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They say that Ben Hogan considered 150-yard stakes and yardages marked on sprinkler heads to be an affront to the integrity of the game. In those days, players figured how far the yardage was...
They say that Ben Hogan considered 150-yard stakes and yardages marked on sprinkler heads to be an affront to the integrity of the game. In those days, players figured how far the yardage was...
There are a couple of ways for a golf manufacturer to add yards to its irons, with one of the easiest being to lengthen the shaft and de-loft the face. You do that and,...
In 1979, Gary Adams started a golf equipment company with a single club – a 12-degree driver cast of stainless steel. The introduction of the metal wood certainly belongs on the Mount Rushmore of...
While arguments over “Who is Number One?” are the lifeblood of sports talk, golf is seldom privy to such discussions. Tiger Woods ruled the sport for 15 years with scarcely a murmur of protest...
When the original Big Bertha was introduced by the German artillery during World War I, it required ten railway cars to move it into position to fire into enemy defenses. The soldiers in the...
The PGA Tour always had a problem after the PGA Championship, the last of the season’s four major events. Though three months of the tournaments remained, most sports fans drifted away towards college and...
“The wrong side of the tracks” is not a term that gets bandied about in golf circles a whole lot. Normally the greatest hardship a young golfer has to overcome is growing up playing...
For years, those who care about such things have been fretting over what will happen to golf when Tiger Woods departs the game and takes all the oxygen in the room with him. Well...
The PGA Championship – arriving last on the golf calendar and being last priority compared to golf’s other majors – also has far fewer memorable moments than its cousins. Most of that is because...
Rick Yutaka Fowler is a professional golfer, known for his investment in the PGA Tour. Once ranked the number one golfer in the world for a total of 37 weeks in 2007 and 2008,...