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Zak Kozuchowski

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Zak is the Managing Editor of GolfWRX.com. He and his team cover golf's most important stories. You can follow Zak on Twitter @ZakKoz.

 

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  Do you need a $1000 shaft?

  For $1000, a golfer can buy a lot of clubs — a driver, a few fairway woods and possibly even a few wedges. But unless that golfer went through a custom fitting, the $1000 worth of clubs...

  • Posted 12 hours ago
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  Rose breaks through with a counter-balanced putter

  To the untrained eye, the putter Justin Rose used to win the 2013 U.S. Open looked much like the black-and-white blade putters he’s used in the past. But even though it looked almost the same, it was...

  • Posted 2 days ago
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  Aldila ‘Tour Blue’ and ‘Tour Green’ shafts

  When designing its newest line of shafts, the “Tour Blue” and “Tour Green,” Aldila sought inspiration from its most successful platform, the NV shafts it released to tour players more than 10 years ago. The NV shafts...

  • Posted 7 days ago
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  SuperStroke U.S. Open putter grips

  You’ve said it to yourself before: If I makes this putt, I win the U.S. Open. You, me and nearly every other serious golfer in the world has played the role of a soon-to-be major champion at...

  • Posted 9 days ago
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  Six players switch to TaylorMade’s R1 Black in Memphis

  In the days leading up to the start of the FedEx St. Jude Classic, golf fans were treated to a fury of buzz about the debut of TaylorMade’s new R1 Black driver. “Who was testing it?,” they...

  • Posted 11 days ago
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  Tech Talk: KBS C-Taper Lite iron shafts

  With the name C-Taper Lite, most golfers will assume that the biggest difference between KBS’s newest shafts and the company’s original C-Taper shafts is the weight. But even though the new shafts are between 5 and 15...

  • Posted 13 days ago
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  Bettinardi Kuchar Model 1 Putter: Editor Review

  Pros: Very stable during the stroke, and unbelievably good looking at address. The F.I.T. Face feels soft, and the Pewter PVD finish is both beautiful and durable. Cons: With arm lock putters, length is flexible. But golfers will need...

  • Posted 15 days ago
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  Prototype Project X Graphite Shafts Spotted

  Check out our photos of True Temper’s new PX prototype graphite driver shafts, which are being tested by tour players this week at the FedEx St. Jude Classic at TPC Southwind. The shafts have textured bands reinforcing...

  • Posted 16 days ago
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  K. Bradley changes to prototype Cleveland irons

  Keegan Bradley changed irons this week at the Memorial Tournament, trading out his trusty set of Cleveland CG7 Tour irons for a set of Cleveland’s new 588 TC irons. If you haven’t heard of the TC, or...

  • Posted 18 days ago
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  Choi buys off-the-rack irons for the Memorial

  PGA Tour pros don’t often buy clubs off the rack, especially players who have won PGA Tour events. Those golfers can call just about any equipment manufacturer in the world and have a set of custom clubs...

  • Posted 21 days ago
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  Vokey opens its Tour Department to the public

  Call it WedgeWorks on steroids. Titleist has announced that the custom wedge grinding services it offers to its tour players will be available to the public starting June 19. Titleist calls the program “WedgeWorks Hand Ground,” and it...

  • Posted 22 days ago
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  GolfWRX goes inside ‘The Oven:’ Nike Golf R&D

  There’s barbed wire on the fences that surround “The Oven,” the research and development center for Nike Golf – one of hardest-to-visit places in the golf industry. But that’s just to keep the cows off the driving...

  • Posted 23 days ago
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  Nike VR Forged Wedges

  Nike’s new VR Forged wedges offer three distinct sole grinds to give golfers with different short-game styles and course conditions more choices from around the greens. Standard Grind Nike’s “Standard Grind” was inspired by Tiger Woods, and is the...

  • Posted 27 days ago
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  McIlroy leaves agent, will form his own company

  Just a few months after changing every golf club in his bag, World No. 2-ranked golfer Rory McIlroy will be making another huge change. The Irish Independent was first to report that McIlroy will leave his agent Conor Ridge...

  • Posted 33 days ago
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  Jason Day’s RocketBladez Tour 2 Iron

  Two things that shouldn’t go together are 2 irons and 300-yard shots, but that’s exactly what Jason Day says he can do with his new TaylorMade RocketBladez Tour 2 iron, which he used in Round 1 of...

  • Posted 34 days ago
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  First Look: Wilson Staff FG Tour Prototype Irons

  Check out the photos below we shot of Wilson Staff’s latest prototype iron, the FG Tour M3 Forged. According to Michael Vrska, global director of golf R&D for Wilson Staff, the irons are still in the development...

  • Posted 34 days ago
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  First Look: Fourteen Golf’s new “Type 6″ utility irons

  Check out the photos below of Fourteen Golf’s “Type 6″ utility irons that we spotted this week at the HP Byron Nelson Championship. The Type 6′s are still in the prototype phase, but according to Fourteen’s Director...

  • Posted 34 days ago
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  KZG releases GF X Driver

  KZG’s new GF X Driver aims to take some of the guesswork out of custom fitting, providing fitters two different weight ports and seven different weights that create 128 different ways to optimize a golfer’s launch conditions....

  • Posted 34 days ago
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  Nike TW ’14 golf shoe

  Tiger Woods wasted no time breaking in the newest version of his Nike Free-inspired golf shoe, the TW ’14. Woods wore the shoes during all four rounds at The Players Championship in route to his fourth win...

  • Posted 37 days ago
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  Cobra unveils Limited Edition Tour Trusty Wedge

  Cobra has announced a limited-edition version of its new “Tour Trusty” wedge, a 1600-club release that gives golfers the chance to play the company’s tour-inspired wedges several months before their full launch in the fall. The wedge...

  • Posted 37 days ago
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  Exotics CB5 Fairway Woods: Editor Review

  Pros: These might be the cleanest, classiest-looking fairway woods on the market. The titanium faces provide plenty of ball speed and forgiveness, and the stock shaft options are solid. Cons: Four different lofts, but no adjustability. Did we mention...

  • Posted 40 days ago
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  Ping Nome TR putter spotted on tour

  Ping’s new line of Scottsdale TR, or “True Roll” putters feature variable depth grooves in the face that are deeper in the center and more shallow in the heel and toe to help golfers hit their putts...

  • Posted 51 days ago
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  Rickie Fowler testing Cobra’s new “Tour Trusty” Wedge

  We spotted Rickie Fowler testing a soon-to-be released version of a new Cobra wedge called the “Tour Trusty” at the Zurich Classic this week. Check out the photos we snapped below, and click here to see what...

  • Posted 54 days ago
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  14-year-old Guan makes 2nd-straight cut

  Just because you’re 14 years old doesn’t mean you can’t be a cut-making machine on the PGA Tour. That’s what the golf world is learning from Tianlang Guan, a 14-year-old Chinese amateur golfer who made the cut...

  • Posted 54 days ago
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  Dufner to use a mini version of A. Scott’s putter?

  Jason Dufner has changed putters a few times in the last year, but it looks as though he’ll make his most radical putter change this week at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, where he’s the defending...

  • Posted 56 days ago
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  Adam’s Scott’s long putter spotted in a short version

  Adam Scott used a 49-inch version of Scotty Cameron’s Futura X Prototype putter to win the Masters. Not even two weeks later, Cameron has supplied the PGA Tour with a smaller, lighter version of Scott’s putter. The...

  • Posted 58 days ago
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  Fujikura MCI Hybrid Prototype Shafts

  Steel or graphite? In recent years, the answer for the best players in the world has been simple — graphite in their woods and hybrids and steel in their irons in wedges. But Fujikura’s recently launched MCI,...

  • Posted 58 days ago
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  Cabrera, Scott: Playoff for Masters title

  Angel Cabrera and Adam Scott have finished at 9-under, and will playoff for the 2013 Masters title starting on hole No. 18. Cabrera needed a birdie on No. 18 to tie Scott, who made a lengthy birdie...

  • Posted 66 days ago
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  Guan receives slow-play penalty, on cut line

  Tianlang Guan only took 74 strokes on Friday, but his score said 75 because of a slow play penalty he was accessed on the 17th hole of his second round. According to ESPN’s Gene Wojciechowski, Guan was asked by a...

  • Posted 68 days ago
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  The golfers Tianlang Guan beat in Round 1

  Tianlang Guan, the youngest golfer in history to play in the Masters, opened with a 73 in Round 1 — shattering the expectations many had for the 14-year-old who earned an exemption to the tournament with his...

  • Posted 69 days ago
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  Tiger puts a Covert 3 Wood in play at Augusta

  Our boots on the ground at Augusta National have confirmed that Tiger Woods is using a Nike VR_S Covert 3 Wood in Round 1 of the Masters, which he used to hit his first tee shot of...

  • Posted 69 days ago
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  Mickelson confirms plan to use “Phrankenwood”

  Phil Mickelson confirmed that he will use a small-headed driver called a “Phrankenwood” at the Masters this week in a Tuesday afternoon press conference. The club’s official name is the Callaway X Hot Phrankenwood, which was rumored to...

  • Posted 71 days ago
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  Phil’s Secret Weapon: The “Phrankenwood”

  Here is the photo of the “secret club” Phil Mickelson said was being built especially for Augusta National this week, the “X Hot Phrankenwood.” The Phrankenwood appears to be an even larger version of Callaway’s X Hot...

  • Posted 73 days ago
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  Marco Island Marriott: Resort Review

  One golf course is good, but two golf courses are better. That was the judgment of the Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort, which already owned one 18-hole course, The Rookery at Marco, in nearby Naples, Fla. But...

  • Posted 75 days ago
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  Guerin Rife to release “Guerin” line of putters

  Guerin Rife is best known for the line of putters that carry his last name. But he’s releasing a new line of putters called “Guerin” that he hopes will familiarize golfers with his first name. Rife’s original...

  • Posted 84 days ago
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  Callaway X Hot Pro 3Deep Fairway Woods

  Callaway’s X Hot Pro 3Deep is the third and lowest-spinning version of Callaway’s X Hot line of fairway woods to hit the PGA Tour this year. Three different models might seem like overkill, but according to Luke...

  • Posted 85 days ago
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  Mickelson has a new putter, grip at Bay Hill

  Phil Mickelson started 2013 with a cut-down SuperStroke 21-inch putter grip on his Odyssey gamer, which better accommodated the “claw” grip he started using in 2012. A few weeks later, Mickelson ditched it for one of Odyssey’s...

  • Posted 90 days ago
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  The inside scoop on TaylorMade “tour heads”

  There’s three TaylorMade R1 drivers. Yes, you heard that right. The driver that TaylorMade touts as being able to “tune to any loft, any look and any flight” is currently on the USGA’s list of conforming driver...

  • Posted 96 days ago
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  OptiShot Golf Simulator: Editor Review

  Pros: OptiShot is simple to install, set up and use. It’s also extremely portable. And because it can be used with a golf ball, foam ball or no ball, it can make just about any space where...

  • Posted 98 days ago
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  GolfWRX adds Sara Brown as on-course reporter

  Symetra Tour player Sara Brown has agreed to become an on-course reporter for GolfWRX.com, the world’s largest online golf community. Brown is best known as a two-time contestant on the Golf Channel’s Big Break (Sandals Resorts and...

  • Posted 108 days ago
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