The clock is ticking for anchored putter users. The USGA and R&A have ruled that rule 14-1B, the ban on anchored putters, will go into effect Jan. 1, 2016. The new rule was proposed on Nov. 28,...

GolfWRX is live from Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, site of the PGA Tour’s Crowne Plaza Invitational. Last year, Zach Johnson edged Jason Dufner for a one-shot win despite a two-shot penalty for failing to...

Driver: Callaway RAZR Fit (8.5 degrees) Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI 3 Wood: Callaway RAZR Fit (15 degrees) Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI Hybrid: Callaway X Hot Pro (18 degrees) Shaft: Matrix HM3 “Black Tie” Utility: Callaway X Utility...

It’s not about how one starts but how one finishes. If Keegan Bradley and Sang-Moon Bae didn’t understand this old adage before the Byron Nelson Championship this week, there’s a good chance they do now. Bae shot...

GolfWRX is live from the TPC Four Season Resort in Irving, Texas, site of the 2013 HP Byron Nelson Championship. In 2011, Keegan Bradley edged Ryan Palmer in a playoff to win for the first time on...

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...

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...

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...

When I made my Masters picks a month ago, I mentioned how conservatively Tiger Woods has been playing off the tee. I felt that would work against him at Augusta, where distance usually takes reign over the...

They say that pressure can make diamonds, but it can also burst pipes. It seemed for a moment that Sergio Garcia was finally going to shine by besting Tiger Woods head to head for a meaningful title....

Great athletes have an inner source of strength, a deep reservoir of emotional control and self belief that mere mortals cannot seem to find. It is a rarer-than-rare quality that very few ever know, but beautiful to...

Golf, cruel?  Really? Standing on the 17th tee Sunday afternoon at TPC Sawgrass with his second Players Championship trophy tantalizingly within reach, Sergio Garcia was in command of his own destiny. Birdies on the Nos. 11, 13...

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...

Professional golf never ceases to provide fascinating endings and this year’s edition of The Players did not disappoint. The Players provided a startlingly stark contrast in fortunes for its principal players the first 54 — heck, 70...

Driver: Nike VR Tour (9.5 degrees) Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana White Board 73X Fairway Wood: Nike VR_S Covert 3 wood (15 degrees) Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana Blue Board 103 X Fairway Wood: Nike VR_S Covert 5 wood (19 degrees) Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana Blue...

Nike Golf’s new line of VR_S Covert drivers and fairway woods have been the most talked about new offering from the company in its history. But for many golfers, the differences between the company’s “Performance” and “Tour”...

A casual golf fan who occasionally enjoys watching final round coverage of a PGA Tour event must have a skewed opinion about the lives of professional golfers, namely, that anyone with an oversized staff bag is living...

GolfWRX is live from Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., home to the PGA Tour and site of its crown jewel, The Players Championship. The Players is played on TPC Sawgrass’ Stadium Course, and has the biggest purse ($9.5...

It wasn’t a mastery of the slow and much maligned greens at Quail Hollow that propelled Derek Ernst to victory. Neither was it the assistance of Phil Mickelson, who leaked fuel as he headed through the Green...

By the numbers, No. 17 on The Players Stadium at TPC Sawgrass would rank as one of the least remarkable holes on the PGA Tour. It measures just 130 yards and is one of the largest greens...

Age: 22 Birthplace: Woodland, California Education: University of Nevada Las Vegas Years on the PGA Tour: 1 Highlights: Derek Ernst was a 4-time All-American at UNLV. Current sponsor(s): Ping Driver: Ping i20 Loft: 9.5 Degrees Shaft: Ping TFC...

PGA Tour rookie Derek Ernst needed one playoff hole to defeat David Lynn to win the Wells Fargo Championship Sunday at Quail Hollow Golf Club in Charlotte, N.C. Ernst made par on the first playoff hole, the...

GolfWRX is live from the Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, Va. — site of the LPGA’s 2013 Kingsmill Championship. Last year’s winner Jiyai Shin shot rounds of 62-68-69-69 (16-under) on Kingsmill’s River Course to tie Paula Creamer, who...

The USGA exists “for the good of the game” and the PGA has authored several initiatives in a concerted effort to “grow the game.” Noble aspirations, indeed. However, where the proverbial rubber meets the road is you....

Over the course of the 50 years, 30 of which I’ve spent teaching golf, I have seen many methods come and go. From “Square to Square” to “Stack and Tilt,” from Alex Morrison’s left-handed game to Tommy...

Odds are if you’ve played golf for any amount of time you’ve heard the hackneyed phrase “hit down on the ball to take a divot.” Just hearing that phrase makes me cringe. At least once a week...

Rickie Fowler, the defending champion of this week’s Wells Fargo Championship, caught up with GolfWRX on-course reporter Sara Brown to talk about the clubs he has in the bag this week at Quail Hollow. Make sure to...

GolfWRX is live from Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C., site of the Wells Fargo Championship. Last year, Rickie Fowler broke through for his first PGA Tour win in a playoff with D.A. Points and Rory McIlroy,...

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...

If the Zurich Classic had been a horse race, the track conditions would have been classified as “sloppy,” with multiple inches of rain falling on TPC Louisiana in the New Orleans suburb of Avondale during the week....

GolfWRX on-course reporter Sara Brown caught up with Saturday’s 2013 Valero Texas Open leader Billy Horschel to talk about what he has in the bag this week at TPC San Antonio.   Billy Horschel: What’s in the...

Every week we take hundreds of inside-the-ropes photos on the PGA Tour. But we’ve narrowed down the best-of-the-best pictures from this week’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans in our “Photos of the Week” slideshow (click here to...

UPDATE: April 29 Things are heating up.  Today, a black TaylorMade R1 showed up on the USGA’s conforming driver list.  This is the first sign that there may indeed be a black version of TaylorMade’s flagship driver...

Say what? Yes sir, we have seen it all now. TPC Louisiana, site of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans had a special grouping on Wednesday. The “Duck Dynasty” guys played golf with Bubba Watson in the Zurich Classic Pro-Am....

GolfWRX is live from TPC Louisiana, site of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in Avondale, La. Several former champions are in this year’s field — Jason Dufner (2012), Bubba Watson (2011), Jason Bohn (2010), Jerry Kelly (2009),...

Golf is supposed to be fun. Even for the highest level professionals, it is still supposed to be fun. The biggest enemy of a golfer and his scorecard is not the wrong equipment, horrible swing flaws, slow play...

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...

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,...

Driver: Cleveland Classic 290 Loft: 10.5 Degrees (Stamped 9 Degrees) Shaft: Miyazaki Kusala Indigo 56 X-Flex (46 inches) 3 Wood: Cleveland Launcher FL Loft: 14.25 Degrees (Stamped 14 Degrees) Shaft: Miyazaki Kusala Indigo 72 X-Flex Hybrid: Adams...

Graeme McDowell captured his second win on the PGA Tour, defeating fellow U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson in a one-hole sudden-death playoff at the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, S.C. McDowell’s final-round...