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Golf Equipment
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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Golf Equipment
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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Golf Equipment
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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Golf Equipment
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...
Read more of Element 21 Clubs Continue to Impress
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Golf Equipment
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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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...
Read more of Tom Wishon on Interchangeable Shafts
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Golf Equipment
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...
Read more of Putters - A World of Weird
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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 ...
Read more of Alpha V5 Driver is a Hit
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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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Golf Equipment
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...
Read more of USGA and Manufacturers: A Cozy Arrangement
