If you read this column regularly, you probably would think I don’t care much for the PGA Tour, but that’s not exactly true. I just don’t...
I made another visit to “Oz” yesterday, as I took time out from my business trip to Dallas to look inside a PGA Tour Superstore. As...
One of the most misunderstood concepts involved in golf club design is that of “CG,” or “center of gravity,” also “center of mass.” While this particular...
I have conducted numerous surveys of golfers over my 40-year golf industry career, because I have always believed that if you want to know what people...
I ran across an article this past weekend from March of 2020, which identified the irons used by the top ten players in greens in regulation...
I want to thank so many of you who have sent me emails with suggestions for topics I might dive into in future columns – please...
As promised in last week’s post about basic chipping technique, this week let’s move back to that dreaded “half wedge” range; I get so much feedback...
First of all, thanks to all of you who read and gave last week’s post such high marks. And for all of you who have sent...
Last week, I asked for you all to send me your ideas for topics to address in my weekly blog and so many of you came...
The fact is, we’ve all chosen to play what is quite possibly the hardest game ever devised. But the good news is that there is always...
I’m betting a lot of you feel like I do about 2020–it can’t be over and behind us fast enough. This time last year, as we...
This week, I’m going to wrap up my review of your feedback from the survey we posted a few weeks ago. As I said then, and...
One of the continuing trends in golf clubs – particularly drivers – is the pursuit of increasingly lighter shafts; this obsessive goal has given us the...
Well, another Masters has come and gone and, as always, left me with some observations and ponderings that I thought I would share. I hope you...
I think what makes putting so frustrating and difficult is that we put lots of pressure on ourselves to make “everything”, because it seems like the...
In talking with golfers, I often ask questions about what is the best part of their game, and what is the worst. The answers I get...
One of the most fun things about being a golfer is that we all want to get better–hit drives longer and straighter, iron shots that find...
Almost all golfers wear a glove, but most don’t realize that a close inspection of your glove can tell you a lot about your golf swing...
If any of you watched much golf on TV this past weekend, you could have seen a complete contradiction of what golf was, is, and has...
I’m betting most of us are pretty happy that we finally are into the early stages of another football season. Here in Texas, this is a...
I’m betting no one saw this coming through all the build up of how Winged Foot was going to be a “true” U.S. Open test –...
Based on the feedback I got last week, I really missed my mark. I apologize to all who took offense to my “comparison” of the game...
Watching PGA Tour golf has become something I don’t do a lot these days. Why? Well, for two reasons. First, watching the best players in the...
You can watch nearly every PGA Tour event and quickly appreciate the vital importance of distance control with your iron shots. For the most part, these...
In my opinion, one of the most misunderstood areas of the golf swing is the transition from backswing to downswing, but I don’t read much on...
Having written a blog and responded to hundreds of questions about wedge play, one question I seem to get very often is something like this: “On...
I know you all expect me to always write about wedges and wedge play, but my lifetime in golf and 40 years in the industry has...
In today’s post, I’m going to put on my “respectful irreverence” hat and challenge the notion of “matched” sets of irons that have been promoted to...
This is the part of the swingweight discussion where I expect to get lots of dialog, so here goes. The modern trend in clubfitting seems to...
For the twenty-five plus years, I’ve been in the equipment business, one of the most commonly-asked-about subjects is that of swingweight. It mostly comes up when...
This past week, I was out at our club doing some research on launch angles and spin rates. My “Iron Byron” was our first assistant golf...
One of the keys to constant improvement in our golf games is to look for more and better ways to track our performance. And as you...
I received a particularly interesting question this week from Art S., who said he has read all the tips about how to hit different sand shots,...
Whether you play competitively or not, “pressure” is a big part of this game. Even if we are out for an evening practice nine, when we...
I’ve always been a proponent of having one or more “go-to” shots–those you have full confidence you can pull off whenever you need it. The first...