Stuart Appleby, with eight missed cuts in 13 PGA Tour events this season, has been MIA of late. The 41-year-old Aussie hoped to halt the skid at this week’s Travelers Championship by dusting off the Odyssey White Hot XG 330 …
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Stuart Appleby gives “59” putter another chance
Stuart Appleby, with eight missed cuts in 13 PGA Tour events this season, has been MIA of late. The 41-year-old Aussie hoped to halt the skid at this week’s Travelers Championship by dusting off the Odyssey White Hot XG 330 …
Jack Fleck’s Bulls Eye putter makes a return
With the U.S. Open returning to The Olympic Club for the fifth time in its 112-year history, Jack Fleck has been making the rounds, talking up his stunning upset of Ben Hogan in the 1955 national championship. Fleck, the subject …
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Stacy Lewis credits AimPoint for her putting prowess
Pitching a mini-tantrum after three-jacking a green is not the norm for mild-mannered Stacy Lewis. In fact, the fifth-ranked golfer on the LPGA Tour in putts per greens in regulation (third overall in the world golf rankings) rarely three-putts at …
Golfsmith to continue aggressive expansion after Golf Town acquisition
With the combined Golf Town/Golfsmith retail franchise planning to continue its ambitious expansion strategy, even as the powers-that-be decide what to call the new company, rival golf equipment suppliers have to be at least somewhat anxious about their own futures.
“We’re …
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Carnahan Golf designer leaves Pinemeadow Golf
Chris Carnahan, the creative designer behind his boutique Carnahan Golf brand of putters and wedges, has left Pinemeadow Golf Products Inc. after an unsuccessful bid to purchase his product line from Carnahan’s parent company.
“It was a mutual and professional departure,” …
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Fowler uses pricey new Mitsubishi X Series shaft at Wells Fargo
Rickie Fowler used a prototype Mitsubishi Diamana X Series shaft in a Ping i20 3-wood on his way to securing his first PGA Tour win Sunday at the Wells Fargo Championship, a Ping spokesperson confirmed on Monday. The new shaft, …
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Callaway debuts adjustable Odyssey Flip Face putters
Callaway Golf announced the availability on April 13 of its new Odyssey Flip Face line of adjustable putters.
The putter, which debuted at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando in January, features a patented system that lets golfers easily and quickly …
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Ka-ching! New Motorola ad cashes in on Watson’s Masters win
Motorola Mobility will unveil a new ad on Thursday starring 2012 Masters winner Bubba Watson and the company’s GPS golf tracker, the MotoActv Golf Edition.
The ad, which will run in Golf World tomorrow, features Watson avidly watching his approach shot …
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Having a screw loose has new meaning for Mickelson at the Masters
Too bad Phil Mickelson could not have fixed his wayward tee shots as easily as he tweaked his driver Thursday at the Masters.
Lefty hit such a wicked slice on the same 10th hole at Augusta National Golf Club that derailed …
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Lewis switches putters midway through Kraft Nabisco Championship
I.K. Kim’s devastating miss Sunday night of a one-foot tap-in on the 72nd hole to win the Kraft Nabisco put an exclamation point on one of the major stories of the season’s first major championship.
From former prodigy Michelle Wie’s bagging …
Everything old is new again: Michelle Wie reunites with conventional putter
Michelle Wie’s fling with a belly putter appears to be over. The 22-year-old, full-time LPGA Tour golfer will play this week’s Kraft Nabisco Championship with an old standby — a conventional Nike Method blade, a Nike spokesperson confirmed.
Golf’s first major …
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Furyk’s tinkering leads to Callaway
Jim Furyk may have come up a bit short of his 17th PGA Tour victory on Sunday, but the 2010 FedEx champion certainly won’t blame his equipment for his inability to sink a long birdie putt on the first playoff …
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Titleist introduces new line of Scotty Cameron putters
Titleist is set next month to begin releasing a new line of Scotty Cameron putters. Hoping to cash in on the popularity of belly and long putters, the company’s 10 new flat sticks will feature three mid-length options and two …
Tiger Woods can hit a 2-iron 280 yards (but he still can’t putt)
All eyes have been on Tiger Woods’ balky putter of late, but a longer club in his bag got some love during the first round of this week’s Honda Classic.
Woods split the 16th fairway of PGA National with one of …
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Kuchar takes on Faldo as belly putter wars heat up
While Tiger Woods’ poor putting continues to be the talk of the Accenture Match Play Championship — despite his second-round loss to Nick Watney on Thursday — Hunter Mahan’s flawless work on the greens had gone somewhat unnoticed until he …
Mickelson weighs in on belly putter wars: A ban would be unfair, says Lefty
A day after fellow Northern Trust Open competitor Ernie Els begged golf’s governing bodies to outlaw his belly putter, Phil Mickelson said doing so would be unfair to Els, PGA champ Keegan Bradley, and the scores of tour pros who …
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Callaway announces early release of RAZR Fit driver (VIDEO)
Thanks to Phil Mickelson’s first-place finish in last week’s Pebble Beach National Pro-Am tourney and his on-air plug for the golf club that helped him leave Tiger Woods in his dust, Callaway Golf has moved up the release of its …
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Garrigus adjusting to life with a long putter
With all the talk about long putters, news of one recent convert to the dark side came as something of a surprise. Robert Garrigus, previously known for using the shortest flat stick on the PGA Tour — a 28.5-inch bat …
LPGA golfer Amelia Lewis is a Loudmouth
If you think neon disco balls or rainbow-colored thunderbolts electrifying your golf shorts are just for those guys at your course who pound down the brewskis and drive their go-carts all over the greens, then you’re not keeping up with …
Sun Mountain ClubGlider Journey takes heavy lifting out of golf club travel
Leave it to Sun Mountain to take the heavy lifting out of golf travel bags. The company’s ClubGlider — with easy maneuverability thanks to retractable legs that stow away for travel and their pivoting wheels — has been around for …
Phil Mickelson seeks help for mental miscues
Phil Mickelson told Charlie Rose Monday night that he needed help with his mental game. It would seem so, given that Lefty conceded he was thinking about the 12th hole during Sunday’s final of the British Open before he swung and missed on a 3-foot putt on the 11th that, Mickelson believed, cost him the Claret Jug. And it wasn’t the first ti...
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Was Annika right? After all the hype, is Michelle Wie a bust?
Michelle Wie finished the rain-delayed first round of the U.S. Women’s Open with a 7-over 78. The scorecard for her last six Open rounds would do a hacker proud -- 82-81-75-82-76-78 -- and LPGA Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam and ex-LPGAer and current NBC/Golf Channel analyst Dottie Pepper believe the 21-year-old Stanford student has totally fa...
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Where's the Rory love for 4-time majors champ Yani Tseng?
A golfer completely demolished the field in last week's major championship, relegating the other players to challenging each other for second place. Sound familiar? There are a slew of similarities between Yani Tseng's 10-stroke win at the LPGA Championship Sunday and Rory McIlroy's 8-shot demolition of the best men's golf could throw at him...
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Is it too soon to etch Rory McIlroy's name on the 2011 U.S. Open trophy?
Everyone knows what happened to Rory McIlroy at this year's Masters. Even though the youngster from Northern Ireland blew the 54-hole lead in spectacular fashion at Augusta National, the way he's playing this week at the U.S. Open leads this golf watcher to believe he has the Congressional title sewn up. I mean, just look at these gaudy stats:...
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Stop the presses! Tiger's caddie cheating on him with Adam Scott at US Open!
Let the Tiger Woods tea-leaf reading begin anew. Woods’ long-time caddie Steve Williams will reportedly carry the bag for Adam Scott at next week’s U.S. Open. Does this mean that Woods -- who, as you know, will skip this year's national championship due to nagging leg injuries -- is done for the year, done for good, having more knee surgery...
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Will you Tee it Forward?
The USGA and PGA of America believe most amateur golfers play courses that are too long for their games. To inspire more fun on the course, the golfing powers-that-be have suggested that course operators experiment with an idea long espoused by Adams Golf founder Barney Adams and others -- that is, to urge weekend warriors to play from shorter t...
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Did Players Championship live up to billing as golf's so-called "fifth major?"
The Players Championship seemed to have a little bit of everything: a wobbly Tiger Woods, a furious Phil Mickelson, a diving turtle, the usual splashdowns at the infamous island green, and a playoff. PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem may like fans to think of The Players as golf's "fifth major," but is it really worthy of such acclaim? Of eve...
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Tiger Woods hits first golf balls since Masters; can he even contend at Players?
Tiger says Monday was the first time he hit a golf ball since tweaking his knee and Achilles tendon at the Masters last month. He also played his first (half) round of golf today, when he knocked it around for nine holes in preparation for this week’s Players Championship. With bad wheels and a rusty game, will Woods contend or even make the c...
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Tiger Wood takes another tumble in world golf rankings
Another week on the golf tour, another golfer surpassing Tiger Woods in the Official World Golf Rankings. Paul Casey, who failed to make the cut at last week's Wells Fargo Championship, overtook the idle Tiger Woods to move into seventh place on the OWGR leaderboard. Woods, who'll return to action at this week's Players Championship after lay...
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Should the LPGA grant Lexi Thompson membership status?
The LPGA might have dodged a bullet when Lexi Thompson did not win the Avnet LPGA Classic. The 16-year-old shared the 3rd-round lead, only to cough it up in Sunday's finale. Had she become the youngest golfer ever to win a tour event, however, commissioner Mike Whan may have been under siege to grant Thompson membership even though the big-hitt...
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Injured knee, Achilles knock Tiger Woods out of Quail Hollow
At 35 and with four surgeries on his knee and at least one flare-up with his Achilles tendon (that we know about) on his medical chart, Tiger Woods says he re-injured his knee and Achilles during the 3rd round of the Masters. Because of that and according to his doctors' orders, he has pulled out of next month's Quail Hollow tourney. His ailme...
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Pick Up The Pace! Jim Furyk’s Pre-Putt Routine Drives Me Crazy
PGA Tour golfers Ben Crane and Kevin Na have become the poster boys for slow play, the never-ending bane of golfers everywhere. Meanwhile, Jim Furyk’s exacting/methodical/meticulous/painstaking/maddening/obsessive/scream-inducing (call it what you will) pre-putt routine has been the target of some criticism, but he seems to avoid the same leve...
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Westwood a worthy No. 1?
It’s a revolving door at the top of the Official World Golf Rankings. In February, Martin Kaymer took over the No. 1 position from Lee Westwood, who surpassed Tiger Woods, who claimed the throne for a record five years. Who’s No. 1 seems to raise the hackles of many who wonder if Westwood -- who’s never won a major and reclaimed the positi...
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Tiger charges up Masters leaderboard
Tiger Woods shows flashes of his old self, charging up the leaderboard with a 6-under Friday at the Masters. Should 2nd-round leader Rory McIlroy (10-under) lose any sleep about a seemingly rejuvenated Tiger (7-under, just three shots back), or will the erstwhile No. 1 flame out again before Sunday? After all, Woods hasn't put together four dec...
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Green Jackets tell Rickie Fowler to turn his hat around
As a newbie to the ways of Augusta National Golf Club, Rickie Fowler was reportedly somewhat confused during his first Masters presser Monday when the powers-that-be asked him to turn his golf cap around so the visor faced front. I’m likely showing my age by noting that I think flat-billed hats make the wearers look like doufebags. Be that as ...
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