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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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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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 change...
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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,...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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 -...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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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 beat...
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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...
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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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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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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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