Courtesy: Frank Thomas If you haven't looked at Frank Thomas's website, Frankly Golf, then I encourage you to do so. Thomas is the former technical director of the USGA who is outspoken about...
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Top Flite Golfers: Courtesy, Florida State Pikes You have to love marketing. Marketers are always working on ways to get your attention and then convince you to buy. Marketers - and their even slicker...
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Nike World HQ, Beaverton, Oregon I received an email on Thursday from David Dawsey, patent lawyer and creator of Golf-Patents.com golf blog. I interviewed David recently on patent filings in the golf...
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In my recent interview with patent lawyer and golfer, David Dawsey, he talked about the patents that had been filed by ball makers like Callaway and Bridgestone. If you have looked at his site, you...
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Big Bad Sumo2 The golf consumer is "thumbing the nose" at Nike. It has been several weeks since the clubmaker announced it was recalling its new Sumo2 Square Head drivers because of...
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The outcome of golf tournaments - particularly the majors - is hugely important to a lot of people. It's important not just to the winner or the caddy who gets a share of the prize money or the...
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Courtesy: Titleist The USGA's recent ruling on grooves has a lot of amateur golfers wondering how it impacts them in future tournaments. Specifically, they wonder if they'll be forced to buy...
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I don't think I have ever heard of a golf club being recalled. But it happened on Friday. Nike, according to reports, is ordering all retailers to pull its brand new Sumo2 off the shelves. The...
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I made an interesting discovery yesterday. I learned that my off-the-shelf TaylorMade driver works pretty well for my swing. And I learned that after visiting McMahon Golf, a family-owned company in...
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Club makers are sitting on a goldmine and they don't know it. At least, they don't act like they know it. Golf Digest is reporting the results of a survey taken by its sister magazine, Golf...
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Camilo Villegas Steroid golf. That's what the professional game could become if something doesn't change. Here's the landscape right now. Equipment has added 20 yards or more to the...
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I'm afraid golf equipment manufacturers don't make a lot of money from me. In January, I wrote that, after more than 25 years of playing the game (albeit, sporadically for a number of those...
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Courtesy: Antiqueathlete.com When I was in high school, in grade 9, we were forced to study English history. Actually, it probably wouldn't have mattered whose history we studied. Force was...
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Courtesy: Callaway Can a golf club be too good? For the pros? That might be the case with the new square head drivers that several manufacturers have developed. The square head isn't a marketing...
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Courtesy: Element 21/NASA There appears to be another revolution occurring in golf equipment. First, steel shafts gave way to graphite and we began to appreciate the lightness, strength and improved...
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Courtesy: GolfSmith The golf grip. It's often overlooked and taken for granted. At least, I never gave mine a second thought. But a study conducted several years ago surprised me when I read it....
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Courtesy: Jazz Golf So, your kid is hooked on golf; he or she has been to a really good junior camp (see yesterday's post) and now it's time to buy some clubs. Where do you begin? Kids are not...
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Courtesy: Golf Town There are some words and phrases these days that are becoming increasingly significant in our vocabularies. In the world of golf, there is perhaps one phrase that says it all:...
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Courtesy: GolfRewind.com Got that Momentus yet? Take a look at yesterday's post, if you're wondering what I'm talking about! Today, we'll continue the conversation about swing aids by...
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Courtesy: Momentus Golf There's one thing that I, you and hundreds of manufacturers around the world have discovered about ourselves. We'll buy anything that might have half a chance of...
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Courtesy: Jazz Golf I decided to upgrade my driver two years ago and bring it in line with modern technology. You don't want to know what I had been using before but it was VERY OLD. Anyway, as...
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Courtesy: Golfindustryonline.com Golf is not an easy game to play. We all know that. It's an on-going battle to get length off the tee and keep the ball in the fairway at the same time. But when...
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