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Forget 2012! Wedge Armageddon Comes 12/31/2011!
AHHHH! THE SKY IS FALLING! WE ARE JUST 406 SHORT DAYS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD!1111!! On January 1, 2011, equipment manufacturers will no longer be able to produce wedges that do not ...
My Interview With Tom Watson: Grooves, The Road Hole, and - Yes - Turnberry
Tom Watson has had an amazing 2009. He nearly won the Open Championship at Turnberry. He almost had the Senior Players Championship in hand. Yet in spite of all of the attention, he ...
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...
How Annika Sorenstam's Career Almost Never Got Started
At the USGA Museum's photo exhiibit on Annika's USGA career, the Swede talks about how she was almost disqualified from her first US Women's Open win in 1995. It was also her first career LPGA T...
Breaking: Jim Hyler Named New USGA President
The USGA has nominated a new candidate to take over their presidency from Jim Vernon. He is another Jim - Jim Hyler. The USGA Nominating Committee has nominated Hyler for a one year term a...
Loving The Walker Cup For What It Is
This past weekend, the United States put its third consecutive walloping on Great Britain & Ireland in the 42nd Walker Cup at Merion. The Walker Cup - predecessor to the Ryder Cup - is...
The Walker Cup Team Is All Set Now
After Byeoung-Han An's 7 & 5 crushing defeat of Ben Martin to become the youngest US Amateur winner ever at age 17, the USGA had some relatively easy decisions on their hands for the final two spo...
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...
What A Trip to Funkytown and Twentyunderparville
Coming off of what may have become a crushing playoff loss in the Senior British Open at Sunningdale last week, Fred Funk hopped on a plane across the Pond and landed at Crooked Stick in Indiana with ...
How Tiger Woods Got His Grooves Back - V Grooves, That Is
Steve Pike is reporting that Tiger Woods may already be playing irons that are compliant with the 2010 grooves regulation that PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem has said will go in place as scheduled....
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