least in appearance, to Bubba's and makin...