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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 USG...
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 ...
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. Th...
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 w...
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 an...
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 ...
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 ...
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