The GolfWRX forums exist so golfers have access to the latest equipment releases, hottest discussions, real equipment reviews, best instruction, new technologies and everything golf you can imagine.

So if you love golf, the GolfWRX forums are your sanctuary.

In the From the Forums weekly feature, we bring you the hottest, most buzz-worthy topics from our forums for your convenience. I’ll be your trusty tour guide to navigate the latest buzz.

Here’s a peek behind the curtain into golf’s sanctuary.

Worst golf equipment trends in recent years?

Like any other industry, particularly those with short product cycles, trends emerge rapidly in golf equipment (and often fade just as quickly).

Arpegge started a thread asking for WRXers opinions on the worst equipment fads in recent years.

Here’s his list…

1. Counterbalanced putters
2. Mini drivers  
3. Multiple sliders
4. Racing stripes on crown
5. Oversized putting grips

What do you think? Agree? Want to defend your counterbalanced putter? Join the discussion.

Graphic image ahead!

Something so obscene words cannot do it justice…

This is just a reminder that there’s a lot of humor in the forums. Thanks GolfMonster09!

Check out the responses to the horror.

The popularity of Scotty Cameron putters

Takeachance68 took a chance and posed a question that’s been debated many times on GolfWRX: Why are Scotty Cameron putters so popular? After some abuse for rehashing the topic, good answers started to trickle in.

Matt J: “Scotty Cameron hit a pretty special niche milling popular designs and encouraging players to play the loft, lie, toe flow, length, and weight that fits their stroke. Success in tour events cemented the deal.”

2bGood: “Start with a top class product (No need to argue if it is the best or overpriced etc, I am simply saying it is good and well made). Then add in great marketing. I do mean marketing in the comprehensive sense – not just ads and endorsement, but pricing, targeting, segmentation etc.

“There are loads of putter with equal or better quality to Camerons, but I think no one touches their marketing.”

TPDawnPatrol:

• Consistent quality
• Lots of exposure on Tour
• Prominent placement of graphics
• Eye-catching headcovers
• Early commitment to milled putters
• Consistently higher price point than the other big brands
• Alignment with Titleist
• First big putter maker to commit to interchangeable weights
• Good marketing in building a brand with a cult-like following
• A bit of good luck with Langer winning a major with a Scotty
• A lot of good luck with Tiger winning all his majors with Scotty’s

What do you think?

Debating Jordan Spieth’s slow play penalty

If you hadn’t heard, the European Tour has laid out new guidelines for dealing with slow play.

Here’s the new rule and what happened. “Basically, players will be subjected to sustained monitoring as soon as their group is deemed out of position. Any player who then exceeds the time permitted to play a shot – 50 seconds if first to play and 40 seconds thereafter – will be issued with a “monitoring penalty”. Two monitoring penalties will result in a fine of £2,000.” (James Corrigan, The Telegraph).

Spieth’s words:

“It was a bit odd. I got a bad ‘monitoring’ time on my putt on the eighth [17th] after they had taken us off the clock and the guys behind us hadn’t even reached the fairway,” Spieth said. “So it didn’t make any sense to me. If I can, I’ll try to wash it away… because it doesn’t affect this round but if I get another one, I’ll get fined and I don’t think there was necessarily a reason to get that bad time. Rory and Rickie [Fowler] were very surprised.”

So, the Spieth group was on the clock, then off, then back on (seemingly without their awareness), and Spieth was warned on the green of his second-to-last hole of the day.

Trivial? A firm statement the European Tour means business?

See what the forum members are saying and offer your take.

The worst weather you’ve played in (and why the heck did you play?)

MtlJeff, one of the GolfWRX forums’ most prolific and entertaining posters, started the thread and recounts his worst weather experience, which came as part of his bachelor party celebrations.

Golfing in late September, Jeff says, he and his buddies ignored the forecast for torrential rain and “decided to drive up anyway because we had plans in the town near the course later in the day anyway.”

No other brave souls were willing to endure the monsoon, and Jeff and his friends were the only golfers on course. “We got basically pelted with rain the entire time,” Jeff said. “They left the course open because it hadn’t rained in a while prior to that day. We were the only people who played the course that day.”

So, why’d they decide to play? While “bachelor party” is a viable explanation, Jeff indicates that the prevalence of libations made the rain much less bothersome.

Have your own worst weather story? Share it here.