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USGA Meets With Ping, Doesn't Get Anywhere
Yesterday at an undisclosed location in Dallas, USGA met with Karsten Manufacturing to talk about a potential solution to the Ping Eye 2 wedge loophole debacle. (This is why people just use "-ga...
Augusta to Allow Grandfathered Ping Eye 2s at the Masters
In what struck me as a surprising revelation, Steve Elling reports that Augusta National will contest the Masters by USGA rules - including the loophole that allows for players to have Ping Eye 2 wedg...
Stats Show Minimal Impact of Grooves on 2010 PGA Tour
With all of the talk about grooves, wedges, grandfathering, and lawsuits, there has not been much conversation about the tangible impact of the new grooves regulations on the PGA Tour in 2010. T...
Tom Watson & Phil Mickelson: Did Running Their Mouths Affect Them?
In the last several weeks, pro golf has had seemingly a record volume of off-course trash talk. From grooves to Tiger, the topics have been in stark contrast. The players doing the trash t...
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 Ph...
Follow-Up Questions For Phil After His Presser Yesterday
After phoning into Commissioner Finchem's press conference yesterday, I was fortunate enough to get a twofer and listen to Phil Mickelson's presser. It was a passionate and, at times, testy conf...
Why the Tour, USGA, and Ping Need to Work Together
In Tim Finchem's presser this afternoon, he outlined three options that he feels the Tour has in terms of addressing the Ping Eye 2 loophole created by the Tour and USGA settlements with Karsten conce...
Tracking Which PGA Tour Players Are Using Ping Eye 2s
Moments ago in his press conference, PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem mentioned that five players out of 218 so far have put the Ping Eye 2s into play in 2010. In light of who may be putting th...
Rory McIlroy Wants Every Week to be Unfun Like a US Open
Phil Mickelson's big "f-you, USGA" stunt this past weekend at Torrey Pines has apparently encouraged all of the other whiners in pro golf that don't want to lose their flop shot to speak out in public...
Callaway CEO Fellows: Groove Fight "Just A Distraction"
Callaway CEO George Fellows was on Bloomberg TV this afternoon to talk about his company's prospects for rebounding in this economy. Of course, the 800 pound gorilla in the room - Phil and the P...
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