Just some random thoughts on the golf year drawing to a close.
Another manager has departed the camp of Michelle Wie apparently due in part to the marvelous job of helicopter parenting by BJ and Bo. They’ve decided to follow her to Stanford, apparently unwilling to disconnect the umbilical reattached after the discovery she was quite [...]
Archive for October, 2007
E Schuster - Oct - 18th
Martin Anderson - Oct - 16th
Twelve weeks after I paid for a new driver and with my contact having disappeared off the face of the earth, I had had enough of waiting for him to call and tell me what the hell was going on. I was going to do some calling of my own. The options I had to [...]
R Hetzel - Oct - 15th
The USGA recently announced that on January 1, 2008 a new rule would be in effect allowing different types of adjustability for golf clubs.
How will this new rule affect manufacturers and OEM’s? GolfWRX recently asked Dr. Benoit Vincent, Cheif Technical Officer for TaylorMade Adidas Golf about how this new rule would influence TaylorMade clubs in [...]
R Hetzel - Oct - 11th
Believe it or not, there is more available to us by way of golf trips than Myrtle Beach, the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail or even venerable Pinehurst.
Sometimes travel time and distance, not funds dictate where you can play. I recently met a few buddies for a weekend of golf in Pennsylvania for the third [...]
K Vakamudi - Oct - 11th
Annika declines, Michelle is back, and controversy again ensues between the two at this week’s Samsung World Championship.
The Samsung World Championship was meant to bring the 20 best women golfers in the world together, but heads began to turn when the field was formally announced earlier this week. Michellie Wie who has only broken par [...]
Martin Anderson - Oct - 9th
After more years service that I care to remember, I decided that my venerable old Cleveland driver should be retired. It’s so many generations behind the current crop of drivers that I almost expect to see it telling other clubs to get off its lawn before taking its teeth out and having a nice nap.
The trouble [...]
R Hetzel - Oct - 8th
When the opportunity to test drive a brand new Ping G10 4 wood (17 degrees) arose, I jumped at the chance.
Naturally, it appeared to be a good fit since I consider myself a Ping guy (I loyally play Ping ISI Berillyium Nickel irons; I’ll never switch!) and I have been searching in vain for a [...]