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Why Phil Doesn’t Dominate (and Other Secrets of the PGA Tour Putting Stats)
Guys who love sports join rotisserie baseball leagues and fantasy football leagues, and when golf season comes around they plunk down money on a PGA Tour pick-your-pro pool. What’s a little funky in this general pattern is the granular, detailed performance …
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Nike VR Pro Earns Another Thumbs Up
Granted, the writer for TheAPosition we are linking to with this Review post is a mind-controlled resident of Portland, Oregon, the obvious ground zero for Nike Golf’s disseminaation of karma, mojo and a good vibe. But still, Jeff Wallach, tester …
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Remember the Aldila VooDoo? The RIP is a Worthy Successor
Shaft maker Aldila did a beautiful job supplying the OEMs and thrilling Wall Street golfers who bid up its stock in the early heyday of sheet-wrapped composite shafts. Casey Alexander, one of those Wall Streeters who played high-level tournament golf (still …
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Energetic Armor–Something You Wear to Play Out-of-Your-Mind Golf
Depending where you play most of your golf (Michigan? Maine?), you may be one of those battle-ready types who says: “There is no bad weather, only varying wardrobe requirements.” Eh-heh, sure. If you wish to adopt more of a rough-and-ready …
Posted in GEAR REVIEWS Tagged Energetic Armor, EnergyCare, golf performance apparel, golfwear, Peter Andraes Leave a comment
JumboMax Oversized Grips Get the Seal of Approval
Exactly why the golf grip is the diameter it is, nobody really knows. Just always been that way–for too long, perhaps. After all, people have bigger hands than they did when the standard grip O.D. was settled on. Over at …
What Happens When a Mid-80s Shooter Goes to the (Taylor Made) MATT
My colleague at TheAPosition.com, Jeff Wallach, has been known to finish one of his gigs as a whitewater rafting guide and play golf barefoot with six clubs as a transition back to civilized existence. He gets enough pleasure from golf that …
Miura C-Grind Series 1957, Artifact of Japan’s Clubmaking Art
Here in the new, stricter era for iron groove configuration, Terry Moore of affiliate website TheAPosition.com has a cool story of Japanese golf craftsmanship to relate, and some thoughts on the merits of owning two (identical) sand wedges, one for practice and one for …
Posted in GEAR REVIEWS Tagged golf wedges, Katsuhiro Miura, Miura C-Grind wedges, Miura Golf, Phil Mickelson Leave a comment
Knocking off Winter Rust with the Orange Whip
Having demo’d many a swing trainer in his long career, Jim Frank of TheAPosition.com, our mighty affiliate site, views these practice aids skeptically. But a golfer is a golfer and the feel of a true swing–generated by a training product …
Mizuno JPX800 Pro Irons Work Wonders for a Scot Who Got Fitted
Courtesy of David J. Whyte, a noted golf writer and videographer based in the UK and a contributor to TheAPosition.com, our affiliate website, here’s a review for you of the new Mizuno JPX800 irons. Whyte didn’t just grab these irons off …
The Allen Edmonds Golf Shoe Spikes Interest
There’s a saying in the top-quality realm of the men’s shoe business: Two things you shouldn’t economize on are your mattress and your shoes, because if you’re not in one of them you’re in the other. And yes, from both products you want support and …
TaylorMade: Busy, Busy, Busy
Somebody’s been working overtime at TaylorMade.
In the past few weeks, the company has been in the news wherever you turn—and turning out more new products than anyone else, as well.
Not all of the releases are about new sticks. It was recently …
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Latest on GPS and Laser Range Finders from a Digital Yardage Freak
To be more specific, here’s what you get with the new Bushnell Hybrid, according to a writer for TheAPosition.com, Larry Olmsted. Hint: It’s a best-of- both-worlds summation. As you may know from reading Larry’s golf columns in USA Today, he doesn’t miss …
