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Ping, PGA Tour Agree to Eliminate Ping Eye 2 Loophole
Ping (Karsten Manufacturing) and the PGA Tour have come to an agreement that will end the grandfathering/loophole of the pre-4/1/90 Ping Eye 2 wedges. The Tour just released a statement within the last hour to announce the change. From the release: PING Chairman and CEO John Solheim announced...
Paddy Harrington Suggests PGA Tour Abstinence* Promise on Ping Wedges
Padraig Harrington's Tuesday press conference at the Northern Trust Open was a revealing read on a man who has clearly spent significant time deliberating this grooves issue. Harrington made several, almost-off-the-cuff sounding suggestions for how the Tour could get around the loophole without...
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...
Reading Into Commissioner Finchem's Grooves Decision Today
On its surface, it would seem that the decision today by PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem to not delay implementation of the new grooves Conditions of Competition is cut and dry. Upon further inspection, though, the entire process really is intriguing. It's not completely certain how this whole...
Ping May Be Beating the New Grooves Rule
David Dawsey maintains Golf Patents.com - THE site if you are an equipment geek looking to see what's coming next before it comes. Forget the TaylorMade R9 for a minute and take a look at this patent application from Ping's parent company for new iron grooves. This is some wild stuff. The...
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