Golf is often perceived as a sport that uses up less energy and gives a lighter workout. It's true that the primary movements in golf revolve around the golf swing, while the rest of the time golf…
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…
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 …
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&…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…