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by Chris Henry on April 8, 2009
Frank Thomas is baiting the bear again.
Thomas is a past Technical Director of the USGA and he has taken the august governing body of golf to task repeatedly since he left their employ.
He was opp...
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by Chris Henry on January 22, 2009
Frank Thomas has taken on the USGA again in his weekly Frankly Golf e-newsletter.
A reader writes to ask Frank about the square groove rule change announced by the USGA last August.
The reader is ...
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by Chris Henry on June 3, 2008
Courtesy: Alpha Golf
Last winter, I wrote about Alpha Golf's V5 driver that the company sent to me.
Their rep, Joe Simon, offered me a variety of lofts and having absorbed enough of Tom Wishon&...
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by Chris Henry on April 15, 2008
Courtesy: Element 21
In November of 2006, a Russian cosmonaut whacked a golf ball off the International Space Station.
It was a publicity stunt, as you can well imagine, for a company called Element...
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by Chris Henry on March 27, 2008
Frank Thomas has some interesting information in his weekly "Ask Frank" email series.
He answers a letter from a reader who wonders if testing was ever done to determine the difference in...
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by Chris Henry on February 20, 2008
Nickent Manufacturing has become the latest club maker to join the interchangeable Shaft revolution, the new technology that took the PGA Merchandise Show by storm last month.
Thanks to a rule chan...
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by Chris Henry on February 15, 2008
Courtesy: Hookedongolfblog.com
The science of metallurgy has taken golf equipment forward in leaps and bounds in the past 10 years.
The use of titanium and other even stranger sounding metals, cutti...
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by Chris Henry on February 12, 2008
I've just returned from a short, 4-day golf break in Florida.
For a Canadian struggling through a very snowy winter where I am re-evaluating global warming as just a theory after all, it was a ...
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by Chris Henry on February 7, 2008
We have grown used to golfers who can nut the ball 300+ yards off the tee at will.
And most of us know from our own experience with club fitters or just from listening to the commentators that launc...
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by Chris Henry on February 1, 2008
I was whacking some balls at a nearby golf dome the other day with my teaching pro and buddy, Mark Greenwood from Swing Machine Golf Canada.
Over a coffee later, we talked golf, of course, and the s...
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by Chris Henry on January 24, 2008
Has the USGA created a monster?
frank thomas, the former technical director at the USGA has a very reasoned take on the latest trend in equipment: interchangeable shafts.
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by Chris Henry on January 20, 2008
Last summer, the USGA announced a rule change that allows recreational golfers to interchange shafts on their clubs. Essentially, the USGA wants duffers to have the advantages of the tour pros - min...
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by Chris Henry on January 8, 2008
Courtesy: Alpha Golf
At the end of December, I received an email from Joe Simon at Alpha Golf, a division of Kent Sports.
Joe had read my post on Andrew Coltart's issues with length off the tee...
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by Chris Henry on December 10, 2007
Courtesy: Royal Melbourne Golf Club
What happens when you hand a hickory-shafted wooden head club to a modern-day tour pro?
One thing that happens is the latest chapter in the ongoing saga of how t...
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by Chris Henry on November 15, 2007
Andrew Coltart's Average Driving Distance: 268 Yards
It has become an ongoing issue in professional golf: length off the tee.
For some golfers, usually the top money earners, distance with the...
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by Chris Henry on October 29, 2007
Courtesy: AP Photo
There is a class-action lawsuit before the courts in Canada that argues that Canadians pay much higher prices for new cars than Americans do.
The timing of this suit is interesti...
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by Chris Henry on October 27, 2007
Courtesy: Vega Golf
"I happen to be the descendant of a Samurai knight. And here, there is an interesting story".
So starts a Letter of Introduction from the president of Vega Golf, Akira...
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by Chris Henry on October 22, 2007
Courtesy: Golf punk Magazine
In his 2005 book, The Search for the Perfect Golf Club, Tom Wishon - the guru of club designing - takes the USGA to task for limiting the COR of drivers and shutting the...
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by Chris Henry on October 6, 2007
One of the more popular shows on The Golf Channel last season was Fore Inventors Only, a "contest" show where serious amateur inventors displayed their ideas to help golfers play better gol...
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by Chris Henry on October 5, 2007
frank thomas has a very appropriate newsletter this week. And it comes on the heels of the two-part interview with club designer and custom builder, Tom Wishon here on eagleparbirdie.com.
Frank ans...
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by Chris Henry on September 13, 2007
I was standing the parking lot of a driving range the other day, chatting with Mark Greenwood, Director of Swing Machine Golf Canada. Mark has just finished some instruction with my wife while I bea...
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by Chris Henry on August 8, 2007
Courtesy: Mike F. Campbell
My blogging colleague, patent lawyer David Dawsey, has unearthed another nugget in his daily gold-mining expeditions.
David writes Golf-Patents.com in which he documents w...
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by Chris Henry on July 6, 2007
Courtesy: GolfPunkOnline
Remember when Nike and Callaway introduced their square head drivers? The other equipment makers pooh-poohed them; one manufacturer said it would NEVER create a square headed...
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by Chris Henry on July 5, 2007
I have said it before and I'll say it again: if you haven't bookmarked Frank Thomas's golf site, then do it now.
For those who don't know (or are old and have simply forgotten), Frank...
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by Chris Henry on May 11, 2007
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 abou...
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by Chris Henry on May 7, 2007
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 slick...
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by Chris Henry on April 21, 2007
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 gol...
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by Chris Henry on April 16, 2007
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 h...
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by Chris Henry on April 14, 2007
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 non-co...
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by Chris Henry on April 13, 2007
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 t...
