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Phil Mickelson: Rules Czar?
Phil doesn't make the rules, and maybe that's why he has found gripes with several of them. Mickelson exploited the USGA and PGA Tour settlements with Karsten Manufacturing to play wedges with non-compliant-but-approved-for-play grooves earlier in the year. His mockery/protest of the grooves...
USGA Finally Speaks on Groove Controversy, Phil's Crusade
Though I've been doing some communication with the USGA in light of this grooves controversy, I had not broached the subject at much depth with the USGA's Senior Technical Director - and the man in Phil's crosshairs - Dick Rugge. Gary Smits did, though, and got a few comments from Rugge about the...
Callaway, Mickelson Using Wedge Controversy in Vendetta Against USGA
Ping Eye 2 wedge (Sam Greenwood/Getty Images) Don't make any mistake about it: Phil Mickelson's decision to put two decade-old Ping Eye 2 wedges into his bag this week at the Farmers Insurance Open has nothing to do with performance. After all, despite the shape and sharpness of the Ping Eye 2's...
What Grooves Do and How the USGA Measures Them
During my trip to the USGA testing facility in Far Hills, NJ, USGA Senior Technical Director Dick Rugge explains the impact that grooves have on golf clubs. He also explains the two ways that the USGA measures golf club grooves for compliance with the rules of golf. I'll have more from the trip...
USGA's Dick Rugge On The Grooves Hullabaloo
In recent days, there has been some serious media coverage paid to the story emanating out of the Callaway camp about the USGA's rejection of a submission from the company for a set of irons for Phil Mickelson. Golfweek's Adam Schupak reported that USGA Senior Technical Director Dick Rugge went...
Bridgestone is Shaking Their Groove Thang
Remember quite some time ago when we told you about a Ping patent application filing that may well be the response to the new grooves regulations? Well, apparently Bridgestone didn't read it. They filed a patent application yesterday that is almost the exact same thing as what Karsten...
BREAKING: PGA Tour Will Not Delay USGA Grooves Implementation
PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem has announced that the Tour Policy Board did not take action to delay implementation of the USGA & R&A's new grooves regulations to 2011. The PGA Tour will continue along the process of implementation for January 1, 2010. "I concluded that delaying at this...
The PING Release On Grooves is Easy to Debunk
If you're a conspiracy theorist, you're probably thinking that this entire grooves campaign was orchestrated on purpose by Acushnet and other manufacturers as a way of (1) prolonging the inevitable and (2) making the USGA look bad. Leave that aside for a moment and take a look at the this press...
9 Fascinating Golf Stories of 2008 - #6: The USGA Steps Up
Here at Waggle Room, we're going to do the cliche thing around this time of year and do a countdown of the top such and suches of the year. For us, we're going to do the 9 golf stories from the year that fascinated us. The USGA really stepped it up this year. It had been in the doldrums after...
I Like This Jim Vernon Guy
Jim Vernon is the new President of the USGA and the USGA website conducted an interview with him for this month that wasn't especially revealing, but made me like him even more than when he was first announced. In the piece, he talks about the success of the 2008 year for the USGA, Open setups,...
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