Feb
05

Ping K15 Iron Review

Ping K15 Iron Review  Typical of any game improvement iron, the Ping K15 irons have a wide sole, thick top line and slight offset.  As result, the club looks super easy to hit.  In addition, the K15 head features a steel cavity with lightweight titanium face.   The dull steel finish looks great on the course …

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Feb
03

John Daly: He’s Back – We Think

Make a list of the ten headlines you never expect to hear or see again in your life concerning the game of golf. One of them very well could be, “John Daly in contention at Masters.” Well, you’re going to hear and see it anyway, although with a significant qualification. John Daly is, indeed, in …

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Feb
03

Sandra Gal: Define “Hot.”

It seems as though every sport, profession and association has taken on a preoccupation with which of their members is the “hottest.” What used to be left to calendar companies, beauty pageants and all things Hollywood has spread to every corner of modern life. Soon, sites will be launched announcing the National Association of Quilters …

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Feb
01

Extreme Golf

Go ahead and tell us that as golfers, we aren’t really athletes. Go on depicting us as bland, fair-weather, high-life sports people. Draw all the distinctions you want between the well-mannered men and women of the club-house and cage fighters, extreme skiers and sumo wrestlers. We don’t mind. We know the truth. We know that …

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Jan
31

TaylorMade Rocketballz Irons

The new RBZ irons progressive head shape offer hollow long irons a cavity back middle irons while the short irons and wedges are a smaller and more compact clubhead design.  In fact, the short irons hardly appear a game improvement iron.  The entire set looks visually appealing and easy to hit.  The color combination is …

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Jan
28

Abu Dhabi: Tiger at the HSBC

Get an eyeful of the Abu Dhabi Golf Club, and you’ll see one of the new international faces of the golf world. Where Augusta was carved from the Azaleas and Pebble Beach from the sea, this showpiece of golf luxury was fashioned out of the desert. Designed by Peter Harradine, and opening in 2000, the …

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Jan
24

Bobby Locke: South African Golf

As golf buffs, we can name a few high profile players from South Africa…Retief Goosen, Bobby Cole, Ernie Els, Fulton Allem, etc.  These and several others have an ongoing presence on the world stage of golf, but what else do they share in terms of lineage? Who was their inspiration? In large part, it was …

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Jan
20

Dubious Golf Honors: What’s Really Going On?

It’s a very nice game, played by very nice people, shooting very nice scores at the worst – right? Wrong. Just guess at how much expensive hardware lies at creek and pond bottoms (Charley Hoffman’s putter-what did he use the rest of the round?). What are they really saying after a bad shot as the …

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Jan
20

Erik Compton: Science on Tour

Growing up in a world of burgeoning science, those of my parents’ generation were in awe as the first kidney transplant was performed in 1953. I remember my childhood introduction to the polio vaccine, our first answer to a disease that was at one time thought invincible. We were and continue to be duly impressed …

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Jan
17

Golf Writers and Commentators: Heady Stuff

All smugness aside, golf writers and broadcasters often speak with a tiny edge of “know-it-allism,” and they’re usually not entirely out of bounds in doing it. After all, it isn’t the writers, but the game that just insists on that little twist of pomp, especially when the subject gets anywhere near the British Isles. Some …

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