Do you know who invented golf? If not, you’re not alone – no one does for sure. Ancient Romans playing controlled fades around Corinthian columns. Chinese hackers practicing chip shots off the Great Wall...
When modern golf balls began being constructed with yards of rubber bands on the inside, the world’s largest rubber manufacturers – tire makers – quickly got into the game. Goodrich, Goodyear, Firestone, Dunlop, and...
There are two clubs that golfers typically maintain a special relationship with: the putter and the driver. Players can spend years searching for just the right version of either club before settling into the...
Hybrid Golf Clubs Explained By definition, a hybrid is “a thing made by combining two different elements.” In golf, those two elements combined to create a golf club with the best playability characteristics of...
The History of Callaway Golf The buzzword in today’s business world is “disruptor.” Investors are all on the lookout for the next idea that will revolutionize an otherwise business-as-usual industry. The founder of Callaway...
Until Coburn Haskell and Bertram Work showed up on the golf scene in 1889, the game had been played for the better part of 400 years with balls fashioned from boiled goose feathers stuffed...
One of the most common things heard from touring professionals about the mistakes they see amateurs making is that the average golfers are not playing the right golf clubs for their games. When pros...
This week’s question – why do irons have different length shafts? Do you have a better answer than, “That’s the way they always have been.”? If not, remember that’s what folks were saying about...
In an average round, a PGA Tour professional will hit about 12 greens. That leaves plenty of work for the short game. Depending on that week’s course a pro will carry three or four...
In the summer of 1899 golfers opened their copies of Golf Illustrated magazine and were introduced to the newest gimmick in the sport – the Simplex Golf Glove that D.M. Meldrum & Co. of...
