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Jon Rahm has pulled out of the DP World Tour Championship, despite having a chance to win the Race to Dubai for the second time in three years.

Scottie Scheffler pitched in from 55 feet for birdie on the 14th hole, holed a 10-foot birdie on the next hole and avoided mistakes down the closing stretch to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Houston Open.

Jim Furyk shot a 6-under 65 on Saturday to take the third-round lead in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, putting him in position to win the PGA Tour Champions season points title.

Nelly Korda started with two birdies and finished the same way Saturday en route to a 7-under 63 that gave her a share of the lead with Lexi Thompson on another low-scoring day at Pelican Golf Club.

Mizuki Hashimoto of Japan holed out from the fairway for eagle that sent her to a 4-under 68, allowing her to make up a 3-shot deficit and win the Women's Amateur Asia-Pacific on Saturday to earn spots in two majors.

Underdogs Joachim B. Hansen and Francesco Laporta share the lead heading into the final round of the Dubai Championship.

Kirk Triplett shot a 7-under 64 to move into the lead Friday while Jim Furyk remained in contention for the season title with a 67 in the second round of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

Martin Trainer was in rare territory Friday. Not only did he play well enough to stick around for the weekend, he found himself leading the Houston Open.

Jennifer Kupcho and Lexi Thompson share the lead in the Pelican Women's Championship heading into the weekend.

Defending champion Antoine Rozner claimed a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Dubai Championship.

If Tiger Woods is going to return to competitive golf from his February car crash, Justin Thomas says he believes the 15-time major winner will have to feel like he can "play well."

The PXG 0211 Z is designed for less skilled or lower swing speed golfers.The new lineup includes a driver, fairway, hybrid and hybrid irons.Available now.

The pitch for the new PXG 0211 Z was simple and straightforward. “I would love to send you a set of clubs for someone in your life who is golf-interested and has a very low skill level,” the email read.

I had but one thought …

“Honey …”

A little background here: My wife has been threatening to take up golf for a few years. A time or two, she’s asked me to get her clubs and, once or twice, I almost did. Ultimately, I didn’t and I’m none the worse for it. But when the opportunity arose to try clubs explicitly designed for the golf-interested with very low skill, something just felt right. In hindsight, I shouldn’t have said a word. I could have saved the clubs for her birthday. She’d never have known the difference. Total lack of foresight on my part.

Marc Leishman, Russell Henley, Talor Gooch and Luke List shared the lead Thursday in the suspended first round of the Houston Open, with List still on the course when darkness stopped play.

Phil Mickelson shot a 6-under 65 while season points leader Bernhard Langer battled through a balky for a 68 in the opening round of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

Leona Maguire hit every fairway and took only 24 putts on Thursday to finish at 8-under 62 for a two-shot lead in the Pelican Women's Championship.

Denmark's Joachim B. Hansen eased into a two-shot lead after the opening day at the Dubai Championship on Thursday as he signed off for a flawless 63 at Jumeirah Golf Estates.

Q3 Financial Reports – Key Takeaways

Big Q3 sales numbers for Acushnet, even bigger numbers for CallawayCallaway’s $826 million in sales is a company record, paced by TopgolfAcushnet sales hit $521 million despite a drop in ball salesCallaway expects to top $3 billion in sales in 2021

If the Q3 financial reports for golf’s two top companies tell us anything, it’s this:

It’s a one-horse race, baby.

Callaway and Acushnet have battled neck and neck in terms of overall size, sales and profits. But with Callaway merging with/acquiring Topgolf this year, it’s no longer even a contest.

The top line tells the story: Acushnet is reporting Q3 sales of $521.6 million. A nice eight-percent jump over Q3 of last year and a full 25 percent better than the pre-pandemic Q3 of 2019.

Callaway? Try $826 million in Q3 sales.

Rory McIlroy has switched back to long-time coach Michael Bannon, who is now allowed to travel to the United States from Northern Ireland following COVID-19 restrictions.

Technology in the advancement of the golf ball design over the past 70 years has been revolutionary for the game of golf. But, you need to take advantage of the technology that fits your game. Your swing speed is the key factor in determining the ideal ball for your game, so you should choose wisely.

In the 1950’s, golf balls normally ended their life with a deep cut through the cover. As a kid I spent hours cutting off the skin of those damaged balls, finding the end of the single strand of elastic and running out hundreds of yards of elastic banding to get to the rubber core of the ball. I was amazed at the elastic stretching and wrapping process that must have been used to create those balls.

More recently balls are made from multiple cores of rubber with various formulations for durability and flexibility. One manufacturer tried to change the manufacturing concept by using a metal ball bearing for the core of the ball. The PGA never approved that design even though the manufacturer argued that it had superior features of length and control over other balls. In my experience I could never get that ball to draw and constantly hit fades with it until I deepsixed it in a pond.

You may have seen slow motion videos where a club deforms a ball at the point of impact, but this video shows a 150 Mile Per Hour impact of a ball on a steel plate. It’s incredible that the ball returns to a round shape after this impact.

I included this video to help you understand that you need a swing speed of at least 100 MPH to compress the 3 part Titleist Pro V-1 golf ball. Bryson DeChambeau has a swing speed of 133 MPH. The typical swing speed of 20 to 50 year old golfer can be over 100 MPH. That’s the minimum swing speed needed to benefit from the 3 part Pro V-1.

 

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